...In the late 1960s, black and white women were both inspired and disillusioned by the movements for social change. The centuries-long struggle for gender equality was reinvigorated by their experiences within civil rights, Black Power, and newly formed student organizations. Fannie Lou Hamer...

...This chapter examines the role of white women in the lynching narrative and the kinds of cultural power that could be obtained from being objectified as property. It looks at Richard Wright’s creative series of lynching texts, all of which have a white woman at their center, and the way lynchings...

...This chapter examines the participation of white women in direct action protests in Memphis in the years 1955–1964. It looks at how Memphis’s white women became involved in the civil rights movement through the back door, through volunteer and religious organizations. It also considers...

...This chapter examines the involvement of white women, including housewives and mothers, in volunteer activities in the years leading up to the modern civil rights movement. It considers how married middle- and upper-class white women of the postwar period engaged in volunteer work, which took...

...This chapter examines the role of religion in drawing white women into civil rights activism in Memphis. It looks at a number of women central to Memphis’s civil rights movement who began their journey into social reform from a deep-seated religious faith. It focuses on the work of two influential...

...This chapter examines how white women in Memphis used Martin Luther King Jr.’s death as a motivation to pursue racial reform. It looks at organizations that played a central role in Memphis’s white female activist community in the aftermath of King’s assassination and the resolution of the 1968...

..., and the death of Elton Hayes, the city’s activists shifted their attention to proposed busing of the city’s schoolchildren. This chapter examines the role of white women activists in the battle over the busing of Memphis’s public schools. It looks at the work of the Memphis Community Relations Commission...

...This chapter examines the participation of white women in the strike staged by sanitation workers of Memphis in 1968. It looks at these women’s activities, such as orchestrating individual acts of support and more formal involvement in the struggle. It focuses on one woman present throughout...

...This chapter examines the resistance encountered by white women activists in Memphis from the community, their friends and family members, and from other activists in the struggle for racial justice. Animosity toward these women intensified throughout the 1960s and peaked in the wake...

...The generation of white women mentioned in this book were motivated by an awareness of the interconnectedness of race, class, and gender to become involved in the civil rights movement in Memphis. Although they initially refused to characterize their work as political activism, these women effected...

... and the Fury The 12 Million Black Voices Black Belt sharecropping Kreyling Michael Childs Erica Chito Southern Modernism White Women Lynching Racial Tropes Eudora Welty In the late 1930s, opposing discourses were attempting to shape public perceptions of southern black male laborers. On one end...

... to white women, specifically locating their imagined role in their own redemption in their negotiation of their relationship to property through narratives of lynching and sexual violence. Doing so reveals how white masculine victimization was built on constructing and then displacing white feminine...

... but also enslaved women, free black women, and white women of poor to modest means—who were constrained, but not immobilized, by the patriarchal order. These women were crucial in creating and regulating social relationships and customary norms that were central in governing the public order...

...This chapter examines how the New Left received the social struggles of white women; how that struggle opened new vistas for the New Left, particularly female members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS); and how, simultaneously, the pull of traditional American gender relations distorted...

... would soon join the fray. This book examines the role of a generation of white women, including wives and mothers, in Memphis in the struggle for racial equality and their contributions to the civil rights movement. It considers how these white women’s involvement in civil rights activism contributed...

...“You must be from the North,” was a common, derogatory reaction to the activities of white women throughout the South, well-meaning wives and mothers who joined together to improve schools or local sanitation but found their efforts decried as more troublesome civil rights agitation. This book...

.... Oprah’s appeal to women, white women in particular, is her ability to filter white, New Age ideas in gendered terms that are legitimized through race. New Earth Awakening to Your Life’s Potential A Public sphere Tolle Eckart church Lesser Elizabeth Oprah Winfrey Show The TOWS spirituality changes...

...In this chapter, Wendy K. Z. Anderson frames the arguments she will make in Rebirthing a Nation: White Women, Identity Politics, and the Internet. Anderson further lists the questions she will unpack in the following chapters. These include: What is the state of white supremacy...

...Rebirthing a Nation unmasks how white nationalist women refine racism through colorblind values, ideologies, and classifications to validate, promote, and sustain a white identity politic. Analyzing web rhetorics of white nationalist, alt-right, and conservative white women, Wendy...