Breaking the wave
Subtitle: women, their organizations, and feminism, 1945-1985
By: edited by Kathleen A. Laughlin and Jacqueline L. Castledine
Series: New directions in American history; New directions in American history
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780415873970; 9780415874007
Subjects: Second-wave feminism; History; Feminism; Political activity; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [252]-256) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The long history of feminism / Kathleen A. Laughlin; title: Civic feminists : the politics of the Minnesota Federation of Business and Professional women's clubs, 1942-1965 / Kathleen A. Laughlin; title: The legal origin of "The personal is political" : Bella Abzug and sexual politics in Cold War America / Leandra Zarnow; title: "I'm glad as heck that you exist" : feminist lesbian organizing in the 1950s / Marcia Gallo; title: Exporting civic womanhood : gender and nation building / Catherine E. Rymph; title: The National Council of Negro Women, human rights, and the Cold War / Julie A. Gallagher; title: From Ladies Aid to NGO : transformations in Methodist women's organizing in postwar America / A. Lanethea Mathews-Gardner; title: The consumers' protective committee : women's activism in postwar Harlem / Julia Sandy-Bailey; title: "Pregnant? Need help? Call Jane" : service as radical action in the abortion underground in Chicago / Rebecca M. Kluchin; title: Feminizing Portland, Oregon : a history of the League of Women Voters in the postwar era, 1950-1975 / Jennifer A. Stevens; title: Barrio women : community and coalition in the heartland / Janet Weaver; title: "Stop that Rambo shit...this is femininst softball" : reconsidering women's organizing in the Reagan era and beyond / Jacqueline L. Castledine and Julia Sandy-Bailey; title: "It would be stupendous for us girls" : campaigning for women judges without waving / Sally J. Kenney; title: Building lesbian studies in the 1970s and 1980s / Susan K. Freeman; title: Conclusion : Looking backward, looking forward / Jacqueline L. Castledine.