Description: A biography of a trailblazer for abolition, gender equality, and social justice
Brief description: Kristin Waters is professor emerita at Worcester State University and resident scholar at the Women's Studies Research Center at Brandeis University. She is author of Women and Men Political Theorists: Enlightened Conversations and coeditor of Black Women's Intellectual Traditions: Speaking Their Minds, which received the Letitia Woods Brown Award from the Association of Black Women Historians. This award-winning book was also named to the list of 50 Recommended Reads on Black Feminism (https: //blackfeminisms.com/books-black-feminism/). She also curated the exhibition Abolition/Resistance: Works from the Alan Sussman Rare Book Collection at Bard College, which was incorporated into a permanent online exhibition and teaching resource on the following website: http: //omekalib.bard.edu/exhibits/show/abolition-resistance--works-fr.
Review Quotes: Waters offers both a groundbreaking and an archives-based study of Stewart that speaks to religious studies and historical scholarship. She expansively details the Black Boston that inspired and influenced Stewart beyond simply the realm of gender.--Janaka Lewis "The Journal of the Civil War Era"