Press, platform, pulpit : Black feminist publics in the era of reform / Teresa Zackodnik.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zackodnik, Teresa C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--United States--History--19th century.

Feminism.

African American feminists--History--19th century.

African American feminists.

African American social reformers--History--19th century.

African American social reformers.

African American clergy--History--19th century.

African American clergy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (377 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Knoxville, Tenn. : University of Tennessee Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Press, Platform, Pulpit examines how early black feminism goes public by sheding new light on some of the major figures of early black feminism as well as bringing forward some lesser-known individuals who helped shape various reform movements. With a perspective unlike many other studies of black feminism, Teresa Zackodnik considers these activists as central, rather than marginal, to the politics of their day, and argues that black feminism reached critical mass well before the club movement's national federation at the turn into the twentieth century . Throughout, she s

Contents:

Going public : African American feminism in the era of reform

Soul winners and sanctified sisters : Nineteenth-Century African American preaching women

Internationalizing Black feminisms : Ellen Craft, Sarah Parker Remond, and American slavery in the British Isles and Ireland

"I don't know how you will feel when I get through" : racial difference, symbolic value, and sojourner truth

The platform, the pamphlet, and the press : Ida B. Wells's pedagogy of American lynching

"We must be up and doing": feminist Black nationalism in the press

Conclusion : feminist affiliations in a divisive climate : Anna Julia Cooper's "woman versus the Indian".

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613411716

9781283411714

1283411717

9781572338401

1572338407

OCLC:

772845094