1st Edition
Faces Of Feminism An Activist's Reflections On The Women's Movement
By Sheila Tobias
Copyright 1997
348 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
352 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
To the people whose feminism shaped mine: -- Preface -- 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 -- The Women's Movement Goes to Work -- Second-Generation Issues -- Antifeminist Women on the Right -- Feminism and Sexual Preference -- Third-Generation Issues -- New Theory, New Scholarship -- Fissures into Fractures -- Surviving the 1980s -- The End of a Movement -- Chronology
Biography
Shelia Tobias
