Gender in the Civil Rights Movement

In a new anthology of essays, an international group of scholars examines the powerful interaction between gender and race within the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy.

Autorentext

Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith

Zusammenfassung
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Inhalt

Introduction, Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith; Chapter 1 Daisy Bates, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the 1957 Little Rock School Crisis: A Gendered Perspective, John A. Kirk; Chapter 2 Sex Machines and Prisoners of Love: Male Rhythm and Blues, Sexual Politics and the Black Freedom Struggle, Brian Ward; Chapter 3 "Dress modestly, neatly ... as if you were going to church": Respectability, Class and Gender in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Early Civil Rights Movement, Marisa Chappell, Jenny Hutchinson, Brian Ward; Chapter 4 Gender and Generation: Manhood at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Peter J. Ling; Chapter 5 Women in the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee: Ideology, Organizational Structure, and Leadership, Belinda Robnett; Chapter 6 The "Gun-Toting" Gloria Richardson: Black Violence in Cambridge, Maryland, Jenny Walker; Chapter 7 "It's a Doggy-Dogg World": Black Cultural Politics, Gangsta Rap and the "Post-Soul Man", Eithne Quinn; Chapter 8 Revisiting the 1960s in Contemporary Fiction: "Where do we go from here?", Sharon Monteith; Chapter 9 "The Struggle Continues": Black Women in Congress in the 1990s, Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson;