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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780980003321

Autore

Jones Martha S

Titolo

All bound up together [[electronic resource] ] : the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 / / Martha S. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4696-0501-5

0-8078-8890-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Disciplina

305.48/896073009034

Soggetti

African American women political activists - History - 19th century

African American women - History - 19th century

African American women - Social conditions - 19th century

Sex role - United States - History - 19th century

Women's rights - United States - History - 19th century

Feminism - United States - History - 19th century

African Americans - Politics and government - 19th century

Community life - United States - History - 19th century

African Americans - Social conditions - 19th century

United States Race relations History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Female Influence Is Powerful: Respectability, Responsibility, and Setting the Terms of the Woman Question Debate; Chapter Two: Right Is of No Sex: Reframing the Debate through the Rights of Women; Chapter Three: Not a Woman's Rights Convention: Remaking Public Culture in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford; Chapter Four: Something Very Novel and Strange: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Remaking of African American Public Culture; Chapter Five: Make Us a Power: Churchwomen's Politics and the Campaign for Women's Rights

Chapter Six: Too Much Useless Male Timber: The Nadir, the Woman's Era, and the Question of Women's OrdinationConclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I;



J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the ""woman question"" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.Unlike white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black