1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910465752003321

Autore

Zackodnik Teresa C

Titolo

Press, platform, pulpit [[electronic resource] ] : Black feminist publics in the era of reform / / Teresa Zackodnik

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, Tenn., : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-41171-7

9786613411716

1-57233-840-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (377 pages)

Disciplina

305.48/896073009034

Soggetti

Feminism - United States - History - 19th century

African American feminists - History - 19th century

African American social reformers - History - 19th century

African American clergy - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Going public : African American feminism in the era of reform -- Soul winners and sanctified sisters : Nineteenth-Century African American preaching women -- Internationalizing Black feminisms : Ellen Craft, Sarah Parker Remond, and American slavery in the British Isles and Ireland -- "I don't know how you will feel when I get through" : racial difference, symbolic value, and sojourner truth -- The platform, the pamphlet, and the press : Ida B. Wells's pedagogy of American lynching -- "We must be up and doing": feminist Black nationalism in the press -- Conclusion : feminist affiliations in a divisive climate : Anna Julia Cooper's "woman versus the Indian".

Sommario/riassunto

Press, Platform, Pulpit examines how early black feminism goes public by sheding new light on some of the major figures of early black feminism as well as bringing forward some lesser-known individuals who helped shape various  reform movements. With a perspective unlike many other studies of black feminism, Teresa Zackodnik considers these activists as central, rather than marginal, to the politics of their day, and argues that black feminism reached critical mass well



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2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910811959803321

Autore

Biehl Janet <1953->

Titolo

Ecology or catastrophe : the life of Murray Bookchin / / Janet Biehl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-19-934250-4

0-19-934249-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 p.)

Disciplina

333.72092

Soggetti

Ecologists - United States

Environmentalists - United States

Social ecology - United States

Environmentalism - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Ecology or Catastrophe: THE LIFE OF MURRAY BOOKCHIN; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1 Young Bolshevik; 2 Labor Organizer; 3 Rethinker; 4 Eco-Decentralist; 5 Eco-Anarchist; 6 Counterculture Elder; 7 Man of the Moment; 8 Social Ecologist; 9 Antinuclear Activist; 10 Municipalist; 11 Green Politico; 12 Assembly Democrat; 13 Historian; Epilogue; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Murray Bookchin was not only one of the most significant and influential environmental philosophers of the twentieth century--he was also one of the most prescient. From industrial agriculture to nuclear radiation, Bookchin has been at the forefront of every major ecological issue since the very beginning, often proposing a solution before most people even recognized there was a problem. Ecology or Catastrophe: The Life of Murray Bookchin is the first biography of this groundbreaking environmental and political thinker. Author Janet Biehl worked as his collaborator and copyeditor for 19 years,