No turning back : the history of feminism and the future of women / Estelle B. Freedman.
Repeatedly declared dead by the media, the women's movement has never been as vibrant as it is today. Indeed as Stanford professor and award-winning author Estelle B. Freedman argues in her compelling new book, feminism has reached a critical momentum from which there is no turning back. A trul...
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Ballantine Books,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The historical case for feminism
- pt. 1. Before feminism
- 2. Gender and power
- pt. 2. The historical emergence of feminisms
- 3. Women's rights, women's work, and women's sphere
- 4. Race and the politics of identity in U.S. feminism
- 5. The global stage and the politics of location
- pt. 3. The politics of work and family
- 6. Never done : women's domestic labor
- 7. Industrialization, wage labor, and the economic gender gap
- 8. Workers and mothers : feminist social policies
- pt. 4. The politics of health and sexuality
- 9. Medicine, markets, and the female body
- 10. Reproduction : the politics of choice
- 11. Sexualities, identities, and self-determination
- 12. Gender and violence
- pt. 5. Feminist visions and strategies
- 13. New words and images : women's creativity as feminist practice
- 14. No turning back : women and politics.