| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

You have not been recognized as a subscriber to JAH online. About 192 words from this article are provided below; about 351 words remain.

If you are a individual member of the Organization of American Historians, you may:: • login here if you have already registered for online access.; • Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.
• Set up your online account for the first time.
If you are not a member of the Organization of American Historians, you can:: • Join the OAH and receive many member benefits including print and electronic issues of the Journal of American History.
• Purchase a research pass to gain two-hour access to the entire History Cooperative web site. You will have full access to current issues of the Journal of American History (86.1-present). Note: the Research Pass does not provide access to JSTOR's holdings of the Journal of American History.
Instititutions can:: • Subscribe to this journal and receive print and electronic issues.
• Activate your existing subscription so that we recognize your IP number ranges.

| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Southern Discomfort: Women's Activism in Tampa, Florida, 1880s-1920s. By Nancy A. Hewitt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001. xvi, 345 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-252-02682-9.)

In this long-awaited volume, Nancy A. Hewitt knits more than a decade of research into an astute comparative study of women's social activism in Tampa's black, Anglo, and Latin communities. Analytically, she zeroes in on conceptions of 'us' and 'them' reflected in the organizations and spontaneous movements that mobilized Tampa women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. That focus on identity lends coherence to an exceptionally broad book. The venues examined range from mutual aid societies, church sisterhoods, and civic improvement campaigns to labor unions, civil rights groups, strikes, and demonstrations. Significant differences among black, Anglo, and Latin activists--and diversity within each group--necessitate multiple narratives, which bring to life key individuals in addition to organizations and movements. Hewitt further widens the focus by situating all of this in the social and political history of Tampa, the New South, and the Caribbean basin. 1

Much of the analysis revolves around a question that confronted Hewitt's subjects as they devised strategies for social change: 2

. . .

There are about 351 more words in this article. Please log in (or, if you are not yet an authorized user, please go to the User Setup page) to gain full access rights. Or if you're already logged in register your subscription.