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

• Autore: Jones Martha S
• Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.48/896073009034
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations History 19th century
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: All bound up together
• ISBN: 1-4696-0501-5; 0-8078-8890-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822807903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.