Editors' Note: Crises, Radicalism, Backlash, and Transitions

Abstract

Concentrating on African Americans in New York City who were incarcerated for theft, she shows us how white supremacy operated within the carceral system: law enforcement officials often exonerated white female domestic workers accused of stealing, arguing that these women were just trying to keep their families afloat [ ]the state co-opted—and then subverted—elite women's demands as the state became increasingly centered around the person of Saddam Hussein Founder of the Women's Dance Health Program, an intertribal, interracial organization that provided health education and health services to Native American women, Cook worked at the intersection of the Red Power and the natural birthing movement [ ]as O'Donnell compellingly argues, Seaman felt it necessary to set the record about 1970s feminist activism straight—in advance, so to speak—because she already perceived a backlash against feminism by the early 1980s