Drastic Dykes And Accidental Activists

Author : La Shonda Mims
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469670560

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Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists by La Shonda Mims Pdf

After World War II, Atlanta and Charlotte emerged as leading urban centers in the South, redefining the region through their competing metropolitan identities. Both cities also served as home to queer communities who defined themselves in accordance with their urban surroundings and profited to varying degrees from the emphasis on economic growth. Uniting southern women's history with urban history, La Shonda Mims considers an imaginatively constructed archive including feminist newsletters and queer bar guides alongside sources revealing corporate boosterism and political rhetoric to explore the complex nature of lesbian life in the South. Mims's work reveals significant differences between gay men's and lesbian women's lived experiences, with lesbians often missing out on the promises of prosperity that benefitted some members of gay communities. Money, class, and race were significant variables in shaping the divergent life experiences for the lesbian communities of Atlanta and Charlotte; whiteness especially bestowed certain privileges. In Atlanta, an inclusive corporate culture bolstered the city's queer community. In Charlotte, tenacious lesbian collectives persevered, as many queer Charlotteans leaned on Atlanta's enormous Pride celebrations for sanctuary when similar institutional community supports were lacking at home.

Author : Julie A. Gallagher,Barbara Winslow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780252050749

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Reshaping Women's History by Julie A. Gallagher,Barbara Winslow Pdf

Award-winning women scholars from nontraditional backgrounds have often negotiated an academic track that leads through figurative--and sometimes literal--minefields. Their life stories offer inspiration, but also describe heartrending struggles and daunting obstacles. Reshaping Women's History presents autobiographical essays by eighteen accomplished scholar-activists who persevered through poverty or abuse, medical malpractice or family disownment, civil war or genocide. As they illuminate their own unique circumstances, the authors also address issues all-too-familiar to women in the academy: financial instability, the need for mentors, explaining gaps in resumes caused by outside events, and coping with gendered family demands, biases, and expectations. Eye-opening and candid, Reshaping Women's History shows how adversity, and the triumph over it, enriches scholarship and spurs extraordinary efforts to affect social change. Contributors: Frances L. Buss, Nupur Chaudhuri, Lisa DiCaprio, Julie R. Enszer, Catherine Fosl, Midori Green, La Shonda Mims, Stephanie Moore, Grey Osterud, Barbara Ransby, Linda Reese, Annette Rodriguez, Linda Rupert, Kathleen Sheldon, Donna Sinclair, Rickie Solinger, Pamela Stewart, Waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy, and Ann Marie Wilson.

Author : Jennifer Dominique Jones
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469673578

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Ambivalent Affinities by Jennifer Dominique Jones Pdf

In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of civil rights organizations, Black liberal elected officials, segregationists, and far right radicals. Deployed in complex and at times contradictory ways, political ideas about homosexuality (and later, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender subjects) became tethered to conceptualizations of Blackness and racial equality. In this interdisciplinary historical study, Jennifer Dominique Jones reveals the underexamined origins of comparisons between Black and LGBT political constituencies in the modern civil rights movement and white supremacist backlash. Foregrounding an intersectional framing of postwar political histories, Jones demonstrates how the shared non-normative status of Blackness and homosexuality facilitated comparisons between subjects and political visions associated with both. Drawing upon organizational records, manuscript collections, newspaper accounts, and visual and textual ephemera, this study traces a long, conflicting relationship between Black and LGBT political identities that continues to the present day.

Author : María Cristina Moroles,Lauri Umansky
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781610758079

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Águila by María Cristina Moroles,Lauri Umansky Pdf

In Águila: The Vision, Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, María Cristina Moroles traces the path of her extraordinary life from the streets of Dallas to the wilderness of the Arkansas Ozarks, where she has resided for fifty years. Hailing from a large Indigenous and Mexican American family in Texas, Moroles apprentices herself to healers and shamans across the Americas as she follows the spiritual vision that leads her to establish a mountaintop sanctuary for women and children of color in a notoriously insular location in the Ozark Mountains. This is a survivor’s tale, and a back-to-the-lander’s tale, unlike any other. From early traumas to countercultural rebellion and profound spiritual awakening, Moroles recounts milestones that earn her the ceremonial names SunHawk and Águila, as she builds a sustainable community off the grid, atop a mountain otherwise uninhabited by human life. Águila tells the truth of one woman’s search for freedom and all women’s quest for dignity as it celebrates the healing powers of nature.

Author : Jaime Harker
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781469643366

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The Lesbian South by Jaime Harker Pdf

In this book, Jaime Harker uncovers a largely forgotten literary renaissance in southern letters. Anchored by a constellation of southern women, the Women in Print movement grew from the queer union of women's liberation, civil rights activism, gay liberation, and print culture. Broadly influential from the 1970s through the 1990s, the Women in Print movement created a network of writers, publishers, bookstores, and readers that fostered a remarkable array of literature. With the freedom that the Women in Print movement inspired, southern lesbian feminists remade southernness as a site of intersectional radicalism, transgressive sexuality, and liberatory space. Including in her study well-known authors—like Dorothy Allison and Alice Walker—as well as overlooked writers, publishers, and editors, Harker reconfigures the southern literary canon and the feminist canon, challenging histories of feminism and queer studies to include the south in a formative role.

Author : Lucy Sargisson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134767656

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Contemporary Feminist Utopianism by Lucy Sargisson Pdf

A new and challenging entry into the debates between feminism and postmodernism, Contemporary Feminist Utopianism challenges some basic preconceptions about the role of political theory today. Sargisson explores current debates within utopian studies, feminist theory and poststructuralist deconstruction. Utopian thinking is offered as a route out of the dilemma of contemporary feminism as well as a way of conceptualizing its current situation. This book provides an exploration of, and exercise in, utopian thought.

Author : Thavolia Glymph
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : United States
ISBN : 9798890870322

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The Women's Fight by Thavolia Glymph Pdf

Historians of the Civil War often speak of 'wars within a war' - the military fight, wartime struggles on the home front, and the political and moral battle to preserve the Union and end slavery. In this broadly conceived book, Thavolia Glymph provides a comprehensive new history of women's roles and lives in the Civil War - North and South, white and black, slave and free - showing how women were essentially and fully engaged in all three arenas. Glymph focuses on the ideas and ideologies that drove women's actions, allegiances, and politics.

Author : James Thomas Sears
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0813529646

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Rebels, Rubyfruit, and Rhinestones by James Thomas Sears Pdf

Publisher Fact Sheet. A richly told history of queer Southern life in the 1970s, after the Stonewall uprising.

Author : R W Clinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1687212147

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Under His Sheets by R W Clinger Pdf

Eight gay stories. Tales of sex, lust, hardship, family life and love, all of which have a gay theme. Stories include: IN THE ZONE -- HIPPIE-LUST -- VIDEO VOYEUR -- BAD ELVES -- DADDY DEAREST -- TALES FROM THE REAR DOOR -- GETTING WHAT HE WANTS -- PLAYING PROFESSOR PETERSON.

Author : Gregory Samantha Rosenthal
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781469665818

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Living Queer History by Gregory Samantha Rosenthal Pdf

Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desire to celebrate the past by erecting plaques and painting rainbow crosswalks, but queer and trans people in the twenty-first century need more than just symbols—they need access to power, justice for marginalized people, spaces of belonging. Approaching the past through a lens of queer and trans survival and world-building transforms history itself into a tool for imagining and realizing a better future. Living Queer History tells the story of an LGBTQ community in Roanoke, Virginia, a small city on the edge of Appalachia. Interweaving &8239;historical analysis, theory, and memoir, Gregory Samantha Rosenthal tells the story of their own journey—coming out and transitioning as a transgender woman—in the midst of working on a community-based history project that documented a multigenerational southern LGBTQ community. Based on over forty interviews with LGBTQ elders, Living Queer History explores how queer people today think about the past and how history lives on in the present.

Author : Kyle T. Mays
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807011683

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An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays Pdf

The first intersectional history of the Black and Native American struggle for freedom in our country that also reframes our understanding of who was Indigenous in early America Beginning with pre-Revolutionary America and moving into the movement for Black lives and contemporary Indigenous activism, Afro-Indigenous historian Kyle T. Mays argues that the foundations of the US are rooted in antiblackness and settler colonialism, and that these parallel oppressions continue into the present. He explores how Black and Indigenous peoples have always resisted and struggled for freedom, sometimes together, and sometimes apart. Whether to end African enslavement and Indigenous removal or eradicate capitalism and colonialism, Mays show how the fervor of Black and Indigenous peoples calls for justice have consistently sought to uproot white supremacy. Mays uses a wide-array of historical activists and pop culture icons, “sacred” texts, and foundational texts like the Declaration of Independence and Democracy in America. He covers the civil rights movement and freedom struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, and explores current debates around the use of Native American imagery and the cultural appropriation of Black culture. Mays compels us to rethink both our history as well as contemporary debates and to imagine the powerful possibilities of Afro-Indigenous solidarity. Includes an 8-page photo insert featuring Kwame Ture with Dennis Banks and Russell Means at the Wounded Knee Trials; Angela Davis walking with Oren Lyons after he leaves Wounded Knee, SD; former South African president Nelson Mandela with Clyde Bellecourt; and more.

Author : Chris Harman
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786630810

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A People's History of the World by Chris Harman Pdf

Building on A People’s History of the United States, this radical world history captures the broad sweep of human history from the perspective of struggling classes. An “indispensable volume” on class and capitalism throughout the ages—for readers reckoning with the history they were taught and history as it truly was (Howard Zinn) From the earliest human societies to the Holy Roman Empire, from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment, from the Industrial Revolution to the end of the twentieth century, Chris Harman provides a brilliant and comprehensive history of the human race. Eschewing the standard accounts of “Great Men,” of dates and kings, Harman offers a groundbreaking counter-history, a breathtaking sweep across the centuries in the tradition of “history from below.” In a fiery narrative, he shows how ordinary men and women were involved in creating and changing society and how conflict between classes was often at the core of these developments. While many scholars see the victory of capitalism as now safely secured, Harman explains the rise and fall of societies and civilizations throughout the ages and demonstrates that history moves ever onward in every age. A vital corrective to traditional history, A People's History of the World is essential reading for anyone interested in how society has changed and developed and the possibilities for further radical progress.

Author : Diana E. H. Russell,Nicole Van de Ven
Publisher : Millbrae, Calif. : Les Femmes Pub.
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0890879214

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Crimes Against Women by Diana E. H. Russell,Nicole Van de Ven Pdf

Author : Denise Thompson
Publisher : Spinifex Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0646041967

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Reading Between the Lines by Denise Thompson Pdf

A comprehensive survey of the development of feminist theories of sexuality from The Feminine Mystique to the current debates. It examines the sexual culture of patriarchy and early radical feminist theory around lesbianism, heterosexuality and celibacy.

Author : Kai Linke
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839449172

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Good White Queers? by Kai Linke Pdf

How do white queer people portray our own whiteness? Can we, in the stories we tell about ourselves, face the uncomfortable fact that, while queer, we might still be racist? If we cannot, what does that say about us as potential allies in intersectional struggles? A careful analysis of Dykes To Watch Out For and Stuck Rubber Baby by queer comic icons Alison Bechdel and Howard Cruse traces the intersections of queerness and racism in the neglected medium of queer comics, while a close reading of Jaime Cortez's striking graphic novel Sexile/Sexilio offers glimpses of the complexities and difficult truths that lie beyond the limits of the white queer imaginary.