In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimk??, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, the Joan of Arc of the coalfields, one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of California Press
ISBN-13
9780520229655
eBay Product ID (ePID)
94976053
Product Key Features
Author
Judith Nies
Publication Name
Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, Politics
Publication Year
2002
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
210mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
454g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Judith Nies
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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