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Faces of feminism : an activist's reflections on the women's movement / Sheila Tobias.

Tobias, Sheila. (Author).

Summary:

"As one of the main players in the second wave of feminism, Sheila Tobias returns to Kate Millet's central tenet, "sexual politics," and argues that it can still unite progressive men and women around a common set of goals. Providing a map of a complex terrain, Tobias details "generations" of issues, each more radical and therefore harder to tackle than the ones before. She sets the story in two contexts: feminism's own evolving strategies and America's political landscape. Even though her passion for feminism remains, she is not unwilling to critique the sisterhood and herself for failing to see, for example, that not every woman would be a feminist nor every man an enemy. In the heady first years, feminists forgot that deeper even than gender is the liberal/conservative divide in American politics. From the origins of the movement through feminist theory and new scholarship on women, Tobias traces the political history of the second wave and its comeuppance at the hands of Phyllis Schafly's StopERA -- coincidental with the nation's careering toward the Right. Somehow, feminism survived the 1980s, but by having to fight brush fires throughout the Reagan-Bush presidencies, the movement lost some of its breadth and much of its taste for the mainstream. Because of her activism and her feeling for the period she chronicles, Tobias is at once inside and outside the issues of sexual preference, pornography, the draft, the Mommy Track, comparable worth, affirmative action, reproductive rights, and the challenges of equality versus difference."--Publisher description.

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  • ISBN: 081332842X
  • ISBN: 9780813328423
  • ISBN: 9780813328430
  • ISBN: 0813328438
  • Physical Description: xvi, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1997.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-320) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Gender and politics redefined -- The emergence of women's rights as a political issue -- Feminism in the postsuffrage era -- Women at work -- Betty Friedan and the feminine mystique -- The origins of the second wave of feminism : three strands and an accident -- The women's movement goes to work : role equity issues -- Second-generation issues : conflict over role change -- Antifeminist women on the right : the battle over the ERA -- Feminism and sexual preference : lesbians and lesbian rights -- Third-generation issues : issues on which feminists do not agree -- New theory, new scholarship -- Fissures into fractures -- Surviving the 1980s -- The end of a movement.

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Feminism > United States.
Women > Civil rights.
Women > Political activity.
Feminist theory.
Feminism.
Feminist theory.
Women > Political activity.
Women's rights.
United States.

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