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Student Showcase – Equal in the Eyes of God: Civil Rights Activist Joan Trumpauer Mulholland

August 6, 2014

Alexis SpeerNimitz High SchoolSenior DivisionIndividual Website Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, John Lewis–these are all familiar names in the history of America’s Civil Rights Movement. But what about Joan Trumpauer Mulholland? A white woman raised in the Deep South, Mulholland became active in non-violent campaigns against racial segregation. In addition to participating in numerous sit-ins, […]

On Women and Nation in India

March 1, 2014

More books on women and colonialism in Northeast India.

Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject by Saba Mahmood (2004)

March 3, 2013

An ardent feminist and leftist scholar, Mahmood assumed a certain degree of internalized subordination in women who find solace and meaning in deeply patriarchal traditions. Yet, over the course of two years listening to and learning from several religious revival groups run by da’iyat (female “callers”), she discovered an entirely different understanding of religious devotion.

Boxing Shadows, by W.K. Stratton with Anissa “The Assassin” Zamarron (2009)

August 10, 2012

Movie poster of the movie Boxing Shadows

In November 2005, Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron entered the ring for one of her most important bouts: a chance to win the Women's International Boxing Association junior flyweight title.

Title IX: Empowerment Through Education

June 1, 2012

In 1972, the U.S. Congress passed Title IX to end discrimination against women in education.

Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England by Jane Kamensky (1999)

December 6, 2011

Governing the Tongue discusses the importance of verbal communication in seventeenth-century New England society. Kamensky argues that early settlers were uniquely preoccupied with the act of speech and held to specific but unwritten rules about correct speaking.

The Help

August 12, 2011

Historical films and books always distort the historical record for dramatic purposes. Sometimes that doesn't matter and sometimes it does. The Help, a best-selling book and now a film playing nationwide, elicited this statement from the Association of Black Women Historians.

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