Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies
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Consistent Democracy | What did it mean that in the world's first mass democracy only a minority ruled and that women—free and enslaved, white and Black, single and married—formed the largest group of people barred from full self-government in nineteenth-century America? |
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Brooding over Bloody Revenge | From the colonial through the antebellum era, enslaved women in the US used lethal force as the ultimate form of resistance. By amplifying their voices and experiences, Brooding Over Bloody Revenge (Cambridge University Press, 2023) strongly challenges assumptions that enslaved women only participated in covert, non-violent forms of resistance, when in fact they consistently seized justice for themselves and organized toward revolt. Nikki M. Taylor reveals how women killed for deeply personal instances of injustice committed by their owners. |
| The Devotion of These Women: Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network | ||
| The Healer's Calling: Women and Medicine in Early New England | ||
| Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America | ||
| Stray Wives: Marital Conflict in Early National New England | ||
| Performing Menken: Adah Isaacs Menken and the Birth of American Celebrity | ||
| Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation | ||
| Home Rule: Households, Manhood, and National Expansion on the Eighteenth-Century Kentucky Frontier | ||
| Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest |