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The Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics / Angie Maxwell, Todd Shields, editors.

This book chronicles the influence of second wave feminism on everything from electoral politics to LGBTQ rights. The original descriptions of second wave feminism focused on elite, white voices, obscuring the accomplishments of many activists, as third wave feminists rightly criticized. Those limit...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Maxwell, Angie (Editor), Shields, Todd (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Subjects:
Political science.
Feminist theory.
Political Science and International Relations.
Politics and Gender.
Women's studies.
Feminism.
Feminism > United States.
Second-wave feminism.
Women > Political activity > United States.
Women > Political activity.
Feminism
Feminist theory
Political science
Women's studies
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Toward a New Understanding of Second-Wave Feminism
  • 2. Generations Later, Retelling the Story
  • 3. Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Rise of a New Southern Strategy in the 1970s
  • 4. "No More Silence!": Feminist Activism and Religion in the Second Wave
  • 5. Feminist Economics: Second Wave, Tidal Wave, or Barely a Ripple?
  • 6. The Gender Gap as a Tool for Women's Political Empowerment: The Formative Years, 1980-84
  • 7. Latina Mobilization: A Strategy for Increasing the Political Participation of Latino Families
  • 8. Black Women Lawmakers and Second-Wave Feminism: An Intersectional Analysis on Generational Cohorts within Southern State Legislatures from 1990 to 2014
  • 9. Not in Conflict, But in Coalition: Imagining Lesbians at the Center of the Second Wave
  • 10. Conclusion: Assessing Second-Wave Historiography.

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