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Title Statement | Young and restless: the girls who sparked America's revolutions / Mattie Kahn. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Girls who sparked America's revolutions |
Author | Kahn, Mattie |
Publication | New York: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House,[2023]©2023 |
Extent of Item | xxii, 346 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593299067 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06998916 |
Contents | Introduction --Material girls: dreamers and schemers at the dawn of a labor movement --The mouth on that girl: Anna Elizabeth Dickinson and a nation at war --See me: a girl's battle for women's suffrage --Bad girls: troublemakers and the Civil Rights Movement --Lost leaders : The movement's invisible girls --Cliques: female friendship and freedom --Talking bodies: sex and single girls in second-wave feminism --Good girls: crusaders in miniskirts and the right to an education --Look at me now: tinker, tailor, and the aesthetics of a movement --In her feelings: girlhood at the end of the world --Stream of consciousness: how girls use their voices --Conclusion. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-329) and index. |
Summary | "Nine months before Rosa Parks kicked off the bus boycotts, Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. She was fifteen. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage. Leading them up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan was not one of the mothers of the movement, but a teenage Chinese immigrant named Mabel Ping-Hua Lee. Half a century before the better-known movements for workers' rights began, over 1,500 girls-some as young as ten-walked out of factories in Lowell, Massachusetts, demanding safer working conditions and higher wages in one of the nation's first-ever labor strikes. Young women have been disenfranchised and discounted, but the true retelling of major social movements in America reveals their might: they have ignited almost every single one. Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls. From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women's liberation movement, through Black Lives Matter and school strikes for climate, Mattie Kahn uncovers how girls have leveraged their unique strengths, from fandom to intimate friendships, to organize and lay serious political groundwork for movements that often sidelined them. Their stories illuminate how much we owe to girls throughout the generations, what skills young women use to mobilize and find their voices, and, crucially, what we can all stand to learn from them."-- |
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By Topic | Social movements--History--United States |
Teenage girls--Political activity--History--United States | |
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