This revised and expanded edition comprises some of the most ground-breaking work in women's and feminist history. Addressing issues of race, ethnicity, religion, and sexuality, it provides a more accurate and inclusive history of US women.
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DuBois and Ruiz, with Unequal Sisters, provide us with the bricks we need to build a solid house of womens history in America. They have been guided not only by a desire for range of inclusion and for the significant, but, happily, for the eminently readable as well. -- Belle Lettres
From here on in, anyone wishing to teach or learn about U.S. history will have to turn to Unequal Sisters. -- The Guardian
Unequal Sisters makes a major contribution because it begins to fill the obvious gap of interpreting the roles and cultural interactions of minority women whose lives complete the mosaic of American womens history. -- The Bloomsbury Review
By looking at Native American, African American, Asian American, Latina, working-class and lesbian women in various circumstances and historical contexts, this massive collection provides rich analyses of the diverse textures in what it means to be female. -- Ms. Magazine
What most distinguishes Unequal Sisters is that it conveys the extraordinariness of everyday life, its moments of self-recognition, accomplishment, and empowerment. -- The Village Voice
. . . the best single volume in this area is the second edition ofUnequal Sisters . . . The essays not only cover the historical experiences of women of color, working-class women, and others often excluded from mainstream womens history, but they also examine the relationships among women from different groups . . . -- Elaine Tyler May, Ms.
To expand and make our view of feminist consciousness more inclusive, we turn to the second edition of Unequal Sisters. This collection of thirty-six articles, more than half new to this edition, focuses on the intersection of race and gender in womens history. This volume is an antidote to a unilateral view of feminism that often ignores women of color and those of different classes and cultures. It presents a wide range of people, places and concerns, historical and contemporary, respecting both the differences and the sense of sisterhood among us. Hearing the voices of those who are, in the words of one author, integrated but still marginalized, helps to diminish the distances between us. The four bibliographies on African-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American women alone are reason enough to purchase the book. -- Wilson Library Bulletin
... the second edition of Unequal Sisters stands as a testimony to the efforts of DuBois and Ruiz to include new articles that discuss both the history of ethnic women left out in the first edition ... -- Book Reviews
DuBois and Ruiz, with Unequal Sisters, provide us with the bricks we need to build a solid house of womens history in America. They have been guided not only by a desire for range of inclusion and for the significant, but, happily, for the eminently readable as well. -- Belle Lettres
From here on in, anyone wishing to teach or learn about U.S. history will have to turn to Unequal Sisters. -- The Guardian
Unequal Sisters makes a major contribution because it begins to fill the obvious gap of interpreting the roles and cultural interactions of minority women whose lives complete the mosaic of American womens history. -- The Bloomsbury Review
By looking at Native American, African American, Asian American, Latina, working-class and lesbian women in various circumstances and historical contexts, this massive collection provides rich analyses of the diverse textures in what it means to be female. -- Ms. Magazine
What most distinguishes Unequal Sisters is that it conveys the extraordinariness of everyday life, its moments of self-recognition, accomplishment, and empowerment. -- The Village Voice
. . . the best single volume in this area is the second edition ofUnequal Sisters . . . The essays not only cover the historical experiences of women of color, working-class women, and others often excluded from mainstream womens history, but they also examine the relationships among women from different groups . . . -- Elaine Tyler May, Ms.
To expand and make our view of feminist consciousness more inclusive, we turn to the second edition of Unequal Sisters. This collection of thirty-six articles, more than half new to this edition, focuses on the intersection of race and gender in womens history. This volume is an antidote to a unilateral view of feminism that often ignores women of color and those of different classes and cultures. It presents a wide range of people, places and concerns, historical and contemporary, respecting both the differences and the sense of sisterhood among us. Hearing the voices of those who are, in the words of one author, integrated but still marginalized, helps to diminish the distances between us. The four bibliographies on African-American, Asian American, Latino and Native American women alone are reason enough to purchase the book. -- Wilson Library Bulletin
... the second edition of Unequal Sisters stands as a testimony to the efforts of DuBois and Ruiz to include new articles that discuss both the history of ethnic women left out in the first edition ... -- Book Reviews
About the Author
Vicki L. Ruizis Professor of History and Chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Arizona State University and is the author of From Out of the Shadows: Mexican Women in Twentieth-Century America(1998) and Cannery Women, Cannery Lives(1987). Ellen Carol DuBois Professor of History at UCLA and is the author of Harriot Stanton Blatch and the Winning of Woman Suffrage(1997) and Feminism and Suffrage (1978).
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Were it not for this book, I seriously doubt I would have passed my women's history course. The editors were able to compile an impresive selection of scholarship that explained what my instructor could not. Women's accheivements struggles and setbacks could not be properly examined unless one made a serious committment to understanding the interrelated issues of race, class, disability and sexual orientation in relation to gender and the predominant traits of the larger society. While the early women's history movement has been faulted for being predominantly middle class heterosexual and white, this book attempts to build a more complete future by giving a voice to the issues. I wish everybody had access to this substantive piece of literature because it provides an excellent introductory and supplementary framework for research and even political organizing. While primarily intended for use in history courses, I believe it could be adapted for political science, sociology or even psychology.
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The third edition of this superb multicultural reader in U.S. women's history provides an essential work of powerful resources blending voices new to this edition with excellent feminist perspectives. Unequal Sisters includes over twenty new essays written by women in the six years since the last edition, with contributors ranging from Joyce Antler and Ellen Carol Dubois to Vicki L. Ruiz. A powerful presentation.
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women welfare activists, modernist racial ideology, institutional service work, woman suffragism, women lodgers, women jazz musicians, black women reformers, woman lodger, modern racial ideologies, black women leaders, beauty culturists, nisei women, housewife activists, slave kin, miscegenation cases, racial metaphors, partisan activism, issei women, black clubwomen, partisan women, labor journalist, southern black women, meat strike, occasional prostitution, meat boycott Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, African American, Los Angeles, New Mexico, San Francisco, Fall River, Emma Lazarus, South Carolina, American Indian, Oxford University Press, Betty Friedan, Puerto Rico, Mexican American, Ramabai Association, New England, Communist Party, North Carolina, Boyer Reinstein, University of Chicago Press, Betty Goldstein, Chapel Hill, Supreme Court, University of California Press, New Haven New!
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