Autor: Hewitt Nancy A. Hewitt

In the 1970s, feminist slogans proclaimed Sisterhood is powerful, and women s historians searched through the historical archives to recover stories of solidarity and sisterhood. However, as feminist …

No Permanent Waves boldly enters the ongoing debates over the utility of the "wave" metaphor for capturing the complex history of women’s rights by offering fresh perspectives on the divers …

100 Years of Women’s Suffrage commemorates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment by bringing together essential scholarship on the women’s suffrage movement and women’s voting previously publish …

Committed abolitionist, controversial Quaker minister, tireless pacifist, fiery crusader for women’s rights–Lucretia Mott was one of the great reformers in America history. Her sixty years of sermon …

Women in the United States organized around their own sense of a distinct set of needs, skills, and concerns. And just as significant as women’s acting on their own behalf was the fact that race, cla …

This collection of fifteen insightful essays examines the complexity and diversity of Quaker antislavery attitudes across three centuries, from 1658 to 1890. Contributors from a range of disciplines, …