This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in US feminism's formation as a collective
identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, more than five …

Within a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839,
slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex …

Lange's examination of the fights that led to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in
1920 reveals the power of images to change history. For as long as women have battled for …

It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography's
history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British …

" Dear Brother," Jane Manning James wrote to Joseph F. Smith in 1903," I take this
opportunity of writing to ask you if I can get my endowments and also finish the work I have …

The image of the “scourged back” remains one of the most visually arresting depictions of
slavery. Based on a photograph taken in Baton Rouge in April 1863 and later published in …

When feminists in the antebellum United States organized to end slavery and demand their
rights, they immediately faced critics who ridiculed them as ugly old maids, wrinkled old …

Feminizm, 19. yüzyılda, kadınların, erkeklerle eşit olması gerektiğini savunanlarca
oluşturuldu. Ancak, feminizm zaman içinde önemli dönüşümler yaşayarak farklı ülküleri …

This essay is the first study of the formerly enslaved woman Ellen Craft's nineteenth-century
photograph album and its contents, and the first study linking Craft's album to one owned by …

Collective Memory Human memory is fragile. It does not work like computer memory. It is
partial, contextual and easily forgotten. It is prone to narrativization. We do not record every …