Women's Radical Reconstruction The Freedmen's Aid Movement
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Erscheinungsdatum
08.01.2007
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University Of Pennsylvania PressSeitenzahl
208
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22,6/15/1,8 cm
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318 g
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Englisch
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978-0-8122-1970-8
Women's Radical Reconstruction
The Freedmen's Aid Movement
Carol Faulkner
"Important for its contribution to redefining women's activism."--Choice
"A pioneering account of the work for and by freedmen."--Journal of American History
"Faulkner's fascinating and important book focuses on the role of Northern black and white women in the freedmen's aid movement from roughly 1861 to 1877. She brilliantly captures a moment in U.S. history when these working relationships were possible."--Journal of Southern History
"Women's Radical Reconstruction will appeal to historians concerned with gender issues, abolition and slavery, philanthropy, and education. Faulkner draws upon rich primary sources from archives, historical societies, and rare book and manuscript collections to bolster her argument."--History of Education Quarterly
"The author sheds light on the conflicted character of the freedmen's aid movement, offering vivid glimpses of the struggles that shaped the period more broadly. . . . She makes an important case for exploring further the role gender played in shaping a radical moment in the history of the United States."--Washington Times
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates fully the complex and dynamic part played by Northern women in the design, implementation, and administration of Reconstruction policy. This absorbing account illustrates how these activists approached women's rights, the treatment of freed slaves, and the federal government's role in reorganizing Southern life.
Like Radical Republicans, black and white women studied here advocated land reform, political and civil rights, and an activist federal government. They worked closely with the military, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Northern aid societies to provide food, clothes, housing, education, and employment to former slaves. These abolitionist-feminists embraced the Freedmen's Bureau, seeing it as both a shield for freedpeople and a vehicle for women's rights. But Faulkner rebuts historians who depict a community united by faith in free labor ideology, describing a movement torn by internal tensions.
The author explores how gender conventions undermined women's efforts, as military personnel and many male reformers saw female reformers as encroaching on their territory, threatening their vision of a wage labor economy, and impeding the economic independence of former slaves. She notes the opportunities afforded to some middle-class black women, while also acknowledging the difficult ground they occupied between freed slaves and whites. Through compelling individual examples, she traces how female reformers found their commitment to gender solidarity across racial lines tested in the face of disagreements regarding the benefits of charity and the merits of paid employment.
Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor of History at SUNY, Geneseo.
2003 | 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus.
ISBN 978-0-8122-3744-3 | Cloth | $59.95s | £39.00
ISBN 978-0-8122-1970-8 | Paper | $24.95s | £16.50
ISBN 978-0-8122-0391-2 | Ebook | $24.95s | £16.50
World Rights | American History, Women's/Gender Studies
The Freedmen's Aid Movement
Carol Faulkner
"Important for its contribution to redefining women's activism."--Choice
"A pioneering account of the work for and by freedmen."--Journal of American History
"Faulkner's fascinating and important book focuses on the role of Northern black and white women in the freedmen's aid movement from roughly 1861 to 1877. She brilliantly captures a moment in U.S. history when these working relationships were possible."--Journal of Southern History
"Women's Radical Reconstruction will appeal to historians concerned with gender issues, abolition and slavery, philanthropy, and education. Faulkner draws upon rich primary sources from archives, historical societies, and rare book and manuscript collections to bolster her argument."--History of Education Quarterly
"The author sheds light on the conflicted character of the freedmen's aid movement, offering vivid glimpses of the struggles that shaped the period more broadly. . . . She makes an important case for exploring further the role gender played in shaping a radical moment in the history of the United States."--Washington Times
In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates fully the complex and dynamic part played by Northern women in the design, implementation, and administration of Reconstruction policy. This absorbing account illustrates how these activists approached women's rights, the treatment of freed slaves, and the federal government's role in reorganizing Southern life.
Like Radical Republicans, black and white women studied here advocated land reform, political and civil rights, and an activist federal government. They worked closely with the military, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Northern aid societies to provide food, clothes, housing, education, and employment to former slaves. These abolitionist-feminists embraced the Freedmen's Bureau, seeing it as both a shield for freedpeople and a vehicle for women's rights. But Faulkner rebuts historians who depict a community united by faith in free labor ideology, describing a movement torn by internal tensions.
The author explores how gender conventions undermined women's efforts, as military personnel and many male reformers saw female reformers as encroaching on their territory, threatening their vision of a wage labor economy, and impeding the economic independence of former slaves. She notes the opportunities afforded to some middle-class black women, while also acknowledging the difficult ground they occupied between freed slaves and whites. Through compelling individual examples, she traces how female reformers found their commitment to gender solidarity across racial lines tested in the face of disagreements regarding the benefits of charity and the merits of paid employment.
Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor of History at SUNY, Geneseo.
2003 | 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus.
ISBN 978-0-8122-3744-3 | Cloth | $59.95s | £39.00
ISBN 978-0-8122-1970-8 | Paper | $24.95s | £16.50
ISBN 978-0-8122-0391-2 | Ebook | $24.95s | £16.50
World Rights | American History, Women's/Gender Studies
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