"The Liberty Girl" by Rena I. Halsey is a novel set during a pivotal period in American history, World War I. The story revolves around the life of the protagonist, Elaine Derwent, a spirited and independent young woman living in New York City. Elaine's life takes a significant turn when she becomes involved in the war effort. Inspired by a strong sense of patriotism, she dedicates herself to supporting the soldiers overseas. She takes on various roles and responsibilities, including volunteering for charitable organizations, participating in fundraising efforts, and advocating for women's rights, especially their right to vote. As Elaine becomes more deeply immersed in her work and her commitment to the war cause, she faces a series of challenges and encounters a cast of diverse characters. Throughout the novel, readers witness Elaine's personal growth and her transformation into a symbol of the Liberty Girl—a figure representing the courage and determination of women during wartime. "The Liberty Girl" explores themes such as patriotism, social change, and women's empowerment. It highlights the contributions of women to the war effort and their evolving roles in society. Rena I. Halsey's novel captures the spirit of the era and the resilience of individuals who worked tirelessly to support their country during a time of great turmoil. This novel serves as a historical reminder of the significant role women played during World War I and their determination to secure their rights and contribute to the greater good. "The Liberty Girl" is a compelling read that offers insight into a transformative period in American history and the women who helped shape it.

Explores the lives of colonial women, particularly during the Revolutionary War years, arguing that eighteenth-century Americans had very clear notions of appropriate behavior for females and the functions they were expected to perform, and that most women suffered from low self-esteem, believing themselves inferior to men.

In Black Girl Autopoetics Ashleigh Greene Wade explores how Black girls create representations of themselves in digital culture with the speed and flexibility enabled by smartphones. She analyzes the double bind Black girls face when creating content online: on one hand, their online activity makes them hypervisible, putting them at risk for cyberbullying, harassment, and other forms of violence; on the other hand, Black girls are rarely given credit for their digital inventiveness, rendering them invisible. Wade maps Black girls’ everyday digital practices, showing what their digital content reveals about their everyday experiences and how their digital production contributes to a broader archive of Black life. She coins the term Black girl autopoetics to describe how Black girls’ self-making creatively reinvents cultural products, spaces, and discourse in digital space. Using ethnographic research into the digital cultural production of adolescent Black girls throughout the United States, Wade draws a complex picture of how Black girls navigate contemporary reality, urging us to listen to Black girls’ experience and learn from their techniques of survival.

This book examines the feminism of an early twentieth-century movement that involved thousands of women--the struggle for the vote in England. It is an attempt to discover some of the main ideas developed within the major suffragist organizations.

The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave trade and the enactment of Black codes placed the city's Black women within the rigid confines of a social hierarchy ordered by race and gender. At the Threshold of Liberty reveals how these women--enslaved, fugitive, and free--imagined new identities and lives beyond the oppressive restrictions intended to prevent them from ever experiencing liberty, self-respect, and power. Consulting newspapers, government documents, letters, abolitionist records, legislation, and memoirs, Tamika Y. Nunley traces how Black women navigated social and legal proscriptions to develop their own ideas about liberty as they escaped from slavery, initiated freedom suits, created entrepreneurial economies, pursued education, and participated in political work. In telling these stories, Nunley places Black women at the vanguard of the history of Washington, D.C., and the momentous transformations of nineteenth-century America.