Early American Women

In the 18th century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urban Caribbean slavery in this colonial town from the perspective of these women whose stories appear only briefly in historical records. Combining fragmentary sources with interdisciplinary methodologies that include black feminist theory and critical studies of history and slavery, Dispossessed Lives demonstrates how the construction of the archive marked enslaved women's bodies, in life and in death.

An unmarried, single African American girl in her early thirties, with a preference for white men is looking to experiment sexually and finds out about a swingers' orgy Halloween party being thrown near where she lives. She takes a chance and RSVPS for her first orgy. She finds herself competing in a nasty party game and partying with white guys and girls with scary, weird and interesting costumes!

The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash argues otherwise. Integrating the approaches of women's historians and political historians, this book explores changes in women's status that occurred from the time of the American Revolution until the election of Andrew Jackson.

Historian Alejandra Dubcovsky tells a story of war, slavery, loss, remembrance, and the women whose resilience and resistance transformed the colonial South. In exploring their lives she rewrites early American history, challenging the established male-centered narrative.

Volume 2: Extraordinary European and American women have taught, preached, and cared for people in global settings for centuries. Most of the Pentecostal missionaries who went abroad after the early C20 Pentecostal revivals were WOMEN as well. This volume, second in a series, examines precedent and concurrent women from many backgrounds: Catholic, American mainline churches, Evangelicals, and revivalist groups. Before the Pentecostal revivals, career missionary women paved the way for serving abroad, connecting with partners at home, and updating missions administrators. These women, with ...