| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830–1900. By Martha S. Jones. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 317 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3152-6. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-5845-5.)

This important study attests to the continuing vitality of the field of African American women's history, which has challenged paradigms in African American and U.S. women's history since the 1980s, deepening and complicating the national narrative. Martha S. Jones's monograph counters the characterization of black institutions as patriarchal by showing them to be sites of contestation over gendered power. She also challenges the view that the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention was the beginning of the women's rights movement by emphasizing the struggle of black women in the 1830s to speak before audiences that included men. She examines Victorian domesticity not in terms of the separate spheres trope but as a means of achieving respectability in the face of popular culture's penchant for parodying, through minstrelsy and cartoons, black women's assertiveness in African American public culture.

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