Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election‐Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895.
This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space and gender in shaping power and access to it. Election‐day ballot boxes became identified as spaces o...
| Publicado en: | Gender & History Vol. 37; no. 3; pp. 875 - 884 |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Artículo |
| Publicado: |
Wiley-Blackwell
Oct2025
|
| Materias: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Ver este registro en EBSCOhost |
| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=190327643&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 190327643 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 09535233 BPJ jtl: Gender & History issn: 09535233 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Oct2025 vid: 37 iid: 3 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 190327643 10.1111/1468-0424.70012 ppf: 875 ppct: 9 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 188KB tig: atl: Armed Women at the Polling Grounds: Black Rural Working Women's Struggle Against Election‐Day Segregation in South Carolina, 1874–1895. aug: au: Downs, Gregory P. affil: University of California, Davis California, , USA su: Elections Polling places African American women Segregation Race Gender North Carolina sug: subj: North Carolina Elections Polling places African American women Segregation Race Gender keyword: disfranchisement emancipation Reconstruction segregation suffrage ab: This article examines testimony about Black rural women's physical, sometimes violent, interventions in Reconstruction era South Carolina elections to illuminate the relationship between race, space and gender in shaping power and access to it. Election‐day ballot boxes became identified as spaces of gendered exclusion after the enfranchisement of Black adult male residents in 1867 and created expectations of gendered segregation nearby. But Black women violated and tested those norms to claim their role in creating a cohesive, sometimes‐coercive political community. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Gender & History is the property of Wiley-Blackwell and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Gender & History holder: Wiley-Blackwell dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
|---|