U.S. Women's History

LESLIE BROWN was a professor of history at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She is the author of Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Urban South, the editor of Voices of Freedom II: A Documentary History, from Emancipation to the Present, and (with Anne Valk) coeditor of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South.  JACQUELINE CASTLEDINE teaches interdisciplinary studies in the University Without Walls at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she also directs program innovation for the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. She is the coeditor of Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945–1985 and the author of Cold War Progressives: Women’s Interracial Organizing for Peace and Justice.  ANNE VALK is the associate director for public humanities at Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts.  She is the author of Radical Sisters: Women’s Liberation and the Black Freedom Movement in Washington, D.C., 1968–1980 and the coeditor (with Leslie Brown) of Living with Jim Crow: African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South.  

Contents
 ForewordDeborah Gray White
 Preface: A Feminist Way of Being—Celebrating Nancy A. HewittPaula J. Giddings
 Acknowledgments
 Introduction
 Part One  Searching for Sisterhood
 Chapter 1 Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865–1930
Danielle Phillips Chapter 2 “By Any Means Necessary”: The National Council of Negro Women’s Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power EraRebecca Tuuri
 Chapter 3 “This Is Like Family”: Activist-Survivor Histories and MotherworkAriella Rotramel
 Part Two  Challenging Established Narratives
 Chapter 4 The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women’s Bodily IntegrityDanielle L. McGuire
 Chapter 5 Cold War History as Women’s HistoryJacqueline Castledine
 Chapter 6 “I’m Gonna Get You”: Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post–Civil Rights SouthChristina Greene
 Part Three:  Rethinking Feminism
 Chapter 7 Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White MenJen Manion
 Chapter 8 When a “Sister” Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967–1980Andrea Estepa
 Chapter 9 Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in MinneapolisKirsten Delegard
 Chapter 10 Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of FeminismAnne Valk
 Selected BibliographyNotes on ContributorsIndex