VOLUME 28

NUMBER2

October 2024

 

Editor: Patricia Schechter
Editorial Assistants: Genevieve Davis and Isabelle Amezcua
Book Review Editors: Erica Hayden and Michelle Moravec
Founding editors: Thomas Dublin and Kathryn Kish Sklar
Published by Alexander Street Press, with support from the University of California, San Diego

 

| About the Journal |
| Patricia Schechter, "In This Issue" |

Cover Art

| Our Alaskan Sisters Up in the Klondike Country Cover Art |

DOCUMENT PROJECTS AND ARCHIVES
INDIGENOUS SYLLABUS, SECTIONS V, VI and VII

Voices of Indigenous Women in North America, American Empire and the Global South, 1820-2020:
A Syllabus with Documents
Introduction to Sections V, VI, and VII
By Mary A. Renda
| Introduction |

 

A Black South African/Zulu Woman Speaks to American Audiences in the 1920s: Sibusisiwe Makhanya, 1894-1971
By Brandy Thomas Wells
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

Maya Women Speak about Warfare and Community in Guatemala in the 1980s
By Rachel O'Donnell
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

"There is No Development without Women's Participation": Indigenous Women in the Americas
By Jill Jensen
| Abstract | Document List | Introduction |

Introduction to the ONLINE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES

General Intro | Black Woman Suffragists | Militant Woman Suffragists | NAWSA Suffragists

BOOK REVIEWS

Review of Southern Black Women and Their Struggle for Freedom during the Civil War and Reconstruction
By Karen Cook Bell, editor (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 252 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN: 978-1009087452).
Reviewed by Victoria Bynum

Review of Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class
By Aimee Loiselle (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2023. 308 pp. Hardcover, $99.00. ISBN 9781469676128; Paper $29.95, ISBN 9781469676135).
Reviewed by Dorothy Sue Cobble

Review of The Camp Fire Girls: Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910-1980
By Jennifer Helgren (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 372 pp. Hardcover, $99.00. Paperback and eBook, $30.00, ISBN: 9781496233080).
Reviewed by Stacy A. Cordery

Review of Producing Feminism: Television Work in the Age of Women's Liberation
By J.S. Clark (University of California Press. 2024. 209 pp. eBook. Open Access, ISBN: 9780520399297ISBN).
Reviewed by Mary M. Dalton

Review of Breaking the Gender Code: Women and Urban Public Space in the Twentieth-Century United States
By Georgina Hickey (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 272 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 978-1477328224).
Reviewed by Anne Gray Fischer

Review of It's Our Movement Now: Black Women's Politics and the 1977 National Women's Conference
By Laura L. Lovett, Rachel Jessica Daniel, and Kelly N. Giles, eds. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2022. 278 pp. Paper, $35.00, ISBN: 9780813068817).
Reviewed by Caitlyn Jones

Review of To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation
By Pauli Murray, edited by Anthony B. Pinn (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 416 pp. Cloth, $35.00, ISBN 978-0300268065).
Reviewed by Kiana Knight

Review of The Women's Project, at www.womensprojectstory.org/
By Acadia Roher and Anna Stitt
Reviewed by Michelle Moravec

Review of America, Goddam: Violence, Black Women, and the Struggle for Justice
By Treva B. Lindsey (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 342 pp. Paper, $24.95, ISBN: 9780520397446).
Reviewed by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

Review of The Life of Madie Hall Xuma: Black Women's Global Activism during Jim Crow and Apartheid
By Wanda A. Hendricks (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2022. Pp. xiv, 288. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0- 252-08664-9; cloth, $125.00, ISBN 978-0-252-04456-4).
Reviewed by Brandy Thomas Wells

 

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