Moving the Mountain,9780252067822

Moving the Mountain

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ISBN13: 9780252067822
ISBN10: 0252067827
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-08-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr
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Summary

"Moving the Mountaintells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved ""half a revolution"" between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book, the most complete history of the women's movement to date, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the prejudices and unspoken rules governing a woman's place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle,Moving the Mountainconveys the excitement, the frustration, and the creative chaos of feminism's Second Wave. A new afterword assesses the movement's progress in the 1990s and prospects for the new century. "

Table of Contents

Introduction: The View from the Kitchen Table 9(3)
Thoughts on the 1999 Edition 12(3)
PART 1: The Second Wave Begins: Reinventing Feminism
The Opening Salvos
15(11)
The Resurgence of Liberal Feminism
26(23)
The Founding of NOW
49(20)
The Birth of Women's Liberation
69(25)
Experiments in Radical Equality
94(12)
The Media and the Movement
106(15)
Congress Passes the ERA
121(16)
Turning Points
137(20)
PART 2: The Movement Divides and Multiplies
The Relegalization of Abortion
157(27)
Women in Politics
184(21)
Changing Education
205(22)
The Women's Health Movement
227(32)
Lesbian Feminism
259(19)
Feminists and Family Issues
278(30)
Violence Against Women
308(24)
Equal Pay and the Pauperization of Women
332(24)
Diversity: From the Melting Pot to the Salad Bowl
356(29)
Why the ERA Lost
385(30)
PART 3: Confronting the Political Realities
The Eclipse of the Gender Gap
415(18)
The New Right and the War on Feminism
433(20)
The Unending Struggle over Abortion
453(18)
The Women's Movement in the 1980s
471(20)
The Future of Feminism: The 1990s and Beyond
491(22)
Acknowledgments 513(4)
Abbreviations Frequently Used 517(2)
Notes 519(78)
Bibliography 597(10)
Index 607

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