What is it about?
This edited collection looks primarily at the role of women in the civil rights movement but with one essay explicitly on the tension between race and gender in terms of masculinity. Wide ranging it also considers the importance of gender in rap music and in African American Congressional leadership.
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Why is it important?
This remains one of the ground-breaking collections on the topic.
Perspectives
Women were numerically the majority of active members of the civil rights movement. Yet they have only belatedly achieved historical recollection. Their exclusion from formal leadership positions reflected male chauvinism and also the extent to which the quest for racial equality became entangled in the struggle for female equality.
Emeritus Professor Peter John Ling
University of Nottingham
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This page is a summary of: Gender in the Civil Rights Movement, March 2014, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315052762.
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