Moving the mountain : the women's movement in America since 1960 /

Moving the mountain : the women's movement in America since 1960 / Flora Davis.

An in-depth history of the women's movement from the 1960s to the early 1990s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Davis, Flora.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Simon & Schuster, [1991]
Subjects:	Feminism > United States > History. Women > United States > Social conditions. Feminism. Women. Gender identity.

Table of Contents:

The opening salvos
The resurgence of liberal feminism
The founding of NOW
The birth of women's liberation
Experiments in radical equality
The media and the movement
Congress passes the ERA
Turning points
The relegalization of abortion
Women in politics
Changing education.
(Cont.) The women's health movement
Lesbian feminism
Feminists and family issues
Violence against women
Equal pay and the pauperization of women
Diversity: from the melting pot to the salad bowl
Why the ERA lost
The eclipse of the gender gap
The new right and the war on feminism
The unending struggle over abortion
The women's movement in the 1980s
The future of feminism: the 1990s and beyond.