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Gender and the civil rights movement / edited by Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith.

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Gender and the civil rights movement / edited by Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith.
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New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2004.

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276 pages; 22 cm
Summary
This is a collection of essays that analyse the people, the protests and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics and ideology of the movement.
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Note
  • Originally published: Gender in the civil rights movement. New York : Garland Pub., 1999.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Gender and the civil rights movement / Peter J. Ling and Sharon Monteith -- Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and 1957 Little Rock school crisis : a gendered perspective / John A. Kirk -- Sex machines and prisoners of love : male rhythm and blues, sexual politics, and the Black freedom struggle / Brian Ward -- "Dress modestly, neatly -- 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 -- Gender and generation : manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / Peter J. Ling -- Women in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee : ideology, organizational structure, and leadership / Belinda Robnett -- The "gun-toting" Gloria Richardson : Black violence in Cambridge, Maryland / Jenny Walker -- "It's a doggy-dogg world" : Black cultural politics, Gangsta Rap and the "post-soul man" / Eithne Quinn -- Revisiting the 1960s in contemporary fiction : "where do we go from here?" / Sharon Monteith -- "The struggle continues" : Black women in Congress in the 1990s / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson.
ISBN
  • 0813534380
  • 9780813534381
LCCN
2003022264
OCLC
  • 53223542
  • SCSB-10152791
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Harvard Library