In this important study, poet Melba Joyce Boyd analyzes Harper not simply as a feminist and an activist, but as a writer.

In this comparative and hybrid study, Reginald A. Wilburn offers the first scholarly work to theorize African American authors’ rebellious appropriations of M

Struggle for Equal Adulthood: Gender, Race, Age, and the Fight for Citizenship in Antebellum America

By focusing on male leaders of the abolitionist movement, historians have often overlooked the great grassroots army of women who also fought to eliminate slave

Women have had a complex experience in African American culture. The first work of its kind, this encyclopedia approaches African American literature from a Wom