• 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.

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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Married to an Iranian, and mother of two young children, Debra Johanyak was a teaching assistant at Iran's Shiraz University when the American Embassy in Tehran was taken over by militants on 4 November 1979. "Behind the Veil" tells the story of a woman with dual citizenship who loves both the United States and Iran but must choose between them when the embassy take-over triggers an international and personal crisis. Johanyak recounts the events of her life in Iran, drawing on her own journal and family letters, as well as public news sources. Against a background of increasing political and religious tensions, she gives the reader vivid pictures of the world she experienced there, in good times and bad - tribal customs in a village wedding, sandstorms, the warmth of the large Iranian family she married into, the threatening pressure of Islamic fundamentalists. Coming face to face with dramatic changes in Iran's government and society, Johanyak must also confront her own identity. For anyone who has ever wanted to look behind the veil of media imagery and see life in Iran before and after the 1979 revolution, Debra Johanyak's book offers a clear, intimate, and unflinching view of a culture in conflict, as she comes to terms with her religious faith, political views, and feminist values. This book chronicles a dangerous time in Iran and America's shared history, and brings us along on the spiritual and intellectual pilgrimage of one Midwestern woman winding her way in a volatile world.
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This volume brings together a group of scholars who are either authorities on Franklin or on the role of women in the 18th century to adjudge the record and intentions of Franklin. Topics covered include: Franklin's theories on relations between men and women, and the dangers and delights of sex.
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• Introduction-- B.J.Brooten PART I: A PRAYER Prayer for my Daughter (Poem)-- N.Rawles PART II: OVERCOMING SLAVERY'S LEGACIES IN THE UNITED STATES The Paradox of Silence and Display: Sexual Violation of Enslaved Women, and Contemporary Contradictions in Black Female Sexuality-- D.Roberts From Mammy to Welfare Queen: Images of Black Women in Public-Policy Formation-- E.M.Townes From Plantations to Prisons: African American Women Prisoners in the United States-- E.Barry PART III: OVERCOMING SLAVERY'S LEGACIES IN RELIGIOUS LAW The Purchase of His Money: Slavery and the Ethics of Jewish Marriage-- G.Labovitz Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Islam-- K.Ali PART IV: ANCIENT ORIGINS OF THE PROBLEM 'She Shall Not Go Free as Male Slaves Do': Developing Views about Slavery and Gender in the Laws of the Hebrew Bible-- D.P.Wright Early Christianity, Slavery, and Women's Bodies-- J.A.Glancy Gender, Slavery, and Technology: The Shaping of the Early Christian Moral Imagination-- S.Briggs PART V: WHY SEXUAL ETHICS NEEDS HISTORY 'As If She Were His Wife': Slavery and Sexual Ethics in Late Medieval Spain-- D.Blumenthal Love, Sex, Slavery, and Sally Hemings-- M.Bay Breaking the Silence: Sexual Hypocrisies from Thomas Jefferson to Strom Thurmond-- C.Clinton PART VI: SHOULD THE BIBLE FORM THE BASIS OF PUBLIC POLICY The Bible, Slavery, and the Problem of Authority-- S.A.Johnson The 'Purity of the White Woman, Not the Purity of the Negro Woman': The Contemporary Legacies of Historical Laws Against Interracial Marriage-- F.Botham PART VII: THE STORIES WE TELL Mammy's Daughters-- Or, the DNA of a Feminist Sexual Ethics-- F.Smith Foster PART VIII: RESTORATIVE JUSTICE Enslaved Black Women: A Theology of Justice and Reparations-- D.N.Hopkins PART IX: A MEDITATION A Visit from the Old Mistress (Poem)-- F.Ladd Epilogue-- M.Nazer with B.J.Brooten.
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In a United States that continues to be driven by racial and cultural divisions, from the disproportionately high number of incarcerated African Americans to heartfelt disagreements over the true nature of marriage and the proper role of faith in public policy, the Feminist Sexual Ethics Project (from which this book originated) has identified a crucial nexus underlying these fiercest of arguments: The conjunction of religion, slavery, and sexuality.
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