2nd Edition

Rethinking American Women's Activism

By Annelise Orleck Copyright 2022
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Rethinking American Women's Activism traces intersecting streams of feminist activism from the nineteenth century to the present. This enthralling narrative brings to life an array of women activists from the abolition, suffrage, labor, consumer, civil rights, welfare rights, farm workers’, and low-wage workers’ movements, and from campus fights against sexual violence, #MeToo, the Red... Read more

Prologue: Reflecting on the Wave Metaphor and the Myth of Monolithic Feminism

Chapter 1: Rethinking the So-Called First Wave - An Extremely Brief History of Women's Rights Activism in the U.S. Before 1920

Chapter 2: Civil Rights, Labor Feminism, and Mother Activism from 1920 through the 1940s

Chapter 3: Varieties of Feminism in a Conservative Age

Chapter 4: Equality NOW! - Feminism and the Law

Chapter 5: Raising Consciousness, Venting Anger, Finding Sisterhood: "The Revolution is WHat is Happening in Every Woman's Mind"

Chapter 6: Women's Movements for Redistributive and Social Justice: Other Faces of Radical Feminism

Chapter 7: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Rights, Lesbian Feminism

Chapter 8: Anti-Feminist Backlash and Feminism Reborn: The 1970s through 2013

Biography

Annelise Orleck is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (1995, 2017); Soviet Jewish Americans (2001);  Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005, 2023); and We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018).