Elizabeth Abel

Photographic images of the Jim Crow South, including pictures of signs, lunch counters, water fountains, and other spaces that enacted segregation. In addition, the author considers how these spaces and images played a role in segregating black bodies, and in producing a racialized consciousness in American culture.

Solid, mostly well-written, some what dated, academic approaches to what became "women studies." Simply, it's a reader, and a primer. If you find a copy, it is worth your time. But it is easily replaceable by more recent collections.