Search results
2 days ago · As scholars have demonstrated, the politics of “respectability”—the combination of morality, sexual purity, modesty, thrift, and hard work—were central to middle-class African American women’s behavior and image in the early 20th century, as many believed it was essential to racial progress and equality. 37 Using the visual power of photography to convey middle-class notions of black respectability, the black press presented portraits of “accomplished, beautiful, intelligent ...
1 day ago · Melnick, Senda Berenson: The Unlikely Founder of Women’s Basketball., 76, 77. 21. Linda J. Borish, “Women, Sport and American Jewish Identity in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries,” in With God on their Side: Sport in the Service of Religion, ed. Timothy Chandler and Tara Magdalinski (New York: Routledge, 2002). 22.
2 days ago · The early women's suffrage movement had drawn inspiration from the political egalitarianism of Iroquois society. Native American women and men were nominally granted the right to vote in 1924 with the passage of the Indian Citizenship Act.
4 days ago · Authors, female and male, have always relished telling women what to do. This plentiful advice literature prescribes proper behavior for women at every stage of their lives. Nineteenth-century books on girlhood stress obedience and filial devotion as they point the way to the adult “woman's sphere” where
5 days ago · Manuscripts, newspapers, diaries, maps, artwork, photographs, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact with European settlers up to the mid-20th century. Cross-searchable with The American West database. This database was previously titled American Indian Histories and Cultures.
- Matt Johnson
- 2013
5 days ago · Gender Studies. 20th Century Women and Gender Studies Sources. The following resources are major tools for finding digitized texts related to the history of women and gender. Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000.
Jun 27, 2024 · Seen through women’s eyes, nineteenth century southern social history takes on new dimensions. Subjects that were of only passing interest when historians depended on documents created by men now move to center stage.
