Research Catalog

Title

Making waves : grassroots feminism in Duluth and Superior / Elizabeth Ann Bartlett.

Author

Bartlett, Elizabeth Ann

Publication

St. Paul, MN : Minnesota Historical Society Press, [2016]

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Description

xv, 325 pages; 23 cm

Summary

"Beginning in the late 1970s, a wave of feminist organizing broke on the shores of the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin. Its impact has transformed the lives of women and men in these communities and far beyond. Beginning with one of the first rape crisis programs and battered women?s shelters in the nation, pioneering organizations sprang up all over Duluth and Superior to provide services and advocacy, raise awareness, and effect change on a wide range of women?s issues. Making Waves presents the histories of ten innovative grassroots feminist organizations to paint an overall picture of feminist activism in the Twin Ports over the last forty years. Through the voices of the women who formed and developed them, the book tells how these organizations began, their struggles and their triumphs, their lessons and their legacies. Author Elizabeth Ann Bartlett shows that a combination of factors?the small-town community, the presence of key movers and shakers, the influence of the Anishinaabe, the proximity to Lake Superior and the northern wilderness, and a heritage of progressive organizing?all contributed to the rise and flourishing of these prominent feminist organizations in northern Minnesota and Wisconsin. Elizabeth Ann Bartlett is a professor of women?s studies at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. She has lived in Duluth since 1980 and has been an active member of the feminist community there ever since. She is the author of four previous books and dozens of articles and papers."--Amazon.com.

Subject

• Feminism > Minnesota > History
• Second-wave feminism > Minnesota
• Women's rights > Minnesota > History
• Women > History. > Minnesota
• Feminism
• Second-wave feminism
• Women > Political activity
• Women's rights
• Minnesota

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- A Note on Methodology -- Introduction -- There Is Something Special in Duluth -- A Brief History of Feminist Organizing in the Twin Ports -- Program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault -- The Women's Coalition for Battered Women/Safe Haven Shelter and Resource Center -- Domestic Abuse Intervention Project and Praxis International -- Women's Health Center and the Building for Women -- Northcountry Women's Coffeehouse -- Center Against Sexual and Domestic Abuse -- Women's Transitional Housing Coalition/Women's Community Development Organization and Women in Construction -- Mending the Sacred Hoop -- Aurora: A Northland Lesbian Center -- American Indian Community Housing Organization -- Lessons Learned -- Conclusion -- Timeline of Events.

ISBN

• 9781681340111
• 1681340119
• 9781681340128 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016019766

OCLC

948339686

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library