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Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray de Rosalind Rosenberg

Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray

Autor Rosalind Rosenberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 mar 2020

Adresăm această lucrare studenților la drept constituțional, cercetătorilor în istoria mișcărilor sociale și practicienilor din domeniul drepturilor omului, oferindu-le o perspectivă esențială asupra unei figuri care a prefigurat intersecționalitatea modernă. Jane Crow nu este doar o biografie, ci o analiză riguroasă a modului în care Pauli Murray a transformat trauma personală a discriminării în instrumente juridice ce au redefinit democrația americană.

Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Rosalind Rosenberg reușește să scoată la lumină influența „invizibilă” a lui Murray asupra unor figuri monumentale precum Thurgood Marshall sau Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Subliniem faptul că, deși Murray a absolvit prima la Howard Law School, a fost respinsă de Harvard din cauza sexului său, un moment de cotitură care a dus la articularea conceptului de „Jane Crow”. Acest termen a devenit piatra de temelie pentru argumentarea faptului că Amendamentul al Paisprezecelea protejează nu doar minoritățile rasiale, ci și femeile.

Putem afirma că stilul autoarei este unul analitic și empatic, reușind să integreze lupta interioară a lui Murray cu identitatea sa de gen — pe care astăzi am numi-o transgender — într-un context istoric care nu îi oferea niciun sprijin formal. Alternativă la Pauli Murray de Terry Catasús Jennings pentru cursurile de istorie politică, Jane Crow are avantajul unei documentări academice exhaustive de peste 500 de pagini, oferind o profunzime pe care o biografie în versuri nu o poate atinge. Lucrarea se înscrie perfect în opera lui Rosalind Rosenberg, continuând temele explorate în Beyond Separate Spheres despre transformarea identității feminine și provocările egalității în SUA.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780190053819
ISBN-10: 019005381X
Pagini: 514
Ilustrații: 31 illus.
Dimensiuni: 231 x 155 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.79 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor care doresc să înțeleagă originile intelectuale ale feminismului intersecțional. Veți câștiga o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care o singură persoană, confruntată cu marginalizarea dublă, a reușit să influențeze deciziile Curții Supreme și să devină pionier în drept, activism și teologie. Este o lectură fundamentală pentru a înțelege legătura indisolubilă dintre drepturile civile și cele ale femeilor.

Despre autor

Rosalind Rosenberg este profesor emerit de istorie la Barnard College, Universitatea Columbia, și o voce autoritară în istoria femeilor din Statele Unite. Cariera sa s-a concentrat pe analizarea modului în care genul și politicile sociale interacționează, temă centrală și în lucrările sale anterioare, precum Divided Lives sau Changing the Subject. Prin cercetările sale la Barnard, Rosenberg a documentat transformările intelectuale care au dus la feminismul modern, primind recunoaștere pentru rigoarea cu care explorează viețile femeilor care au provocat status quo-ul academic și juridic american.

Descriere

Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law. In the 1950s, her legal scholarship helped Thurgood Marshall challenge segregation head-on in the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. When appointed by Eleanor Roosevelt to the President's Commission on the Status of Women in 1962, she advanced the idea of Jane Crow, arguing that the same reasons used to condemn race discrimination could be used to battle gender discrimination. In 1965, she became the first African American to earn a JSD from Yale Law School and the following year persuaded Betty Friedan to found an NAACP for women, which became NOW. In the early 1970s, Murray provided Ruth Bader Ginsburg with the argument Ginsburg used to persuade the Supreme Court that the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution protects not only blacks but also women - and potentially other minority groups - from discrimination. By that time, Murray was a tenured history professor at Brandeis, a position she left to become the first black woman ordained a priest by the Episcopal Church in 1976.Murray accomplished all this while struggling with issues of identity. She believed from childhood she was male and tried unsuccessfully to persuade doctors to give her testosterone. While she would today be identified as transgender, during her lifetime no social movement existed to support this identity. She ultimately used her private feelings of being "in-between" to publicly contend that identities are not fixed, an idea that has powered campaigns for equal rights in the United States for the past half-century.

Recenzii

Rosenberg brilliantly situates Murray at the forefront of post-WW II civil and women's rights movements....This major contribution to African American history and queer studies sheds light on Murray's lifelong struggles with gender identity. The feminist scholar and Episcopal priest identified as a man, established relationships with women, donned men's clothes, and during the 1930s unsuccessfully underwent hormone therapy in order to transition from female to male. A stellar and fascinating monograph that celebrates Murray's lesser-known accomplishments. Essential.
Rosenberg offers a compelling look at a complicated woman.
A cradle-to-grave account about one of the most interesting, accomplished, and controversial figures in 20th-century America who is far too little known....Assiduous research and clear prose give [Pauli] Murray her due.
Placing Murray in historical context with practiced ease, Rosenberg weaves these many threads together into an authoritative narrative that will introduce Murray to many future generations.
Rosenberg tells Murray's story as she lived it but also casts a well-informed, modern eye on the intersections and omissions within that life. Her striking interpretive work clearly shows what Murray herself suspected: that everything Murray did was 'part of history...an instrument for achieving things.'
A fascinating look at the incredible life of Pauli Murray, a mixed-race, transgender scholar, lawyer, activist, priest, and trailblazer who played a pivotal role in the civil rights and women's movements of the 20th century.
A splendid definitive biography....This thorough investigation into Murray's life is fascinating, as the author traces the intersection among gender, race, and politics.
Historical figures aren't human flotsam, swirling into public awareness at random intervals. Instead, they are almost always borne back to us on the current of our own times. In Murray's case, it's not simply that her public struggles on behalf of women, minorities, and the working class suddenly seem more relevant than ever. It's that her private struggles
A compelling read from start to finish....Like all the best biographies, this is more than just the story of a single figure. It is the story of America, told through the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality that have come to define it....Rosenberg's Jane Crow makes not only an important contribution to the fields of Black, feminist, and trans history, but also offers us the timely reminder that, as Murray herself once wrote, 'one person and a typewriter make a movement.'
A fresh perspective on this crucial slice of history.
Rosenberg's research is thorough, and her lively style keeps readers engaged....[A]n edifying and enjoyable read.
Beautifully crafted...[Jane Crow] underscore[s] the pleasures of biography as history.
Rosenberg has done the world an immense favor by presenting, in all its triumph and pathos, the life (or perhaps 'lives' is more accurate) of this brilliant and defiant African-American.
Meticulously researched, expansive in its coverage of Murray's many achievements, engagingly written overall, Rosenberg has given us the means to a greater appreciation of this most remarkable American, and provides a foundation for even further conversation about her significance and legacy.
Rosenberg has delivered an insightful, sensitive, and long-overdue biography that gives Murray her rightful place among the twentieth century's most important civil rights activitists.
Rosalind Rosenberg's Jane Crow: The Life of Pauli Murray is a highly readable account of Murray's intense and life-long battle to confront social issues bound up in the entangled threads of race, sexuality, gender, and class... Her narrative has an immediacy that seamlessly connects Murray's personal and public lives.
Jane Crow does justice to the powerful mind and personal pain of Pauli Murray and to the momentous events she had a hand in bringing to pass. This is a book that asks us to meet it with an energy and compassion that does honor to its subject and will change the way we understand our world.

Notă biografică

Rosalind Rosenberg is Professor of History Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Century, Changing the Subject: How the Women of Columbia Shaped the Way We Think About Sex and Politics, and Beyond Separate Spheres: Intellectual Roots of Modern Feminism.