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

Details Black women as liberal reformers, from suffrage to civil rights

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.

With the biography of Anna Howard Shaw (1847-1919), this book focuses on an important woman suffrage leader who has too often been overlooked and misunderstood. It shows how circumstances and choices both impacted Shaw's role in the woman suffrage movement and set her apart from her native-born, middle- and upper-class colleagues.

A study of Irish-Catholic Sisters' work in founding charitable organizations in New York City from the famine through the early 20th century. It argues that it was these nuns' championing of the rights of the poor - especially poor women - that resulted in an explosion of state-supported services and programs.

A study that deals with the courage and vigor with which African-American women fought for their freedom during and after the Civil War. Focusing on slave women on the rice plantations of lowcountry South Carolina, it offers an account of their vital roles in antebellum plantation life and in the wartime collapse of slavery.

Shows how the western city evolved from a male-dominated mining enclave to a community in which men and women participated on a more equal basis as leisure patterns changed and consumer culture grew

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