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Rethinking American women's activism

Title: Rethinking American women's activism / Annelise Orleck.
Author: Orleck, Annelise.
Publication: New York : Routledge, 2015.

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Description

xiii, 230 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In this enthralling narrative, Annelise Orleck chronicles the history of the American women's movement from the nineteenth century to the present. Starting with an incisive introduction that calls for a reconceptualization of American feminist history to encompass multiple streams of women's activism, she weaves the personal with the political, vividly evoking the events and people who participated in our era's most far-reaching social revolutions. In short, thematic chapters, Orleck enables readers to understand the impact of women's activism, and highlights how feminism has flourished through much of the past century within social movements that have too often been treated as completely separate. Showing that women's activism has taken many forms, has intersected with issues of class and race, and has continued during periods of backlash, Rethinking American Women's Activism is a perfect introduction to the subject for anyone interested in women's history and social movements"--

Series Statement

American social and political movements of the twentieth century

Uniform Title

American social and political movements of the twentieth century.

Subjects

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue: Reflecting on the wave metaphor and the myth of monolithic feminism -- Rethinking the so-called first wave : an extremely brief history of women's rights activism in the U.S. before 1920 -- Civil rights, labor feminism and mother activism from 1920 through the 1940s -- Varieties of feminism in a conservative age -- Equality NOW! : feminism and the law -- Raising consciousness, venting anger, finding sisterhood : "The revolution is what is happening in every woman's mind" -- Women's movements for redistributive and social justice : other faces of radical feminism -- Lesbian lives, lesbian rights, lesbian feminism -- Anti-feminist backlash and feminism reborn : the 1970s through 2013.

Call Number

JFE 16-13396

ISBN

9780415811729
0415811724
9780415811736
0415811732

LCCN

2014008522

OCLC

872622752

Author

Orleck, Annelise.

Title

Rethinking American women's activism / Annelise Orleck.

Publisher

New York : Routledge, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

American social and political movements of the twentieth century

American social and political movements of the twentieth century.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

AUTH: DARTMOUTH COLLEGE. CHRONICLES THE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT FROM THE LATE 19TH C. TO PRESENT.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-13396

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