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Informationen zum Autor NANCY MACLEAN Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1989 is professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. She studies the workings of class, gender, race, and region in twentieth-century social movements and public policy. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan 1994, was named a "noteworthy" book of the year by the New York Times Book Review, and received the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Owsley Prize from the Southern Historical Association, and the Rosenhaupt Award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Her most recent book, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace 2006, received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, the Willard Hurst Prize for best book in sociolegal history from the Law and Society Association, the Labor History Best Book Prize from the International Association of Labor History Institutions, the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, and the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council. Klappentext The American women's movement was one of the most influential social movements of the twentieth century. Longstanding ideas and habits came under scrutiny and institutions were changed. Maclean's introduction and collection of primary sources engage students with the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women's history. Zusammenfassung The American women's movement was one of the most influential social movements of the twentieth century. Longstanding ideas and habits came under scrutiny and institutions were changed. Maclean's introduction and collection of primary sources engage students with the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women's history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Preface PART ONE INTRODUCTION: A MOVEMENT THAT CHANGED A NATION The Impact of Activism The Long Women's Movement The Chilling Effects of the Red Scare Civil Rights Organizing Offers a Way Forward The New Feminism of the "Second Wave" Changing Culture and Policy The Conservative Backlash Carrying on in a Polarized Era American Feminists on a Global Stage PART TWO THE DOCUMENTS1. Congress of American Women, "The Position of the American Woman Today," 19462. Edith M. Stern, "Women are Household Slaves," 19493. United Auto Workers, "A Union Protects Its Women Members," 19554. Daughters of Bilitis, "Purpose of the Daughters of Bilitis," 1955 5. Ella Baker, "Developing Leadership among Other People," in Civil Rights 19606. Ethol Barol Taylor, "'There was such a feeling of sisterhood' in Working for Peace," 19627. President's Commission on the Status of Women, "Invitation to Action," 1963 8. Pauli Murray, "Women's Rights Are a Part of Human Rights," 19649. National Organization of Women, "Statement of Purpose," 196610. Kathie Sarachild, "A Program for Feminist 'Consciousness Raising'," 1968 11. Margaret Cerullo, "Hidden History: An Illegal Abortion," 196812. National Organization for Women, "Why Feminists Want Child Care," 196913. Alice de Rivera, "On De-Segregating Stuyvesant High School," 196914. The Feminists, "Women: Do You Know the Facts about Marriage?," 1969 15. Gainesville Women's Liberation, "What Men Can Do for Women's Liberation," 197016. Young Lords Party, "Position Paper on Women," 1970 17. Pat Mainardi, "The Politics of Housework," 1970 18. A Women's Health Collective, "The Male-Feasance of Health," 197019. Susan Griffin, "Rape Is a Form of Mass Terrorism," 197020. Radicalesbians, "The Woman-Identified Woman," 197021. First National Chicana Conference, "Workshop Resolutions," 197122. Johnnie Tillmon, "Welfare is a Women's Issue," 197223. Chicago Women's Liberation Union, "Socialist Feminism: A Strategy for the Women's Movement," 197224. Phyllis Schlafly, "What's Wrong with 'Equal Rights' for Women?," 19...
