عنوان

Breaking the wave

Breaking the wave

edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin and Jacqueline L. Castledine

New York

Routledge,

2011

xii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.

New directions in American history

Series: New directions in American history.

Introduction: The long history of feminism /Kathleen A. Laughlin --Civic feminists: the politics of the Minnesota Federation of Business and Professional women's clubs, 1942-1965 /Kathleen A. Laughlin --The legal origin of "The personal is political": Bella Abzug and sexual politics in Cold War America /Leandra Zarnow --"I'm glad as heck that you exist": feminist lesbian organizing in the 1950s /Marcia Gallo --Exporting civic womanhood: gender and nation building /Catherine E. Rymph --The National Council of Negro Women, human rights, and the Cold War /Julie A. Gallagher --From Ladies Aid to NGO: transformations in Methodist women's organizing in postwar America /A. Lanethea Mathews-Gardner --The consumers' protective committee: women's activism in postwar Harlem /Julia Sandy-Bailey --"Pregnant? Need help? Call Jane": service as radical action in the abortion underground in Chicago /Rebecca M. Kluchin --Feminizing Portland, Oregon: a history of the League of Women Voters in the postwar era, 1950-1975 /Jennifer A. Stevens --Barrio women: community and coalition in the heartland /Janet Weaver --"Stop that Rambo shit...this is femininst softball": reconsidering women's organizing in the Reagan era and beyond /Jacqueline L. Castledine and Julia Sandy-Bailey --"It would be stupendous for us girls": campaigning for women judges without waving /Sally J. Kenney --Building lesbian studies in the 1970s and 1980s /Susan K. Freeman --Conclusion: Looking backward, looking forward /Jacqueline L. Castledine.

Includes bibliographical references )p. ]252[-256( and index.

women, their organizations, and feminism, 1945-1985

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Second-wave feminism^aUnited States

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Laughlin, Kathleen A

Castledine, Jacqueline L

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