Add to ORKGAbolitionist Lucy Stanton, the first female graduate of Oberlin College and the first black woman in the United States to finish four years of college, strongly believed in the power of moral reform. In her self-presentation, personal choices, and abolitionist rhetoric, Stanton embodied a politics of respectability. Using the works of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham and Erica L. Ball, I articulate my interpretation of the politics of respectability for middle-class free black women before the Civil War, with Stanton’s life as a case study. I assert that Stanton primarily chose to embody ideals of respectability due to her belief in the transformative abolitionist power of living out her values. Rather than being a performance, Stanton’s respecta...
Women played a vital role in the American and British antislavery movements of the nineteenth centur...
In 1960 Nashville, change came from an unexpected place. Black college women renounced the protectiv...
In many slave narratives and fictional representations of slavery, white mistresses are often misrep...
This paper explores the concept of respectability and how it is learned and embodied in an all girls...
For African-American women, self-representation is vital because socially constructed images have th...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement...
Nineteenth century notions of femininity and etiquette were governed by strict societal standards. “...
“(Re)defining Radicalism: The Rise of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, 1831-1895,”...
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the req...
In her introduction to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Angela Davis notes that the abol...
In 1960 Nashville, change came from an unexpected place. Black college women renounced the protectiv...
Mary Easton Sibley, the founder of Lindenwood University, was an ambitious woman. A supporter of the...
Image is an important component in people’s identity and socio-cultural experiences. Aesthetics are ...
In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested...
Aida Overton Walker, a premier vaudeville entertainer, engaged in a calculated, career-long process ...
Women played a vital role in the American and British antislavery movements of the nineteenth centur...
In 1960 Nashville, change came from an unexpected place. Black college women renounced the protectiv...
In many slave narratives and fictional representations of slavery, white mistresses are often misrep...
This paper explores the concept of respectability and how it is learned and embodied in an all girls...
For African-American women, self-representation is vital because socially constructed images have th...
In the mid-nineteenth century, Elizabeth Cady Stanton used narratives of women and their involvement...
Nineteenth century notions of femininity and etiquette were governed by strict societal standards. “...
“(Re)defining Radicalism: The Rise of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability, 1831-1895,”...
Submitted to the Department of History of the University of Kansas in partial fulfillment of the req...
In her introduction to Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Angela Davis notes that the abol...
In 1960 Nashville, change came from an unexpected place. Black college women renounced the protectiv...
Mary Easton Sibley, the founder of Lindenwood University, was an ambitious woman. A supporter of the...
Image is an important component in people’s identity and socio-cultural experiences. Aesthetics are ...
In Emancipation's Daughters, Riché Richardson examines iconic black women leaders who have contested...
Aida Overton Walker, a premier vaudeville entertainer, engaged in a calculated, career-long process ...
Women played a vital role in the American and British antislavery movements of the nineteenth centur...
In 1960 Nashville, change came from an unexpected place. Black college women renounced the protectiv...
In many slave narratives and fictional representations of slavery, white mistresses are often misrep...