Nine Women: Portraits from the American Radical Tradition

by Judith Nies

Book Overview

In an expanded edition of her history of American women activists, Judith Nies has added biographical essays on feminist Bella Abzug and civil rights visionary Fannie Lou Hamer and a new chapter on women environmental activists. Included are portraits of Sarah Moore Grimk?, who rejected her life as a Southern aristocrat and slaveholder to promote women's rights and the abolition of slavery; Harriet Tubman, an escaped slave who led more than three...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520229657
• ISBN13: 9780520229655
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.2"