| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 348 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: "To My Yankee Friends ": Southern Feminism, Northern Imperialism, and National Historiography, 1965-present -- CHAPTER 1 "Me? A Feminist?": Proto-feminist Women's Organizations and the Long Women's Rights Movement, 1950-1967 -- CHAPTER 2 "In the Eyes of God ": Religion and Louisiana's Second Wave, 1950-1985 -- CHAPTER 3 "Their Courage Inspired Me": Black and White Gulf Coast Women and Grassroots Feminism, 1960-1968 -- CHAPTER 4 "To Empower Women": The Crusades against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, 1972-1997 -- CHAPTER 5 "Murder or Mercy?": Expanding Access to Abortion and Birth Control in Louisiana, 1960-1974 -- CHAPTER 6 "Cherchez Les Femmes?": Universities and the Movement, 1965-1990 -- CHAPTER 7 "We Are All Sisters" The Politics of Sex and Sexuality, 1965-1985 -- CHAPTER 8 "I Wanted More for My Daughters": The Politics of Race, Gender, and Class in the Fight for the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1985 -- CHAPTER 9 "Real Progress for Women": Attorneys and Gender Equality, 1965-1995 -- EPILOGUE: Into the Twenty-First Century -- APPENDIX 1 People Interviewed -- APPENDIX 2 Participants in the New Orleans Women's Movement -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Summary |
Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere. In Remapping Second-Wave Feminism, Janet Allured attempts to reshape the national narrative by focusing on the grassroots women's movement in the South, particularly in Louisiana.This book delves into unexplored origins of the feminist movement. While acknowledging the ways that the fight for African American civil rights produced the women's liberation movement in the South--and subsequently in the North--Allured also locates other wellsprings of the movement that were particularly important to southern change-seekers, especially preexisting women's organizations such as the League of Women Voters and the YWCA. Also, for many southern feminists, being part of a faith tradition that emphasized social justice reform is what ultimately propelled them into working for gender equality. Allured highlights key figures in Louisiana; divisions based on regional, sexual, and ideological differences; access to abortion; lawsuits that had national implications that emanated from southern women; and the fight against sexual assault and domestic violence. Through detailed archival and oral history research, she has forged a new path, making this a foundational work for the field. Remapping Second-Wave Feminism will amend how we reflexively view feminism as a northern phenomenon, giving proper due to the southern contribution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-338) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Second-wave feminism -- Louisiana -- History
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Feminism -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century
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Women's rights -- Louisiana -- History -- 20th century
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Women -- Louisiana -- Social conditions -- 20th century
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Feminism.
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Second-wave feminism.
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Women -- Social conditions.
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Women's rights.
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Louisiana.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2015047526 |
| ISBN |
0820350044 |
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9780820350042 |
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9780820345383 |
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0820345385 |
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