Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword ix
4. Preface: A Feminist Way of Being— Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt xiii
5. Acknowledgments xxi
6. Introduction 1
7. PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR SISTERHOOD
8. 1. Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865–1930 13
9. 2. “By Any Means Necessary”: The National Council of Negro Women’s Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era 32
10. 3. “This Is Like Family”: Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork 49
11. PART TWO: CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED NARRATIVES
12. 4. The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women’s Bodily Integrity 67
13. 5. Cold War History as Women’s History 83
14. 6. “I’m Gonna Get You”: Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post–Civil Rights South 98
15. PART THREE. RETHINKING FEMINISM
16. 7. Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men 127
17. 8. When a “Sister” Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967–1980 147
18. 9. Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis 166
19. 10. Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of Feminism 186
20. Selected Bibliography 207
21. Notes on Contributors 213
22. index 219