Research Catalog

Title

Significant contemporary American feminists : a biographical sourcebook / edited by Jennifer Scanlon.

Publication

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Scanlon, Jennifer, 1958-

Description

xv, 361 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The history of the second wave of feminism in the United States demonstrates the potential for both serious social change and seemingly intractable divisions among women. Race, ethnicity, social class, sexual orientation, and religion have all been dividing influences among women, shaping their various perspectives on and relations to the women's movement. Yet collectively, women's efforts―identified as second wave feminism―are seen as having made a difference. This book highlights the lives and work of fifty second wave feminists, women who have served as catalysts in the developing feminist movement. A diverse group―playwrights and politicians, grassroots organizers and scientists, poets and theologians―they provide the reader with compelling stories of individual women's lives, collective feminist struggles, and the possibilities of feminist social change. Each woman's story provides inspiration to those interested in the power of one, and collectively, the stories show the range of motivations, activities, and accomplishments of feminist thinkers and activists today. Each entry contains three parts: a biographical portrait of the individual, including information about education, family life, and early activism; an analytical discussion, highlighting the person's accomplishments and her relationship to U.S. feminism; and a bibliographical section containing a selective list of the subject's publications and writings about her and her work."--Amazon.com viewed Sept. 24, 2021.

Subject

• Feminists > United States > Biography > Dictionaries
• Feminism > United States > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries
• Feminism > United States > Bio-bibliography
• Feminism
• Feminists
• Biografie
• Feministin
• Feministen
• Vrouwenbeweging
• Feminists
• Feminism
• Feminists > United States > Biography > Encyclopedias
• Feminists > United States > Bio-bibliography
• United States
• USA

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• Bio-bibliography
• Reference works
• Dictionaries
• Reference works.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-339) and index.

Contents

Bella Abzug / Mary L. Ertel -- Paula Gunn Allen / Gönul Pültar -- Gloria Anzaldúa / Judith Richards -- Frances Beale / Marina Karides and Joya Misra -- Rita Mae Brown / Julie A. Davies -- Charlotte Bunch / Viki Soady -- Pat Califia / Lisa Sigel -- Judy Chicago / Beatriz Badikian-Gartler -- Shirley Chisholm / Frederick J. Simonelli -- Esther Ngan-Ling Chow / Linda Wong -- Pearl Cleage / Linda Rohrer Paige -- Kate Clinton / Annmarie Pinarski -- Mary Daly / Margaret R. LaWare -- Angela Davis / Jennifer Oldham -- Susan Faludi / Ann Mauger Colbert -- Shulamith Firestone / Karen Garner -- Jo Freeman / Jennifer Scanlon -- Betty Friedan / Susan Butler -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Gwenn Brown Nealis -- Bell Hooks / Lara E. Dieckmann -- Dolores Huerta / Nerea A. Llamas -- June Jordon / Nikki Senecal -- Evelyn Fox Keller / Anne F. Eisenberg -- Florynce Kennedy / Cheryl Rodriguez -- Audre Lorde / Lara E. Dieckmann -- Catharine MacKinnon / Eileen Bresnahan -- Olga Madar / Amy Beth Aronson -- Wilma Mankiller / Michaela Crawford Reaves -- Del Martin / Danielle DeMuth -- Kate Millett / Nancy McCampbell Grace -- Cherríe Moraga / Grace Sikorski -- Robin Morgan / Stacey Donohue -- Pauli Murray / Uche Egemonye -- Eleanor Holmes Norton / Tracy Wahl -- Alice Paul / Amy Butler -- Anna Quindlin / Carolyn Kitch -- Adrienne Rich / Sioban Dillon -- Faith Ringgold / Ann Lee Morgan -- Rosemary Ruether / Beth Blissman -- Joanna Russ / Jeanne Cortiel -- Patricia Schroeder / John R. Nealis -- Eleanor Smeal / Pat Murphy -- Barbara Smith / Jaime M. Grant -- Gloria Steinem / Ann Mauger Colbert -- Margo St. James / Diane L. McKay -- Alice Walker / Angela Cotten -- Rebecca Walker / Jennifer Kohout -- Michele Wallace / Viki Soady -- Sara Weddington / Susan L. Patnode -- Ellen Willis / Deborah J. Gepner Salvaggio.

ISBN

• 0313301255
• 9780313301254

LCCN

98022899

OCLC

• ocm39050923
• 39050923
• SCSB-572046

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library