Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle
5 best books like Want to Start a Revolution?: Radical Women in the Black Freedom Struggle (Dayo F. Gore): At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power, Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement, Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America, Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
| Author | Danielle L. McGuire |
Groundbreaking, controversial, and courageous, here is the story of Rosa Parks and Recy Taylor—a story that reinterprets the history of America's civil rights movement in terms of the sexual violence committed against black women by white men.
Rosa Parks was often described as a sweet...
Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
| Author | Maylei Blackwell |
| ISBN | 0292725884 |
The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest. As Chicanos...
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild
| Author | Deborah Siegel |
| ISBN | 1403973180 |
Contrary to clichés about the end of feminism, Deborah Siegel argues that younger women are reliving the battles of its past, and reinventing it--with a vengeance. From feminist blogging to the popularity of the WNBA, girl culture is on the rise. A lively and compelling look back at the framing of one...
The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America
American feminism has always been about more than the struggle for individual rights and equal treatment with men. There's also a vital and continuing tradition of women's reform that sought social as well as individual rights and argued for the dismantling of the masculine standard. In this much...
Lift Every Voice: The NAACP and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement
| Author | Patricia Sullivan |
| ISBN | 1595584463 |
A ?civil rights Hall of FameOCO " (Kirkus) " that was published to remarkable praise in conjunction with the NAACPOCOs Centennial Celebration, " Lift Every Voice " is a momentous history of the struggle for civil rights told through the stories of men and women who fought inescapable racial barriers...
