U.S. women's history : untangling the threads of sisterhood / edited by Leslie Brown, Jacqueline Castledine, and Anne Valk ; foreword by Deborah Gray White.

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Foreword; Preface: A Feminist Way of Being-Celebrating Nancy A. Hewitt; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One: Searching for Sisterhood; Chapter 1: Cleaning Race: Irish Immigrant and Southern Black Domestic Workers in the Northeast United States, 1865-1930; Chapter 2: "By Any Means Necessary": The National Council of Negro Women's Flexible Loyalties in the Black Power Era; Chapter 3: "This Is Like Family": Activist-Survivor Histories and Motherwork; Part Two: Challenging Established Narratives.

Chapter 4: The Maid and Mr. Charlie: Rosa Parks and the Struggle for Black Women's Bodily IntegrityChapter 5: Cold War History as Women's History; Chapter 6: "I'm Gonna Get You": Black Womanhood and Jim Crow Justice in the Post-Civil Rights South; Part Three: Rethinking Feminism; Chapter 7: Gender Expression in Antebellum America: Accessing the Privileges and Freedoms of White Men; Chapter 8: When a "Sister" Is a Mother: Maternal Thinking and Feminist Action, 1967-1980; Chapter 9: Contested Geography: The Campaign against Pornography and the Battle for Urban Space in Minneapolis.

Chapter 10: Remembering Together: Take Back the Night and the Public Memory of FeminismSelected Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.

Spanning the antebellum era to the present day, the ten original essays in U.S. Women's History represent a cross-section of current scholarship, examining both the causes that have united American women and the conflicts that have divided them. The book offers a fresh take on familiar events and figures, from Rosa Parks to Take Back the Night marches, while vividly conveying the multi-textured and multi-hued tapestry that is U.S. women's history.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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