Research Catalog

Title

Moving the mountain : the women's movement in America since 1960 / Flora Davis.

Author

Davis, Flora

Publication

Urbana ; Chicago : University of Illinois Press, 1999.

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Details

Alternative Title

Women's movement in America since 1960

Subject

• Feminism > United States > History
• Women > United States > Social conditions

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991. With new introd. and last chapter.
• "Illini books edition".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 597-605) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The second wave begins: reinventing feminism. The opening salvos -- The resurgence of liberal feminism -- The founding of NOW -- The birth of the women's liberation -- Experiments in radical equality -- The media and the movement -- Congress passes the ERA -- Turning points. 2. The movement divides and multiplies. The relegalization of abortion -- Women in politics -- Changing education -- The women's health movement -- Lesbian feminism -- Femenists and family issues -- Violence against women -- Equal pay and the pauperization of women -- Diversity: from the melting pot to the salad bowl -- Why the ERA lost. 3. Confronting the political realities. The eclipse of the gender gap -- The new right and the war on feminism -- The unending struggle over abortion -- The women's movement in the 1980s -- The future of feminism: the 1990s and beyond.

ISBN

0252067827 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99011521^

OCLC

• 40660147
• SCSB-12293920

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library