The Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Maxwell, Angie (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shields, Todd (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2018.
• Θέματα: Identity politics.; Women.; Feminist theory.; Politics and Gender.; Women's Studies.; Feminism.

This book chronicles the influence of second wave feminism on everything from electoral politics to LGBTQ rights. The original descriptions of second wave feminism focused on elite, white voices, obscuring the accomplishments of many activists, as third wave feminists rightly criticized. Those limit...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction: Toward a New Understanding of Second-Wave Feminism
• 2. Generations Later, Retelling the Story
• 3. Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Rise of a New Southern Strategy in the 1970s
• 4. "No More Silence!": Feminist Activism and Religion in the Second Wave
• 5. Feminist Economics: Second Wave, Tidal Wave, or Barely a Ripple?
• 6. The Gender Gap as a Tool for Women's Political Empowerment: The Formative Years, 1980-84
• 7. Latina Mobilization: A Strategy for Increasing the Political Participation of Latino Families
• 8. Black Women Lawmakers and Second-Wave Feminism: An Intersectional Analysis on Generational Cohorts within Southern State Legislatures from 1990 to 2014
• 9. Not in Conflict, But in Coalition: Imagining Lesbians at the Center of the Second Wave
• 10. Conclusion: Assessing Second-Wave Historiography.