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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Women and the Struggle for Liberation -- 2. Party Politics in the Transition to Democracy -- 3. Women's Integration in Parliament -- 4. Class Structure, Role Differentiation, and Gender Identities -- 5. Institutional and Legislative Transformation -- 6. Implementing Gender: The National Gender Machinery -- 7. The Second Generation: The Future of Women in Parliament -- Methodological Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Democratization in Africa: African Views, African Voices -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Background and Purpose of the Workshops -- 1 The Movement Toward Democracy in Africa -- IMPACT OF NEW EXTERNAL ACTORS -- COLONIAL LEGACY AND DEMOCRATIC DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICAN SOCIETIES -- DEMOCRACY AND AFRICAN VALUES -- POLITICAL LIBERALIZATION AND DEMOCRATIZATION -- 2 Transitions to Democracy in Africa -- MODES OF TRANSITION IN AFRICA -- FUNDAMENTAL CHALLENGES TO DEMOCRATIC TRANSITIONS -- The Cult of Personality -- Zero-Sum Politics -- The Military -- Managing Ethnicity -- The Role of Women -- PRECONDITIONS FOR DEMOCRACY -- Legal Order and Basic Rights -- Values of Democracy -- Competent State -- ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY -- Committed Minority -- Courage -- 3 Democracy and Governance in Africa -- GOVERNANCE AND AFRICAN POLITICS -- POPULAR PARTICIPATION -- NEED FOR ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY -- CORRUPTION -- FREEDOM OF INFORMATION AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- DECENTRALIZATION AND DEVOLUTION OF POWER -- MODES OF REPRESENTATION -- 4 Institutions Needed to Sustain Democracy -- CONSTITUTIONS -- RECONSTITUTING THE MILITARY -- INDEPENDENT COMMISSIONS -- TRANSNATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CENTER -- 5 Role of Extra-African Forces in Democratization -- PROBLEMS WITH AID IN AFRICA -- CHALLENGES FACED BY AFRICAN COUNTRIES -- ROLE OF DONORS IN DEMOCRATIZATION -- Assisting Political Change -- Removal of Dictators -- Reduction of Military Assistance -- Promotion of Civic Groups -- Improving Economic Conditions in Africa -- Forgiving Debt -- Reducing Western Trade Protectionism -- Instituting Fiscal Reforms -- Targeting Human Development -- Capital Flight -- Assistance with Institutional Change -- Constitutions -- Critical National Institutions -- The Press -- Civil Service -- Electoral Systems -- Greater Utilization of African Talent.

Mary Kingsley (1862–1900) is one of the best known Victorian women travellers, whose solo adventures in West Africa made her a celebrity in England. This, her second book, published in 1899, was an instant best-seller. She travelled extensively, engaging in trade both to fund her trip and to get to know the African people, rather than merely observing as an outsider. Some of her views were considered controversial - she opposed the attempts by missionaries to impose European culture on native people, and defended polygamy and even slavery. She opposed direct colonial rule, and wanted Africans to have more self-determination. Her observations and interests are wide-ranging, and she showed an acute and sympathetic understanding of West African culture and society. For more information on this author, see http://orlando.cambridge.org/public/svPeople?person_id=kingma

Letter, Board of Directors of the National Association of Colored Women, Jefferson City, MO to Emma K. Tourgée, 1905-11-10, expressing sympathy upon learning of the death of her husband, Albion Winegar Tourgée.

Julie A. Gallagher documents six decades of politically active black women in New York City who waged struggles for justice, rights, and equality not through grassroots activism but through formal politics. In tracing the paths of black women activists from women's clubs and civic organizations to national politics--including appointments to presidential commissions, congressional offices, and even a presidential candidacy--Gallagher also articulates the vision of politics the women developed and its influence on the Democratic party and its policies. Deftly examining how race, gender, and the structure of the state itself shape outcomes, she exposes the layers of power and discrimination at work in all sectors of U.S. society.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "All us women have a story within us -- 1 Mildred Life Narrative: "Society is coming to prison -- Reading Narrative: "I have discovered a love for the law -- 2 Sissy Life Narrative: "There's a time to be silent, and there's a time not to -- Reading Narrative: "If you can't relate to it, then read about it -- 3 Olivia Life Narrative: "It was a bad road that I was on -- Reading Narrative: "If I'm going through a struggle, I know that's the book to go find -- 4 Denise Life Narrative: "I can't even imagine my day without a mall -- Reading Narrative: "Who is this writing books that knows the things I know?! -- 5 Bobbie Life Narrative: "I've been overcoming all my life -- Reading Narrative: "Everybody don't end up with a prince -- 6 Melissa Life Narrative: "They're trying to brainwash me and rebuild me -- Reading Narrative: "From her life story to mine is not that much difference -- 7 Valhalla Life Narrative: "I've been like a ball that someone threw and I've been bouncing around e -- Reading Narrative: "The books I've read are like my friends -- 8 Jacqueline Life Narrative: "I refuse to be another statistic -- Reading Narrative: "I wanted his strength to jump out of the pages into my life! -- 9 Audrey Life Narrative: "That's a chapter that's closed -- Reading Narrative: "What fueled this fire for the fire to come all the way over to here? -- 10 Deven Life Narrative: "Society, it's a boys' club still -- Reading Narrative: "I need to know what's gonna happen next! -- 11 Solo Life Narrative: "That's a soul that you're stepping on -- Reading Narrative: "Freedom for me was an evolution, not a revolution -- Afterword: "True Stories about Prison -- Appendix: Study-Related Materials -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Telling the Stones -- Part One: Neighborhood Dramas -- 2 Marriage: Nell Butler and Charles -- 3 Bastardy: Polly Lane and Jim -- 4 Adultery: Dorothea Bourne and Edmond -- 5 Color: Slavery, Freedom, and Ancestry -- Part Two: Escalating Violence -- 6 Wartime: New Voices and New Dangers -- 7 Politics: Racial Hierarchy and Illicit Sex -- 8 Murder: Black Men, White Women, and Lynching -- Epilogue -- Searching for Stories: A Note on Sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

Spanning a period of four tumultuous decades from the mid-1930s through the mid-1970s, this study reassesses the ways in which Chicagoans negotiated the extraordinary challenges of rape, as either victims or accused perpetrators. Drawing on extensive trial testimony, government reports, and media coverage, Dawn Rae Flood examines how men and women, particularly African Americans, understood and challenged rape myths and claimed their protection as citizens. Flood shows how defense strategies challenged assumptions about black criminality while continuing to deploy racist and sexist stereotypes. Uniquely combining legal studies, medical history, and personal accounts, Flood pays special attention to how medical evidence was considered in rape cases and how victim-patients were treated. She analyzes medical testimony in modern rape trials, tracing the evolution of contemporary "rape kit" procedures as shaped by legal requirements, feminist reform efforts and women's experiences.

466 p., illustrated, 30 cm. ; Emilia Serrano, the Baroness of Wilson (1834?-1922) was a Spanish writer who produced historical and sociological works, as well as novels, literary translations, and guides to conduct for young women. The book this excerpt was taken from is considered her most ambitious work. In it she displays an encyclopedic range of interests, including history, ethnology, climatology, and botany, and it clearly reflects her three overriding passions: literature, traveling, and a fascination with the Americas. In this Introduction, she provides autobiographical information about her personal life, how she became fascinated with the Americas, and her controversial decision to travel to the Americas alone. ; This document is an English translation of the Introduction from "América y sus mujeres." Translated by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson. The language of the original document is Spanish.

466 p., illustrated, 30 cm. ; Serrano de Wilson (1834?-1922) was a Spanish writer who produced historical and sociological works, as well as novels, literary translations, and guides to conduct for young women. In this, her most ambitious work, Serrano de Wilson displays an encyclopedic range of interests, including history, ethnology, climatology, and botany, and it clearly reflects her three overriding passions: literature, traveling, and a fascination with the Americas. The product of firsthand research conducted during two voyages, over the course of which she traveled, unaccompanied for the most part, to every country in Latin America, including extended periods of time in Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, Cuba, and Mexico. The length of these voyages kept her away from her native Spain for close to 15 years. Serrano de Wilson employs a geographical approach to handling the vast amount of material at her disposal, describing the landscapes, detailing the flora and fauna unique to each place, the indigenous peoples, the European settlers, as well as current politics and literature. She visits haciendas in Brazil and Argentina, hikes the Andes in Ecuador and Chile, collects antiquities in Mexico and beside the shores of Lake Titicaca in Peru, and enjoys the company of fellow writers in literary salons throughout the continent. An interesting feature of her methodology is her reliance on a network of female friends with shared intellectual habits and interests, including Juana Gorriti, Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, and Soledad Acosta de Samper, all of whom were invaluable in providing Serrano de Wilson invitations to historical sites and archives which her position as a single woman would have normally barred her access to. She frankly acknowledges the dependency of intelligent women on such networks of 'sisterhood' and endorses them as a model for enterprising women. While the majority of the work deals with Latin America, early chapters discuss stereotypes, both racial and gender, popular in European intellectual circles, while a later chapter describes her visit to the United States, specifically New York City and Washington, D.C. ; This document is an English translation of the "América y sus mujeres." Translated by Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson. The language of the original document is Spanish.

Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. North of Slavery: Brockport -- 2. "Completely Surrounded by Screens": A Raced Identity -- 3. Creating Community in the Midwest: Chicago -- 4. Crossing the Border of Race: The Unitarians, the World's Fair, and the Chicago Woman's Club -- 5. A Distinctive Generation: "The Colored Woman's Era -- 6. The New Century: North and South Meet -- 7. A New Era: Duty, Responsibility, and Tension -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Letter, Albion Winegar Tourgée to editors of the Boston Courant, undated (circa 1891), concerning the representation of women in the National Citizen's Rights Association.

Letter, Nettie S. Chapin to Albion W. Tourgée, 1892-05-09, Junior Vice President of the National Headquarters of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, Marshalltown, IA, informing Tourgée that women have and will continue to raise and spend money to ""ameliorate the condition of the heathen," particularly in the South.

Writen in response to an eight-page pamphlet, supposedly written by the Democratic Party campaign managers and circulated among African-American voters, titled "What Governor Atkinson Has Done for the Colored People of Georgia." The present broadside goes on to accuse the governor of granting pardons to African-American murderers and rapists in order to win the African-American vote. Several examples of white women being raped and their attackers being pardoned. ; GSU has two copies: one copy is split into two sheets at center fold; one copy is entire sheet. Both copies in envelope in Printed Materials--Documents--005. Scanned in greyscale.

This long overdue biography elevates Jane Matilda Bolin to her rightful place in American history as an activist, integrationist, jurist, and outspoken public figure in the political and professional milieu before the modern Civil Rights movement. When Bolin was appointed to NYC's domestic relations court in 1939 for the first of four ten-year terms, she became the nation's first African American woman judge. Drawing on archival materials and a meeting with Bolin, Jacqueline A. McLeod reveals how Bolin parlayed her judicial position to impact reforms of the legal and social service system in New York. Beginning with Bolin's childhood and educational experiences at Wellesley and Yale, Daughter of the Empire State chronicles Bolin's quick rise through the ranks of a profession that routinely excluded both women and African Americans. McLeod links Bolin's activist leanings and integrationist zeal to her involvement in the NAACP and details her work as a critic and reformer.