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Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Finn Enke
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Description for Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
Paperback. An analysis of the role public spaces-parks, clubs, book stores-played in shaping the feminist movement in three Midwestern cities during the 1960s and 1970s. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 392 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 558.
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They created alternative spaces, such as coffeehouses, where women could socialize and ... Read more
In Finding the Movement, Anne Enke reveals that diverse women’s engagement with public spaces gave rise to and profoundly shaped second-wave feminism. Focusing on women’s activism in Detroit, Chicago, and Minneapolis-St. Paul during the 1960s and 1970s, Enke describes how women across race and class created a massive groundswell of feminist activism by directly intervening in the urban landscape. They secured illicit meeting spaces and gained access to public athletic fields. They fought to open bars to women and abolish gendered dress codes and prohibitions against lesbian congregation. They created alternative spaces, such as coffeehouses, where women could socialize and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Series
Radical Perspectives
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822340836
SKU
V9780822340836
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About Finn Enke
Anne Enke is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies, History, and LGBT Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Reviews for Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism
“In places like softball fields, church basements, and dance floors, Anne Enke locates a cast of compelling characters who don’t usually make it into history books. The result is a startlingly original history of second-wave feminism. Enke forces us to think freshly about the 1960s, political mobilization, and the ways that people change the world around them.”—John D’Emilio, coauthor of ... Read more