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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967748903321

Autore

Harris Duchess

Titolo

Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Clinton / / by D. Harris

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2009

ISBN

9786612557057

9781349377862

1349377864

9781282557055

128255705X

9780230623200

0230623204

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Contemporary Black History

Disciplina

305.48/896073

973.04

Soggetti

Sex

Europe - Politics and government

United States - History

Political science

Clinical psychology

America - History

Gender Studies

European Politics

US History

Political Science

Clinical Psychology

History of the Americas

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

A history of Black American feminism -- The 1990s in context : a history of Black women in American politics -- Black women's relationships with party politics -- Doubting the Democrats : current



disenchantment and political futures.

Sommario/riassunto

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this book analyzes Black women's involvement in American political life, focusing on what they did to gain political power between 1961 and 2001, and why, in many cases, they did not succeed.