All bound up together : the woman question in African American public culture, 1830-1900 / Martha S. Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Martha S.

Series:

John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.

The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women political activists--History--19th century.

African American women political activists.

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

African American women.

African American women--Social conditions--19th century.

Sex role--United States--History--19th century.

Sex role.

Women's rights--United States--History--19th century.

Women's rights.

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

Feminism.

African Americans--Politics and government--19th century.

African Americans.

Community life--United States--History--19th century.

Community life.

African Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

United States--Race relations--History--19th century.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities' social movements and the consequences of elevating women into positions of visibility and leadership. Martha Jones reveals how, through the nineteenth century, the ""woman question"" was at the core of movements against slavery and for civil rights.Unlike white women activists, who often created their own institutions separate from men, black

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Chapter One: Female Influence Is Powerful: Respectability, Responsibility, and Setting the Terms of the Woman Question Debate; Chapter Two: Right Is of No Sex: Reframing the Debate through the Rights of Women; Chapter Three: Not a Woman's Rights Convention: Remaking Public Culture in the Era of Dred Scott v. Sanford; Chapter Four: Something Very Novel and Strange: Civil War, Emancipation, and the Remaking of African American Public Culture; Chapter Five: Make Us a Power: Churchwomen's Politics and the Campaign for Women's Rights

Chapter Six: Too Much Useless Male Timber: The Nadir, the Woman's Era, and the Question of Women's OrdinationConclusion; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-300) and index.

ISBN:

979-88-9313-262-5

979-88-908815-3-3

1-4696-0501-5

0-8078-8890-7

OCLC:

647832684