| Description |
628 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: The View from the Kitchen Table -- Thoughts on the 1999 Edition -- Pt. 1. The Second Wave Begins: Reinventing Feminism. 1. The Opening Salvos. 2. The Resurgence of Liberal Feminism. 3. The Founding of NOW. 4. The Birth of Women's Liberation. 5. Experiments in Radical Equality. 6. The Media and the Movement. 7. Congress Passes the ERA. 8. Turning Points -- Pt. 2. The Movement Divides and Multiplies. 9. The Relegalization of Abortion. 10. Women in Politics. 11. Changing Education. 12. The Women's Health Movement. 13. Lesbian Feminism. 14. Feminists and Family Issues. 15. Violence Against Women. 16. Equal Pay and the Pauperization of Women. 17. Diversity: From the Melting Pot to the Salad Bowl. 18. Why the ERA Lost -- Pt. 3. Confronting the Political Realities. 19. The Eclipse of the Gender Gap. 20. The New Right and the War on Feminism. 21. The Unending Struggle over Abortion. 22. The Women's Movement in the 1980s. 23. The Future of Feminism: The 1990s and Beyond |
| Summary |
"Moving the Mountain tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved "half a revolution" between 1960 and 1990. In this book, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the assumptions, prejudices, and unspoken rules governing a woman's place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle, Moving the Mountain conveys the excitement, the frustration, and the creative chaos of feminism's second wave."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
"Illini books edition" |
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Originally published: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1991. With new introd. and last chapter |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 597-605) and index |
| Subject |
Feminism -- United States -- History.
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Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
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| LC no. |
99011521 |
| ISBN |
0252067827 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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