Anne M. Valk | Britannica

Anne M. Valk

Contributor

BIOGRAPHY

Adjunct Associate Profesor of American Studies, Brown University. Author of Living with Jim Crow (with Leslie Brown) and Radical Sisters: Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.

Primary Contributions (1)

lesbian feminism

Lesbian feminism, a subset of feminism that emerged in the mid-to-late 20th century at the convergence of the women’s movement, the gay rights movement, and the sexual revolution. Lesbian feminists consider same-sex relationships legitimate and use their lesbian identity as a basis for community…

Publications (3)

Living with Jim Crow African American Women and Memories of the Segregated South (October 2011)

By L. Brown, A. Valk

Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.

Radical Sisters Second-Wave Feminism and Black Liberation in Washington, D.C. (June 2010)

By Anne M. Valk

Radical Sisters offers a fresh exploration of the ways that 1960s political movements shaped local, grassroots feminism in Washington, D.C. Rejecting notions of a universal sisterhood, Anne M. Valk argues that activists periodically worked to bridge differences for the sake of alleviating women's plight, even while maintaining distinct political bases. While most historiography on the subject tends to portray the feminist movement as deeply divided over issues of race, Valk presents a more...

Encyclopedia of Gender and Society (2009)

By Jodi O'Brien

2009 RUSA Outstanding Reference
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009

"Given both the interdisciplinarity of the field of gender scholarship and the immense significance of gender to both indviduals and societies, it is probably impossible to produce such a compendium. The editor, advisory team, and contributors are to be credited for tackling a project of such immense scope...O'Brien's commitment to the possibility of a more-informed discourse on the highly complex and nuanced...