Separate roads to feminism : Black, Chicana, and White feminist movements in America's second wave / Benita Roth.
Traces the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The emergence and development of racial/ethnic feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s
- Second-Wave feminism(s)
- The whitewashing of the Second Wave
- Feminist movements and intersectionality: recasting the Second Wave
- Feminist emergences, intersectionality, and social movement theory
- Methodological considerations / the plan of the book.
- 1. To whom do you refer? Structure and the situated feminist
- Structure in accounts of feminist emergence
- How much is enough? The relatively deprived as challengers
- Inequality and the positing of a postwar transracial / ethnic middle class
- to whom do you compare? The salience of race/ethnicity plus class
- Conclusion: structure, awareness, and the background to the making of organizational distinct racial/ethnic feminism.
- 2. The "Fourth World" is born : intramovement experience, oppositional political communities, and the emergence of the White women's liberation movement
- Introduction: the movement level
- Dynamics of facilitation and constraint
- Redefining liberation
- The debate over separation and autonomy
- New Left hostility to a new Feminist Movement
- Feminist responses to hostility: a new audience for organizing
- Organizing by women's liberationists: creating an autonomous movement
- Conclusion: reforming a community versus forming one.
- 3. The Vanguard Center : intramovement experience and the emergence of black feminism
- -Introduction: Black feminism as the "Vanguard Center"
- Where were the Black feminists? Looking in the wrong places
- Black women and changes in the Civil Rights Movement
- Black feminists respond: early organizations
- The Black Woman, Black liberation, and middle-class style
- Responses to the White women's liberation
- Black feminist organizing within/outside the Black Movement: questions of autonomy
- Conclusion: the influence of the Vanguard Center.
- 4. "We called ourselves 'Feministas'" : intramovement experience and the emergence of Chicana Feminism
- Introduction: "Feministas," not "Feminists"
- Chicanas in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s
- Early organizing by Chicana Feminists
- The 1971 Houston Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza/First national Chicana Conference
- Challenging the machismo in Chicanismo, and other Chicana feminist concerns
- Chicana feminist organizations in the 1970s and the problem of backlash
- Counterarguments: the historical Chicana feminist and the need to remake the political family
- Chicana feminism's relationship with White women's liberation: sympathies versus Sisterhood
- Fitting into the struggle: Chicana feminist organizing through the 1970s
- Conclusion: organizationally distinct Chicana feminism in the Second Wave.
- 5. Organizing one's own : the competitive social movement sector and the rise of organizationally distinct feminist movements
- Introduction: the intermovement level and feminist emergences
- The competitive social movement sector
- The social movement economy and the feminist threat
- White women's liberation and universal sisterhood
- "Either / or" from everywhere: African American and Chicana feminist responses
- Organizing one's own: an ethos and its origins
- Conclusion: the legacy of intermovement politics and possibilities for feminist organizing
- Conclusion: feminists on their own and for their own: revisiting and "re-visioning" Second-Wave feminisms
- Second-Wave feminisms, plural
- Second-Wave feminisms and theoretical considerations
- Bridging divisions: the legacy of Second-Wave feminisms and coalition making
- Last words
- Appendix: The interviews / Living after the Second Wave.