Feminist Coalitions Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States

Name: Feminist Coalitions Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States
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ISBN: 9780252075391

ISBN-10: 0252075390

ISBN-13: 9780252075391

Edition: 2007

Authors: Stephanie Gilmore, Sara Evans, Maria Bevacqua, Tamar Carroll, Marisa Chappell

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Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but the contributors to this volume remind readers that feminists in the 1960s and 1970s also formed many strong partnerships, often allying themselves with a diverse range of social justice efforts on a local grassroots level. These essays focus on coalitions and alliances in which feminists and other activists joined forces to address crucial social justice issues such as reproductive rights, the peace movement, women's health, Christianity and other religions, and neighborhood activism, as well as alliances crossing boundaries of race, class,…

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List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 5/23/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Tamar W. Carroll is Associate Professor of History at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Marisa Chappell teaches history at Oregon State University.



Foreword




Thinking about Feminist Coalitions




Creating a National Feminist Agenda: Coalition Building in the 1970s




Attentive to Difference: Ms. Magazine, Coalition Building, and Sisterhood




The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's Health and Second-Wave Feminism




Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and "the Movement," 1967-73




Enabled by the Holy Spirit: Church Women United and the Development of Ecumenical Christian Feminism




Fighting for Abortion as a "Health Right" in Washington, D.C.




Reconsidering Violence against Women: Coalition Politics in the Antirape Movement




"Welfare's Green Problem": Cross-Race Coalitions in Welfare Rights Organizing




Unlikely Allies: Forging a Multiracial, Class-Based Women's Movement in 1970s Brooklyn




The Cooperative Origins of EEOC v. Sears




Demanding a New Family Wage: Feminist Consensus in the 1970s Full Employment Campaign




Learning from Coalitions: Intersections and New Directions in Activism and Scholarship



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Index