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Revolutionizing Expectations: Women's Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980
Melissa Blair
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Description for Revolutionizing Expectations: Women's Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980
Hardcover. Blair explores feminist activism at the local level during a critical period of social transformation, showing how a multifaceted women s movement of white, African American, and Hispanic women worked together to bring about tremendous changes in the 1970s." Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJP; JFSJ1; JPVH1; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 458.
In the 1970s the women’s movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the United States. Millions of women participated in a movement that fundamentally altered the country’s ideas about how women could and should contribute to American society. Revolutionizing Expectations tells the story of some of those women, many of whom took part in the movement in unexpected ways. By looking at feminist activism in Durham, Denver, and Indianapolis, Melissa Estes Blair uncovers not only the work of local NOW chapters but also the feminist activism of Leagues of Women Voters and of women’s religious groups in ... Read more
In the 1970s the women’s movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the United States. Millions of women participated in a movement that fundamentally altered the country’s ideas about how women could and should contribute to American society. Revolutionizing Expectations tells the story of some of those women, many of whom took part in the movement in unexpected ways. By looking at feminist activism in Durham, Denver, and Indianapolis, Melissa Estes Blair uncovers not only the work of local NOW chapters but also the feminist activism of Leagues of Women Voters and of women’s religious groups in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820339795
SKU
V9780820339795
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About Melissa Blair
Melissa Estes Blair is assistant professor of history and political science at Warren Wilson College, USA.
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