Search Results - "Feministing"

Alva Vanderbilt Belmont unlikely champion of women's rights / by Hoffert, Sylvia D.

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Making love modern the intimate public worlds of New York's literary women / by Miller, Nina, 1958-

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Living the revolution Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 / by Guglielmo, Jennifer, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Women's cultures of resistance in Southern Italy -- La sartina (the seamstress) becomes a transnational labor migrant -- The racialization of Southern Italian women -- Surviving the shock of arrival and everyday resistance -- Anarchist feminists and the radical subculture -- The 1909-1919 strike wave and the birth of industrial unionism -- Red scare, the lure of fascism, and diasporic resistance -- Community organizing in a racial hall of mirrors.…”
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Lady Dicks and Lesbian Brothers : Staging the Unimaginable at the WOW Cafe Theater / by Davy, Kate

Table of Contents: “…Introducing WOW: "A miracle on E. 4th Street" -- Women are laughing again: allied faces -- Sex, drag, and rock 'n' roles: the festivals -- Feminist space and a system of anarchy: the storefront -- Staging the unimaginable: New York's East Village club scene -- Challenging whiteness: the fourth-floor walk-up -- "Learning to walk on our hands" -- Appendix: WOW Production history.…”
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Pursuing Johns : Criminal Law Reform, Defending Character, and New York City's Committee of Fourteen, 1920-1930 / by Mackey, Thomas C., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…"To live correctly": themes and the significance of character -- "Only the Barbarian waits": New York City's committee of fourteen -- Drifted: feminist reformers and prostitution's changes in the twenties -- "The time has come": vagrancy law, police procedure, and proceeding against the customers -- People v. …”
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Fault lines : a memoir / by Alexander, Meena, 1951-

Rape New York by Leo, Jana, 1965-

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