Personal Politics The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left

Name: Personal Politics The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left
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ISBN: 9780394742281

ISBN-10: 0394742281

ISBN-13: 9780394742281

Edition: 1980

Authors: Sara Evans, Sara M. Evans

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The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, interviews with dozens of the central figures, and her own personal experience, Evans explores how the political stance of these women was catalyzed and shaped by their sharp disillusionment at a time when their skills as political activists were newly and highly developed, enabling them to join forces to…

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List price: $12.76
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/12/1980
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Prologue: Cracks in the Mold



Southern White Women in a Southern Black Movement



Going South



Black Power-Catalyst for Feminism



A Reassertion of the Personal



Let the People Decide



The Failure of Success-Women in the Movement



The Dam Breaks



Personal Politics


Appendix


SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement) Sex and Caste


"We Started from Different Ends of the Spectrum" Liberation of Women


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index