Estelle B Freedman
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Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Feminism has evolved from the abolitionist movement in the United States to a universal paradigm in the pursuit of full rights and equality for women everywhere. Here, feminism is identified along with how it effects every aspects of life, and the benefits it brings.
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Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
John D'Emilio and Estelle Freedman describe the different sexual worlds of plantation slaves, European immigrants, and the urban middle class, and how sexual matters moved from the privacy of the bedroom to its commercial exploitation and its entry into mass culture. The authors shed light on the complex nature of race, gender, and class inequality. They discuss such issues as white slavery and lynching, how sex has served as a symbol for a wide range...
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English
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During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military. InComing Out Under Fire, Allan Beacute;rubeacute; examines in depth and detail these social and political confrontations-not as a story of how the military victimized homosexuals, but as a story of how...