Gender and the civil rights movement
By: edited by Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith.
Contributors: Ling, Peter J. 1956-; Monteith, Sharon.
Edition: 1st pbk. ed.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women civil rights workers -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; African American women civil rights workers -- History -- 20th century.; Sex role -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Sexism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Originally published: Gender in the civil rights movement. New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
Table of contents: title: Gender and the civil rights movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith; title: Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and 1957 Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective / John A. Kirk; title: Sex machines and prisoners of love : male rhythm and blues, sexual politics, and the Black freedom struggle / Brian Ward; title: "Dress modestly, neatly; title: as if you were going to church" : respectability,  class, and gender in the Montgomery bus boycott and the early civil rights movement / Marisa Chappell, Jenny Hutchinson, and Brian Ward; title: Gender and generation : manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Peter J. Ling; title: Women in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee : ideology, organizational structure, and leadership / Belinda Robnett; title: The "gun-toting" Gloria Richardson : Black violence in Cambridge, Maryland / Jenny Walker; title: "It's a doggy-dogg world" : Black cultural politics, Gangsta Rap and the "post-soul man" / Eithne Quinn; title: Revisiting the 1960s in contemporary fiction : "where do we go from here?" / Sharon Monteith; title: "The struggle continues" : Black women in Congress in the 1990s / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson.