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

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

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. This book explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements, and the consequences of elevating women int...

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Main Author: Jones, Martha S.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2007]
Series:John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
Subjects:
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.
Gender roles.
Role behavior.
Women's movement.
Social movements.
Feminism.
United States > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Female influence is powerful : respectability, responsibility, and setting the terms of the woman question debate
  • Right is of no sex : reframing the debate through the rights of women
  • Not a woman's rights convention : remaking public culture in the era of Dred Scott v. Sanford
  • Something very novel and strange : Civil War, emancipation, and the remaking of African American public culture
  • Make us a power : churchwomen's politics and the campaign for women's rights
  • Too much useless male timber : the nadir, the woman's era, and the question of women's ordination.

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