Yours in Sisterhood Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism

Name: Yours in Sisterhood Ms. Magazine and the Promise of Popular Feminism
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ISBN: 9780807847350

ISBN-10: 0807847356

ISBN-13: 9780807847350

Edition: 1998

Authors: Amy Erdman Farrell

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In the winter of 1972, the first issue of Ms. magazine hit the newsstands. For some activists in the women's movement, the birth of this new publication heralded feminism's coming of age; for others, it signaled the capitulation of the women's movement to crass commercialism. But whatever its critical reception, Ms. quickly gained national success, selling out its first issue in only eight days and becoming a popular icon of the women's movement almost immediately. Amy Erdman Farrell traces the history of Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of Ms. itself, she examines…

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List price: $42.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/21/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 248
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.57" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



like a Tarantula on a Banana Boat the Origins of Ms. Magazine



Self-Help and Sisterhood Ms. in the 1970s



This Side of Combat Boots Ms. in the 1980s



Readers Writing Ms



a Change of Skin or a Change of Heart? Ms. in Transition, 1987-1989


Conclusion Imagining a Popular Feminism


Notes


Bibliography


Index


Gender And American Culture