Documents the trials and joys of nineteenth-century Black women and suggests new ways of perceiving Black women, their relations with others, and their attitudes toward family ...

Revolt Against Chivalry, winner of the Frances B. Simkins and Lillian Smith Awards, is the classic account of how Jessie Daniel Ames - and the antilynching campaign she led ...

Details the struggle for women's voting rights, one of the great social movements in American history.

It has long been argued that women, especially black women, have been relegated to a second-class status in American society, and despite modern advances remain subject to a ...

Feminist Theory established bell hooks as one of international feminism’s most challenging and influential voices. This edition includes a new preface by the author, reflecting ...