Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, this book vividly convey the long histories and ongoing relevance of topics ranging from women's immigration to incarceration, from acts of cross-dressing to the activism of feminist mothers.

Table of Contents

• Foreword - DEBRAH GRAUY WHITE
• Preface: A Feminist Way of Being— Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt - PAULA J. GIDDINGS
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction - LESLIE BROWN
• PART ONE: SEARCHING FOR SISTERHOOD
• 1. Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865–1930 - DANIELLE PHILLIPS
• 2. “By Any Means Necessary”: The National Council of Negro Women's Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era - REBECCA TUURI
• 3. “This Is Like Family”: Activist- Survivor Histories and Motherwork - ARIELLA ROTRAMEL
• PART TWO: CHALLENGING ESTABLISHED NARRATIVES
• 4. The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women's Bodily Integrity - DANIELLE L. MCGUIRE
• 5. Cold War History as Women's History - JACQUELINE CASTLEDINE
• 6. “I'm Gonna Get You”: Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post–Civil Rights South - Christina Greene
• PART THREE: RETHINKING FEMINISM
• 7. Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men - JEN MANION
• 8. When a “Sister” Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967–1980 - Andrea Estepa
• 9. Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis - KIRSTEN DELEGARD
• 10. Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of Feminism - Anne Valk
• Selected Bibliography
• Notes on Contributors