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Full-Text Articles in Women's History
“Deserting The Broad And Easy Way”: Southern Methodist Women, The Social Gospel, And The New Deal State, 1909-1939, Chelsea Hodge
“Deserting The Broad And Easy Way”: Southern Methodist Women, The Social Gospel, And The New Deal State, 1909-1939, Chelsea Hodge
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Over the course of three decades, white southern Methodist women took on issues of labor and poverty through their national women’s organization, the Woman’s Missionary Council (WMC). Between 1909 and 1939, the WMC focused their work on five groups of people they viewed as in need of their help: women, children, black southerners, immigrants, and rural people. Motivated by the Social Gospel and an intense belief that their faith led them to effect real change in the American South, the WMC intervened in people’s lives, pursuing reform that could at times be maternalistic and condescending but at other times radical …
Building From Within: How Two Female Prisoners Survived Incarceration, Laura M. Cuevas Meléndez
Building From Within: How Two Female Prisoners Survived Incarceration, Laura M. Cuevas Meléndez
Special Collections Research Center Learning Lab Student Research
According to the US Commission of Civil Rights, from 1980 to 2016, the percentage of imprisoned women surpassed 730% (4). Severe isolation, lack of sunlight, and sensory deprivation tactics were employed during the 1980s, when Silvia Baraldini and Laura Whitehorn were incarcerated at the federal women’s prison in Lexington, Kentucky. Both women maintained their basic humanity and spirit by creating educational opportunities for fellow inmates, advocating for improved conditions, and sharing their experiences through letter writing. They each wrote hundreds of letters to friends, family, and other social activists concerned with their plight. Using a collection of letters written by …
The South African Women's Movement: The Roles Of Feminism And Multiracial Cooperation In The Struggle For Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser
The South African Women's Movement: The Roles Of Feminism And Multiracial Cooperation In The Struggle For Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In the historiography of South Africa’s recent past, focus has been most heavily placed on apartheid and the anti-apartheid movement, with much emphasis placed on male involvement and men as the primary agents of change in the country. Women are largely viewed as playing a supportive role to male activists throughout the movement, and far less has been written on female involvement or women’s activism in its own right. Running parallel to the anti-apartheid movement, however, was a women’s movement characterized by women across the racial and socioeconomic spectrum struggling to secure their own rights in a very hostile and …
African American Women And The Women's Suffrage Movement In Knoxville, Tn, Ashley B. Farrington
African American Women And The Women's Suffrage Movement In Knoxville, Tn, Ashley B. Farrington
Electronic Theses & Dissertations
During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and despite the fact that white women often discriminated against them, African American women across the United States worked to obtain voting rights for all women. Nationally, black women used the African American club movement and their experiences in church benevolent societies to advocate for women’s suffrage. In some cases, however, a widespread and thriving club movement did not lead to suffrage activities. In Knoxville, Tennessee, there is no evidence that the clubwomen participated in the suffrage movement. This thesis outlines the specific social conditions that caused to black clubwomen’s lack of …
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Clara Lemlich Shavelson: An Activist Life, Sarah B. Cohn
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Clara Lemlich Shavelson is primarily known for her impassioned speeches during the 1909 Uprising of 20,000. The majority of histories written about her address her involvement in organizing women garment workers in New York’s Lower East Side from her arrival in New York in 1903 up through the eleven-week general strike in 1909. After this, the literature would have you believe she fades into obscurity, for there is only one book that addresses her life post 1909. Shavelson did not give up organizing after 1909. She got married, moved to Brooklyn, and started a family. In Brooklyn, she organized women …
"Let's Get Together And Chew The Fat": Women, Size And Community In Modern America, Amelia Earhart Serafine
"Let's Get Together And Chew The Fat": Women, Size And Community In Modern America, Amelia Earhart Serafine
Dissertations
"Let's Get Together and Chew the FAT: Women, Size, and Community in Modern America" argues that between 1948 and the 1980s, women in America formed communities around issues of size in order to claim agency over their bodies. Primarily concerned with losing weight, many women in these groups nonetheless created new tools and abilities with which to resist oppression based on body size. Some women went as far as to form explicitly positive fat identities and reject compulsory slenderness. This dissertation investigates four cases studies: TOPS (Take off Pounds Sensibly), Overeaters Anonymous, Weight Watchers, and the Fat Liberation movement of …
Sentimentality Has Its Place In Human Rights Activism: Nadia Murad Basee Taha’S Testimony And The Yazidi Story, Miranda Rose Shulman
Sentimentality Has Its Place In Human Rights Activism: Nadia Murad Basee Taha’S Testimony And The Yazidi Story, Miranda Rose Shulman
Senior Projects Spring 2017
This project tells the story of Nadia Murad and the Yazidi genocide of 2014 through analysis of her own testimony and considers the success and the intricacies of her approach to aiding the Yazidis who suffer to this day. It discusses the power of using sentimentality and emotion in human rights activism.
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Abdurraqib, Samaa, Iris Sangiovanni, Samar Ahmed
Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection
Samaa Abdurraqib is a Black, queer, Muslim woman living in Portland, Maine. Abdurraqib was raised in Columbus, Ohio. She attend the University of Ohio, and later the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she received a PhD in English Literature. After graduating she worked as a visiting professor at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Next she went on to work the American Civil Liberties Union in Maine as a reproductive rights organizer. She now works for the Maine Coalition to End Domestic Violence. Her advocacy and organizing work has included places such as Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, …
Archiving The '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture, Margaret A. Galvan
Archiving The '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture, Margaret A. Galvan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
Archiving the '80s: Feminism, Queer Theory, & Visual Culture locates a shared genealogy of feminism and queer theory in the visual culture of 1980s American feminism. Gathering primary sources from grant-funded research in a dozen archives, I analyze an array of image-text media of women, ranging from well known creators like Gloria Anzaldúa, Alison Bechdel, and Nan Goldin, to little known ones like Roberta Gregory and Lee Marrs. In each chapter, I examine how each woman develops movement politics in her visual production, and I study the reception of their works in their communities of influence. Through studying hybrid visual …
0835: The Links, Incorporated Collection, 1955-2016, Marshall University Special Collections
0835: The Links, Incorporated Collection, 1955-2016, Marshall University Special Collections
Guides to Manuscript Collections
Established in 1955, the Huntington, West Virginia chapter of The Links, Incorporated is a women’s volunteer organization that works to support culture, education, health and wellness for seniors, adults, and youth in the African American community. The national Links, Incorporated organization, founded in 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, oversees four regional areas, including the Central Area, which consists of 69 Links chapters in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. The Huntington, WV chapter is the only Links, Incorporated chapter in West Virginia, and its activities extend to Williamson and Bluefield. Chapter members such …
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Voice For The Oppressed, Molly E. Craig
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Voice For The Oppressed, Molly E. Craig
Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects
In this thesis, I discuss Eleanor Roosevelt as a political and social activist through the media. ER was the first First Lady to advocate for her own social and political agenda and a way in which she accomplished this was with her extensive relationship with the media. In my thesis, I first give a brief history of other sources regarding aspects of Eleanor Roosevelt’s life that touch my own project. Then, I examine the reasons Eleanor Roosevelt felt compelled toward activism. In the next section I analyze several different media outlets, beginning with her book It’s Up to the Women …
African American Women Leaders In The Civil Rights Movement: A Narrative Inquiry, Janet Dewart Bell
African American Women Leaders In The Civil Rights Movement: A Narrative Inquiry, Janet Dewart Bell
Antioch University Dissertations & Theses
The purpose of this study is to give recognition to and lift up the voices of African American women leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. African American women were active leaders at all levels of the Civil Rights Movement, though the larger society, the civil rights establishment, and sometimes even the women themselves failed to acknowledge their significant leadership contributions. The recent and growing body of popular and nonacademic work on African American women leaders, which includes some leaders’ writings about their own experiences, often employs the terms “advocate” or “activist” rather than “leader.” In the academic literature, particularly on …
Radical Housewife Activism: Subverting The Toxic Public/Private Binary, Emma Foehringer Merchant
Radical Housewife Activism: Subverting The Toxic Public/Private Binary, Emma Foehringer Merchant
Pomona Senior Theses
Since the 1960s, the modern environmental movement, though generally liberal in nature, has historically excluded a variety of serious and influential groups. This thesis concentrates on the movement of working-class housewives who emerged into popular American consciousness in the seventies and eighties with their increasingly radical campaigns against toxic contamination in their respective communities. These women represent a group who exhibited the convergence of cultural influences where domesticity and environmentalism met in the middle of American society, and the increasing focus on public health in the environmental movement framed the fight undertaken by women who identified as “housewives.” These women, …
Teaching Postcolonial Literature In An Elite University: An Edinburgh Lecturer’S Perspective, Michelle Keown
Teaching Postcolonial Literature In An Elite University: An Edinburgh Lecturer’S Perspective, Michelle Keown
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
This reflective essay explores some of the pedagogical challenges I have faced in teaching postcolonial literature and theory at the University of Edinburgh. There are particular social dynamics at work at Edinburgh that make engaging with intersectionality, particularly in the context of colonialism and racism, a rather complex endeavor. Edinburgh is a Russell Group university, and our undergraduate constituency is overwhelmingly white, middle class and British, with a high proportion of students coming from British public-school backgrounds. Many of these students approach postcolonial writing with well-meaning liberal intentions, but often adopt what Graham Huggan (2001) would term an exoticizing perspective …
Freedom Indivisible: Gays And Lesbians In The African American Civil Rights Movement, Jared E. Leighton
Freedom Indivisible: Gays And Lesbians In The African American Civil Rights Movement, Jared E. Leighton
Department of History: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This work documents the role of sixty gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals in the African American civil rights movement in the pre-Stonewall era. It examines the extent of their involvement from the grassroots to the highest echelons of leadership. Because many lesbians and gays were not out during their time in the movement, and in some cases had not yet identified as lesbian or gay, this work also analyzes how the civil rights movement, and in a number of cases women’s liberation, contributed to their identity formation and coming out. This work also contributes to our understanding of opposition to …
Study Guide For United In Anger: A History Of Act Up, Matt Brim
Study Guide For United In Anger: A History Of Act Up, Matt Brim
Open Educational Resources
The United in Anger Study Guide facilitates classroom and activist engagement with Jim Hubbard’s 2012 documentary, United in Anger: A History of ACT UP. The Study Guide contains discussion sections, projects and exercises, and resources for further research about the activism of the New York chapter of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power). The Study Guide is a free, interactive, multimedia resource for understanding the legacy of ACT UP, the film’s role in preserving that legacy, and its meaning for viewers' lives.
Reflections On Intellectual Hybridity, Kimala Price
Reflections On Intellectual Hybridity, Kimala Price
Journal of Feminist Scholarship
Drawing from the growing literature on interdisciplinarity and my own experiences as an intellectual hybrid, I discuss the personal and institutional challenges inherent in crossing disciplinary boundaries in the academy. I argue that boundary crossing is a natural occurrence and that the issue of (inter)disciplinarity is a matter of degree and of determining who gets to define the boundaries. Defining boundaries is not merely an intellectual enterprise, but also a political act that delineates what is, or is not, legitimate scholarship. This issue is especially salient to women's and gender studies during times of economic distress and educational budget cuts.
Looking At Lesbian Feminism 1970-2005: Conversations Across Generations, Polly Thistlethwaite
Looking At Lesbian Feminism 1970-2005: Conversations Across Generations, Polly Thistlethwaite
Center for LGBTQ Studies (CLAGS)
What has become of lesbian feminism? Over 100 activists, scholars, and writers convened at the CUNY Graduate Center on Friday, October 28, for intergenerational discussions about lesbian-feminism. Activists from the first 'organized' lesbian movement paired with lesbian activists who came out post-lesbian-feminism to talk about lesbian-feminism and the body, culture, sex, and movement building. Together with a moderator, participants in the four featured discussions shared convictions and experiences about class, race, transgender politics, misogyny, privilege, dating strategies, sexual styles, and liberation struggles.
Oral Interview Of Beverly Hasty By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Beverly Hasty
Oral Interview Of Beverly Hasty By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Beverly Hasty
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Norma Keim By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Norma Keim
Oral Interview Of Norma Keim By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Norma Keim
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Oral Interview Of Carolyn Blouin By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Carolyn Blouin
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Ruth Howarth By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Ruth Howarth
Oral Interview Of Ruth Howarth By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Ruth Howarth
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Aimee Schramm By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Aimee Schramm
Oral Interview Of Aimee Schramm By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Aimee Schramm
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Natalie Goodwin And Esther Holmes By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Natalie Goodwin, Esther Holmes
Oral Interview Of Natalie Goodwin And Esther Holmes By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Natalie Goodwin, Esther Holmes
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Aimee Schramm By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Aimee Schramm
Oral Interview Of Aimee Schramm By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Aimee Schramm
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Natalie Goodwin And Esther Holmes By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Natalie Goodwin, Esther Holmes
Oral Interview Of Natalie Goodwin And Esther Holmes By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Natalie Goodwin, Esther Holmes
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.
Oral Interview Of Elena Howard By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Elena Howard
Oral Interview Of Elena Howard By Jenny Meagher For A Project On Activist Women In South Berwick, Maine, Elena Howard
Interviews (audio recordings and transcripts)
Part of a series of interviews conducted during the summer of 1992 by Jenny Meagher about women activists in South Berwick, Maine for an oral interview project for the Salt Center for Documentary Studies.