ABSTRACT
Unequal Sisters has become a beloved and classic reader, providing an unparalleled resource for understanding women’s history in the United States today.
First published in 1990, the book revolutionized the field with its broad multicultural approach, emphasizing feminist perspectives on race, ethnicity, region, and sexuality, and covering the colonial period to the present day. Now in its fifth edition, the book presents an even wider variety of women’s experiences. This new edition explores the connections between the past and the present and highlights the analysis of queerness, transgender identity, disability, the rise of the carceral state, and the bureaucratization and militarization of migration. There is also more coverage of Indigenous and Pacific Islander women. The book is structured around thematic clusters: conceptual/methodological approaches to women’s history; bodies, sexuality, and kinship; and agency and activism.
This classic work has incorporated the feedback of educators in the field to make it the most user-friendly version to date and will be of interest to students and scholars of women’s history, gender and sexuality studies, and the history of race and ethnicity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1II|8 pages
chapter |6 pages
When and Where We Entered Unequal Sisters
part III|130 pages
Conceptualizing Women of Color History
chapter 4|17 pages
Unpacking Our Mothers' Libraries
chapter 9|13 pages
Transgender
part IV|258 pages
The Politics of the Body and Kinship
chapter 10|18 pages
“[A]n Unpleasant Transaction on this Frontier”
chapter 12|13 pages
“[S]he could … spare one ample breast for the profit of her owner”
chapter 14|28 pages
The Pleasures of Resistance
chapter 16|22 pages
“Crimes which startle and horrify”
chapter 20|24 pages
Sex, Lies, and Agriculture
chapter 21|14 pages
“Up to My Elbows in Rice!”
chapter 22|17 pages
Intergenerational Ties
chapter 23|14 pages
A Dreadful Mosaic
part V|189 pages
Women of Color as Global Activists