Public Women, Public Words
. Ed(S): Keetley, Dawn; Pettegrew, John
This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s—from Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women to the anarchist and lesbian identity dimensions of radical feminism. Including topics such as sexual autonomy, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the black-feminist resistance to the white-dominated second wave, this volume reflects the unprecedented range of women's issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond. Volume III also charts the great diffusion of feminism with separate sections on multicultural feminism and the feminist presence in media and pop culture. Finally, through the recent writings of feminist intellectuals, it looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.
Public Women, Public Words: A Documentary History of American Feminism provides a comprehensive view of the many strands of feminist thought and actions and is essential for every women's studies and feminism collection.
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Reviews for Public Women, Public Words
Reference and Research Book News
Imaginatively selected and introduced with richly suggestive essays, this collection sets a new standard for documentary collections on the history of U.S. feminism.
Daniel Horowitz, author of Betty Friedan and the Making of the Feminine Mystique This third volume of Public Women, Public Words provides an impressive documentary history of feminism in the last four decades of the last century. The editors provide insightful essays highlighting the significant developments in feminist theory, political, and legal actions across numerous stages and voices of the feminist movement. Their judicious choice of documents includes legal briefs, personal stories, and significant theoretical analyses that will resonate in the memories of older women active in the movement, and provide vicarious experiences for younger readers.
Alice S. Rossi, University of Massachusetts, Amherst This is a tremendous book, not in its size alone but in the scope of materials it makes available. From Betty Friedan’s 'problem without a name' to punkgrrrls of the late '90s, from widely reprinted classic statements like that of the Combahee River Collective to insightful but rarely available reflections like Ellen DuBois’s on why women’s suffrage seemed such an important and radical struggle to her, the collection offers a rich diversity of possibilities for classroom consideration. Reading feminist writers in their own words provides a lively and indispensable complement to reading about them, and this compendium makes it easy to do.
Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin, Madison Recommended.
Choice Reviews
An invaluable one-stop shop for original texts that explore the conflict and consensus in the evolving definition of feminism and the practical impact these ideas have had in contemporary society.
Harriett Woods, former president, National Women's Political Caucus