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• Bibliography. Index.
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This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience. Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, seamstresses, laundresses, recruiters, relief workers, organizers, teachers, activists and survivors. They carried the honor of the race on their shoulders, insisting on their right to be treated as "ladies" and knowing that their conduct was a direct reflection on the African American community as a whole. For too long, black women have been rendered invisible in traditional Civil War history and marginal in African American chronicles. This book addresses this lack by reclaiming and resurrecting the role of African American females, individually and collectively, during the Civil War. It brings their contributions, in the words of a Civil War participant, Susie King Taylor, "in history before the people.".
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• Awakenings
• And the truth shall set you free
• African American women in the Civil War and Reconstruction
• Leading to World War I
• World War II and the lives of working class African American women
• The era of the modern civil rights movement : the struggle for rights continues
• African American women in contemporary politics and political organizations
• Contemporary times : African American women and hip-hop
• The struggle continues : steps to implementing change.

• American Indian women's narratives: the literary tradition
• The ethnographic perspective: early recorders
• Maria Chona: an independent woman in traditional culture
• Culture change and continuity: a Winnebago life
• Two women in transition: separate perspectives
• The long road back: Maria Campbell
• Traditional values in modern context: the narratives to come.

Indian women's autobiographies have been slighted because of the assumption that women had a secondary and insignificant role in Indian society. Gretchen M. Bataille and Kathleen Mullen Sands cogently demonstrate in this book the creative vitality of autobiographies that, despite differences in style and purpose, clarify the centrality of women in American Indian cultures. Included is a comprehensive, annotated bibliography or works by and about American Indian women.
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• The Americans and the Germans.--Education.--Scholarship.--Women.--American democracy.

• Ellen Craft
• Charlotte Forten Grimke
• Mary Fields
• Ida B. Wells
• Mary McLeod Bethune
• Clara Hale
• Leontyne Price
• Toni Morrison
• Mae C. Jemison
• Jackie Joyner-Kersee
• And some others who dared.

The history of black women in America is one of adversity as well as of reaching, stretching, and striving to succeed. Here are the stories of ten women from ordinary beginnings who overcame racism and sexism, from escaped slave Ellen Craft to Olympic gold-medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.
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• * Acknowledgements * Editorial Practices * Map of Texas * Dramatis Personae * Timeline * Introduction. Lucy: Herself, Her Family, Her Friends * Her Texas World * Her Diary *
• Chapter 1. January 1863 *
• Chapter 2. February 1863 *
• Chapter 3. March 1863 *
• Chapter 4. April-May 1863 *
• Chapter 5. June-July 1863 *
• Chapter 6. August-September 1863 *
• Chapter 7. October-December 1863 *
• Chapter 8. January-February 1864 *
• Chapter 9. March-April 1864 *
• Chapter 10. May-June 1864 *
• Chapter 11. July-September 1864 *
• Chapter 12. October-December 1864 *
• Chapter 13. January 1865 *
• Chapter 14. February-March 1865 *
• Chapter 15. April 1-16, 1865 *
• Chapter 16. April 17-May 4, 1865 * Lucy: Her World after Texas * Bibliography * Index.
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Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt's family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War made returning home impossible. Stranded in enemy territory for the duration of the war, how would she reconcile her Northern upbringing with the Southern sentiments surrounding her? Lucy Stevens's diary-one of few women's diaries from Civil War-era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner-offers a unique perspective on daily life at the fringes of America's bloodiest conflict. An articulate, educated, and keen observer, Stevens took note of seemingly everything-the weather, illnesses, food shortages, parties, church attendance, chores, schools, childbirth, death, the family's slaves, and political and military news. As she confided her private thoughts to her journal, she unwittingly revealed how her love for her Texas family and the Confederate soldier boys she came to care for blurred her loyalties, even as she continued to long for her home in Ohio. Showing how the ties of heritage, kinship, friendship, and community transcended the sharpest division in US history, this rare diary and Vicki Adams Tongate's insightful historical commentary on it provide a trove of information on women's history, Texas history, and Civil War history.
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After serving in Congress for more than thirty years as both a congresswoman and a senator, Senator Boxer has proven herself to be a passionate advocate for significant issues of our time, including the military, civil rights, universal health care, and the environment. With a who's who of politics of the past three decades, Boxer shows all of the machinations that it takes to make government work, much of it off the record. Featuring names beloved and reviled, Boxer takes us behind the scenes to show us what it has been like to deal with George W. Bush, John McCain, and Mitch McConnell, as well as Tip O'Neill, the Clintons, Obama, and so many more. Raised in a Jewish, working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY, Boxer was a journalist who decided she could make a difference and ran for local office in California, inspired to fight tooth and nail to help bring that American dream of "a more perfect union, " into fruition. Behind closed doors in secret negotiating rooms, Boxer has seen it all: petty squabbling, bare-knuckled dysfunctional debate, and vicious character assassinations. Drawing back the curtain, Boxer leads readers in a master class in statecraft, revealing the truth behind controversial policies, temperamental elected officials, and sensational media headlines that have dominated our national discourse. In this passionate, heartfelt testament to one woman's life's work to improve democracy for all, Senator Boxer offers her views on how American government is flawed and can be rescued to ultimately flourish, but only with the full participation of the nation at large.
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• Welfare reform's impact on Asian American women
• The trafficking of Asian women
• Asian American garment workers : low wages, excessive hours, and crippling injuries
• Other low-wage workers : high-tech sweatshops, home care workers, and domestic workers
• Health care needs of Asian American women
• Sexual and reproductive freedom for Asian American women
• Domestic violence and Asian American women
• Hmong women in the US : changing a patriarchal culture
• Hawaii : the Asian state.

• Introduction: Out front
• Political ties that bind
• A new politics
• Office bound
• Campaign for the people
• Not one of the boys
• Year of the woman
• Performing political celebrity
• Government wrongs and privacy rights
• Running for a democratic future
• International women's year at home
• Epilogue: Frankly speaking

Bella Abzug's promotion of women's and gay rights, universal childcare, green energy, and more provoked not only fierce opposition from Republicans but a split within her own party. The story of this notorious, galvanizing force in the Democrats' "New Politics" insurgency is a biography for our times. Before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, or Hillary Clinton, there was New York's Bella Abzug. With a fiery rhetorical style forged in the 1960s antiwar movement, Abzug vigorously promoted gender parity, economic justice, and the need to "bring Congress back to the people." The 1970 congressional election season saw Abzug, in her trademark broad-brimmed hats, campaigning on the slogan "This Woman's Place Is in the House-the House of Representatives." Having won her seat, she advanced the feminist agenda in ways big and small, from gaining full access for congresswomen to the House swimming pool to cofounding the National Women's Political Caucus to putting the title "Ms." into the political lexicon. Beyond women's rights, "Sister Bella" promoted gay rights, privacy rights, and human rights, and pushed legislation relating to urban, environmental, and foreign affairs. Her stint in Congress lasted just six years-it ended when she decided to seek the Democrats' 1976 New York Senate nomination, a race she lost to Daniel Patrick Moynihan by less than 1 percent. Their primary contest, while gendered, was also an ideological struggle for the heart of the Democratic Party. Abzug's protest politics had helped for a time to shift the center of politics to the left, but her progressive positions also fueled a backlash from conservatives who thought change was going too far. This deeply researched political biography highlights how, as 1960s radicalism moved protest into electoral politics, Abzug drew fire from establishment politicians across the political spectrum-but also inspired a generation of women.
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• Becoming me
• Becoming us
• Becoming more
• Epilogue.

"An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States. When she was a little girl, Michelle Robinson's world was the South Side of Chicago, where she and her brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family's upstairs apartment and played catch in the park, and where her parents, Fraser and Marian Robinson, raised her to be outspoken and unafraid. But life soon took her much further afield, from the halls of Princeton, where she learned for the first time what if felt like to be the only black woman in a room, to the glassy office tower where she worked as a high-powered corporate lawyer--and where, one summer morning, a law student named Barack Obama appeared in her office and upended all her carefully made plans. Here, for the first time, Michelle Obama describes the early years of her marriage as she struggles to balance her work and family with her husband's fast-moving political career. She takes us inside their private debate over whether he should make a run for the presidency and her subsequent role as a popular but oft-criticized figure during his campaign. Narrating with grace, good humor, and uncommon candor, she provides a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of her family's history-making launch into the global limelight as well as their life inside the White House over eight momentous years--as she comes to know her country and her country comes to know her. [This book] takes us through modest Iowa kitchens and ballrooms at Buckingham Palace, through moments of heart-stopping grief and profound resilience, bringing us deep into the soul of a singular, groundbreaking figure in history as she strives to live authentically, marshaling her personal strength and voice in service of a set of higher ideals. In telling her story with honesty and boldness, she issues a challenge to the rest of us: Who are we and who do we want to become?"--Publisher's description.

A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.

• Motivations
• Women as soldiers in the field and prisoners of war: their hardships
• Paying the price: women soldiers killed and wounded in action
• Mississippi's women soldiers
• Corinth and Iuka
• Mississippi central railroad campaign to Holly Springs
• Chickasaw Bayou
• Port Gibson to big black
• The May assaults
• The siege of Vicksburg
• Natchez and the siege of Jackson
• Brice's crossroads and Tupelo.

During the Civil War, Mississippi's strategic location bordering the Mississippi River and the state's system of railroads drew the attention of opposing forces who clashed in major battles for control over these resources. The names of these engagements-Vicksburg, Jackson, Port Gibson, Corinth, Iuka, Tupelo, and Brice's Crossroads-along with the narratives of the men who fought there resonate in Civil War literature. However, Mississippi's chronicle of military involvement in the Civil War is not one of men alone. Surprisingly, there were a number of female soldiers disguised as males who stood shoulder to shoulder with them on the firing lines across the state. Behind the Rifle: Women Soldiers in Civil War Mississippi is a groundbreaking study that discusses women soldiers with a connection to Mississippi-either those who hailed from the Magnolia State or those from elsewhere who fought in Mississippi battles. Readers will learn who they were, why they chose to fight at a time when military service for women was banned, and the horrors they experienced. Included are two maps and over twenty period photographs of locations relative to the stories of these female fighters along with images of some of the women themselves. The product of over ten years of research, this work provides new details of formerly recorded female fighters, debunks some cases, and introduces over twenty previously undocumented ones. Among these are women soldiers who were involved in such battles beyond Mississippi as Shiloh, Antietam, and Gettysburg. Readers will also find new documentation regarding female fighters held as prisoners of war in such notorious prisons as Andersonville.
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