Unequal Sisters

Vicki Ruiz is Professor of History and Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine. She is the past-president of OAH (2006), and current president of the American Studies Association.

Introduction 1. Race and the Politics of Identity in U.S. Feminism 2. Bodies in Motion: Lesbian and Transsexual Histories 3. Teaching the Differences Among Women from a Historical Perspective: Rethinking Race and Gender as Social Categories 4. This Evil Extends Especially to the Feminine Sex: Captivity and Identity in New Mexico, 1700-1846 5. 'Deluders and Seducers of Each Other': Gender and the Changing Nature of Resistance 6. The Pleasures of Resistance: Enslaved Women and Body Politics in the Plantation South, 1830-1861 7. Race, Culture and Justice in Mexican Los Angeles 8. To Earn her Daily Bread: Housework and Antebellum Working-Class Subsistence 9. The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of War, 1861-1900 10. To Catch the Vision of Freedom: Reconstructing Southern Black Women’s Political History, 1865-1880 11. 'To Dark to be Angels': The Class System Among the Cherokees at the Female Seminary-Devon 12. The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound 13. Black and White Visions of Welfare: Women’s Welfare Activism, 1890-1945 14. Migrations and Destinations: Reflections on the Histories of U.S. Immigrant Women 15. The Social Awakening of Chinese American Women as Reported in Chung Sai Yat Po, 1900-1911 16. Working Women, Class Relations, and Suffrage Militance: Harriot Stanton Blatch and the New York Woman’s Suffrage Movement, 1894-1909 17. In Politics to Stay: Black Women Leaders and Party Politics in the 1920s-Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham 18. Miscegenation Law, Court Cases, and Ideologies of 'Race' in Twentieth-Century America 19. Sexual Geography and Gender Economy: The Furnished Room Districts of Chicago, 1890-1930 20. Making Faces: The Cosmetics Industry and the Cultural Construction of Gender, 1890-1930 21. 'Star Struck': Acculturation, Adolescence, and Mexican American Women, 1920-1940 22. Japanese American Women and the Creation of Urban Nisei Culture in the 1930s 23. In Search of Unconventional Women: Histories of Puerto Rican Women in Religious Vocations Before Mid-Century 24. 'We are that Mythical Thing Called the Public': Militant Housewives during the Great Depression 25. Raiz Fuerte: Oral History and Mexicana Farmworkers 26. From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor 27. Open Secrets: Memory, Imagination, and the Refashioning of Southern Identity 28. Was Mom Chung a 'Sister Lesbian'?: Asian American Gender Experimentation 29. Telling Performances: Jazz History Remembered and Remade by the Women in the Band 30. Rethinking Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique: Labour Union Radicalism and Feminism in Cold War America 31. Non Mothers as Bad Mothers: Infertility and the 'Maternal Instinct' 32. Polishing Brown Diamonds: African-American Women, Popular Magazines, and the Advent of Modeling in Early Postwar America 33. More than a Lady: Ruby Doris Smith Robinson and Black Women’s Leadership in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 34. Towards Trans-Pacific Social Justice: Women and Protest in Filipino American History 35. Silencing Religiosity: Secularity and Arab American Feminisms 36. Migrant Melancholia: Emergent Discourses of Mexican Migrant Traffic in Transnational Space