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More copies of this ISBN:Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Traditionby Judith Nies
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Historian Judith Nies highlights the lives of nine women who worked effectively to give women equal rights and access to public life in the U.S., and she writes of women whose environmental activism has been crucial in the ongoing effort to preserve biological diversity on our earth. Synopsis:In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimke, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railway; Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the first woman to run for Congress, who advocated for women's rights to own property, to vote, and to divorce; Mother Jones, the Joan of Arc of the coalfields, one of the most inspiring voices of the American labor movement; Charlotte Perkins Gilman, who worked for the reform of two of America's most cherished institutions, the home and motherhood; Anna Louise Strong, an intrepid journalist who covered revolutions in Russia and China; and Dorothy Day, cofounder of the Catholic Worker movement, who fed and sheltered the hungry and homeless in New York's Bowery for more than forty years. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-330) and index.
Table of ContentsSarah Moore Grimké — Harriet Tubman — Elizabeth Cady Stanton — Mother Jones — Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Anna Louise Strong — Dorothy Day — Fanny Lou Hamer — Bella Savitsky Abzug — Women and the environmental movement — Epilogue: The legacy of the radical tradition.
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