Books in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History series

Originally published in hardcover in 2012 by University of Illinois Press.

Black and white women's struggles over race relations in the YWCA and beyond

Tells about nineteenth-century women and men who believed in and fought for women's social and economic equality and the right to reproductive choice.

Examining how labor and economy shaped family life for both women and men among the enslaved

Presents the story of how African American women used their wartime contributions on the home front to push for increased rights to equal employment, welfare benefits, worker equity, and desegregation of volunteer associations, during WWII.

For decades before World War II, New York's tenants had organized to secure renters' rights. This title shows that New York City's tenant movement made a significant claim to citizenship rights that came to accrue, both ideologically and legally, to homeownership in postwar America.

Suitable for not only historians and sociologists but also to those working with or studying voluntary organizations.

This pathbreaking anthology is an illuminating look at the lives of ten influential twentieth-century American women

Recasting the meaning of women's work in the early fight for gender equality