عنوان

Breaking the wave

Title Proper

Breaking the wave

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin and Jacqueline L. Castledine

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Routledge,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2011

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xii, 268 p. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

New directions in American history

Series Title

Series: New directions in American history.

Text of Note

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.

Text of Note

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

Variant Title

women, their organizations, and feminism, 1945-1985

Entry Element

Feminism^aUnited States--History--20th century

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Second-wave feminism^aUnited States

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Women^aPolitical activity--United States--History--20th century

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Feminism.^afast

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Second-wave feminism.^afast

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Women^aPolitical activity.

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United States.^afast

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History.^afast

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Book number

Laughlin, Kathleen A

Castledine, Jacqueline L

English Book