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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on Citations -- I. Toward a Black Feminist Criticism -- Toward a Black Feminist Criticism -- The Souls of Black Women -- Sexual Politics and the Fiction of Zora Neale Hurston -- Naming the Unnameable: The Poetry of Pat Parker -- The Truth That Never Hurts: Black Lesbians in Fiction in the 1980s -- We Must Always Bury Our Dead Twice: A Tribute to James Baldwin -- African American Lesbian and Gay History: An Exploration -- II. Between a Rock and a Hard Place -- Racism and Women's Studies -- The Tip of the Iceberg -- The Rodney King Verdict -- Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Reflections on the Hill-Thomas Hearings -- Homophobia: Why Bring It Up? -- The NEA Is the Least of It -- Blacks and Gays: Healing the Great Divide -- Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Relationships between Black and Jewish Women -- III. Working for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time -- Chicago Firsthand: A Distortion of Reality -- Working for Liberation and Having a Damn Good Time -- Doing It from Scratch: The Challenge of Black Lesbian Organizing -- Where's the Revolution? -- Where's the Revolution? Part II -- IV. A Rose -- A Rose -- Organizations to Contact -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Author.

"On August 27, 1927, five women gathered at a house on Edmonton's Southside to sign a letter that would change the course of Canadian history. Those women were Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Henrietta Muir Edwards, who would become known as the Famous Five. The meeting of the women had been prompted by Emily Murphy, an Alberta magistrate, whose right to render judgements had been challenged by a lawyer who maintained that only men could be appointed as judges because only men were considered "persons" under the British North America Act. The battle for justice that began that Saturday afternoon on took several years and many miles, finally making its way to the Privy Council in London. Finally, in 1929, a landmark ruling found that women were indeed "persons" in the eyes of the law. But who were these women and how did they come together at such a pivotal moment in Canadian history? The Famous Five is a comprehensive look at the remarkable lives, prolific careers, sometimes disturbing contradictions, and extraordinary achievements of these five women who fought for equality at a time when women were barely recognized as relevant."

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE -- The Legendary Chase -- Mystery Man -- PART TWO -- A New Approach to Solving an Old Mystery -- The Exhumation Begins -- The Mad Trapper Resurfaces -- PART THREE -- Forensics in the Field -- Building a Profile -- Looking for a Match -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Select Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Copyright

When she began work on this collection, Barbara Ellen Smith was asked, "Why work on a book about women in the South? Nobody writes books about women in the Midwest." In an era of intensified globalization, when populations, cultures, and capital move across the boundaries of nation-states in multiple forms and directions, the concept of a subnational region seems parochial and out of date. "But," Smith argues, "it is precisely because of the historical construction of the secessionist South as an embattled region when all manners of social problems tend to be blamed on