What does the Obama presidency mean for women, especially in a time of financial crisis? We're pleased to have a guest post today from Lisa Levenstein, assistant professor of history at UNC-Greensboro and author of A Movement Without Marches: African American Women and the Politics of Poverty in Postwar Philadelphia, which we will publish May 1 (we're accepting orders now). In her book, Levenstein explores what led poor African American women to turn to government services, what constraints came with those services, and how women fought against stereotypes that labeled them lazy or dependent and...