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Gender and the Civil Rights Movement |  | Creators: Peter J. Ling, Sharon Monteith
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st Pbk. Ed
Pages: 288
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.6 x 5.4 x 0.7
ISBN: 0813534380
Dewey Decimal Number: 323.11960730082
EAN: 9780813534381
ASIN: 0813534380
Publication Date: April 26, 2004
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This collection of nine essays analyzes the people, the protests, and the incidents of the civil rights movement through the lens of gender. More than just a study of women, the book examines the ways in which assigned sexual roles and values shaped the strategy, tactics, and ideology of the movement. The essays deal with topics ranging from the Montgomery bus boycott and Rhythm and Blues to gangsta rap and contemporary fiction, from the 1950s to the 1990s. Referring to groups such as the National Council of African American Men and events such as the Million Man March, the authors address male gender identity as much as female, arguing that slave/master relations from before the Civil War continued to affect Black masculinity in the postwar battle for civil rights. Whereas feminism traditionally deals with issues of patriarchy and prescribed gender roles, this volume shows how race relations continue to complicate sex-based definitions within the civil rights movement
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