Nine Women - Portraits From the American Radical Tradition

Historian Judith Nies highlights the lives of nine women who worked effectively to give women equal rights and access to public life in the U.S., and she writes of women whose environmental activism has been crucial in the ongoing effort to preserve biological diversity on our earth.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the 2002 Edition

Introduction
Sarah Moore Grimke
Harriet Tubman
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Mother Jones
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Anna Louise Strong
Dorothy Day
Fanny Lou Hamer
Bella Savitsky Abzug
Women and the Environmental Movement
Epilogue: The Legacy of the Radical Tradition

Further Readings and Individual Bibliographies
Selected Bibliography on Women, Radicals, and Historiography
Updated Bibliography
Index

About the author

Judith Nies is an author, essayist, and teacher. In addition to this book (first published as Seven Women), she is the author of Native American History (1996). Her essays have been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Progressive, American Voice, Orion, and Harvard Review.

Summary

A history of American women activists. It features biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a chapter on women environmental activists.

Additional text

"Readers will be remembering a long time the vivid Mary Harris Jones, 'Mother Jones,' organizing coal miners . . . remarkable for insight are Nies's essays on Dorothy Day and Charlotte Perkins Gilman."

Product details

• Authors: Judith Nies, Nies Judith
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2002
• EAN: 9780520229655
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22965-5
• No. of pages: 364
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; USA, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Activists, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Women in Politics, Political activism, United States of America, USA, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Political activism / Political engagement