1st Edition

Feminist Organizing Across the Generations

By Karen Bojar Copyright 2022
270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

270 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Feminist Organizing Across the Generations spans almost 60 years of feminist history and traces the evolution of feminist activism from the 1960s until the present. Using the Philadelphia chapter of the National Women's Organization as a starting point, Karen Bojar explores how feminist organizing was unfolding in similar ways across the county. The book examines the enormous energy put into... Read more

Part I: Building the feminist movement;  1. The founders;  2. Celebrating victories, managing conflicts;  3. The struggle for gender justice and racial justice;  4. The backlash gains momentum;  Part II: Building feminist service organizations;  5. Challenges facing feminist service organizations;  6. Organizations combatting violence against women;  7. The women’s health movement;  8. Funding the movement;  Part III: Feminist organizing in the 21st century;  9. The Women’s March: The limits of social media mobilization;  10. The decline of established feminist organizations;  11. Young feminists, forging new paths, building new organizations;  Conclusion

Biography

Karen Bojar is Professor Emerita of English and Women’s Studies at the Community College of Philadelphia where she founded the Women’s Studies/Gender Studies program