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women working for social change
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cantarow, Ellen
- Creator
- O'Malley, Susan Gushee
- Creator
- Strom, Sharon Hartman
- Publish Year
- 1980
- Shelfmark
- VS 62 1980 - B
the quest for the abolition of the color line
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zhang, Juguo
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B1799 - B
- Thesaurus
- anti apartheid, anti racisme, gelijke behandeling, mensenrechten, etniciteit, zwarte vrouwen, kolonialisme, vredesbeweging, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- Aandacht voor het werk van de voorvechter van de gelijke rechten van zwarte en witte Amerikanen en antikolonialisme en wereldvrede.
the protest politics of Bella Abzug
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Zarnow, Leandra Ruth
- Publish Year
- 2019
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 ABZ 2019 - B
- Thesaurus
- politici, vrouwenbewegingen, vredesbeweging, homobewegingen, vrouwenorganisaties, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The 1970 congressional election season saw Abzug campaigning on the slogan “This Woman’s Place Is in the House?the House of Representatives.” Having won her seat, she advanced the feminist agenda in ways big and small, from gaining full access for congresswomen to the House swimming pool to cofounding the National Women’s Political Caucus to putting the title “Ms.” into the political lexicon. Beyond women’s rights, “Sister Bella” promoted gay rights, privacy rights, and human rights, and pushed legislation relating to urban, environmental, and foreign affairs.
the long road to internationalism
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Gwinn, Kristen E.
- Publish Year
- 2010
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 BAL 2010 - B
- Thesaurus
- vredesbeweging, identiteit, internationale organisaties, globalisering, migratie, prijzen, vrouwenorganisaties, WILPF, biografie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- Emily Greene Balch was an important Progressive Era reformer and advocate for world peace. Balch served as a professor of economics and sociology at Wellesley College for twenty years until her opposition to World War I resulted with the board of trustees to refusing to renew her contract. Afterwards, Balch continued to emphasize the importance of international institutions for preventing and reconciling conflicts. She was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize in 1946 for her efforts in cofounding and leading the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). In tracing Balch's work at Wellesley, for the WILPF, and for other peace movements, Gwinn illuminates Balch's ideas on negotiated peace, internationalism, global citizenship, and diversity while providing pointed insight into her multifaceted career, philosophy, and temperament. Detailing Balch's academic research on Slavic immigration and her arguments for greater cultural and monetary cohesion in Europe, Gwinn shows how Balch's scholarship and teaching reflected her philosophical development.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Howe, Florence
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 HOW 2011 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, vrouwenstudies, feminisme, vredesbeweging, mensenrechten, zwarte vrouwen, uitgeverijen, biografie, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- The founder of the Feminist Press offers an account of her accomplished life. There's her personal life: growing up in a working-class family in Brooklyn in the 1930s, her marriages: her desire for children and laborious building of a family of close friends, adopted teenage black daughter, and stepsons. Then there's her professional life: teaching, civil rights and antiwar activism, development of women's studies, and her most important project, the Feminist Press, started 40 years ago. Her private and professional lives sometimes intersect, especially in her chapter 'Becoming a Feminist,' but usually she deals with these parts of her life separately. Howe is most enlightening in describing her childhood, with a mother who doted on her son but often treated Howe harshly (perhaps to teach her how hard a woman's life is). Yet after her mother's death, Howe finds that her mother had kept every piece of paper reflecting Howe's achievements. Howe is most comfortable writing about her work with the Feminist Press, as well as her travels to international conferences.
Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American civil rights activist and Texas feminist
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Orozco, Cynthia E.
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 SLO 2020
- Thesaurus
- vredesbeweging, mensenrechten, Mexicaans, Verenigde Staten, Mexico, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- The essayist Adela Sloss-Vento (1901-1998) was a powerhouse of activism in South Texas's Lower Rio Grande Valley throughout the Mexican American civil rights movement beginning in 1920 and the subsequent Chicano movement of the 1960s and 1970s. . .This book revives the history of a major female Latina leader. Bringing to light the economic and political transformations that swept through South Texas in the 1920s as ranching declined and agribusiness proliferated, the author situates Sloss-Vento's early years within the context of the Jim Crow/Juan Crow era. . .The author also highlights a partnership with Alonso S. Perales, the principal founder of the League of United Latin American Citizens. It was such a contradiction for her to tolerate LULAC's gender-segregated chapters as Sloss-Vento was an outspoken critic of male privilege in the home and a decidedly progressive wife and mother.
pioneering feminist, pacifist sociologist
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- McGonigal, Kathryn
- Creator
- Galliher, John F.
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 ELL 2009 - B
- Thesaurus
- wetenschappelijke beroepen, sociologie, feminisme, vredesbeweging, pioniers, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, biografie
- Description
- A history of the life and career of Mabel Agnes Elliott (1898-1990), American sociologist. In addition to her career as a sociologist, she was a feminist and a pacifist. Among her many achievements, she was the first woman to be elected President of the Society for the Study of Social Problems in 1957.
a memoir of the war years, 1960-1975
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B1640 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vredesbeweging, verzetsbeweging, Cuba, Zuid-Afrika, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, biografie
- Description
- Dunbar-Ortiz looks back on her earlier life at the forefront of the feminist movement and as publisher of the feminist journal No More Fun and Games. She recalls her life as a revolutionary in a period of social and political tumult, and the creation of the women's rights movement in the midst of the antiwar and civil rights struggles. Dunbar-Ortiz was a timid housewife when she left Oklahoma for California with her husband. As she developed and grew, she became enamored of feminist politics and eventually left her husband and young daughter for a peripatetic life of traveling, writing, teaching, and speaking out against oppression across the U.S and in Cuba and South Africa. She recalls her personal struggle to reconcile within herself the various frictions of the feminist, black-power, antiwar, and leftist groups. This masterful insider look at radical activism in the 1960s and 1970s is a follow-up to her memoir Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997).
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