Feminism Unfinished

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FEMINISM UNFINISHED A SHORT, SURPRISING HISTORY OF AMERICAN WOMEN’S MOVEMENTS Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Ast ...

To the feminists of the future ...

CONTENTS Preface Prologue 1 MORE THAN SEX EQUALITY: FEMINISM AFTER SUFFRAGE by Dorothy Sue Cobble 2 THE WOMEN’S L ...

Afterword Selected Sources Acknowledgments Index ...

PREFACE Feminism Unfinished provides the first history of the American women’s movement over the approximately ...

PROLOGUE The history of feminism is important not just to feminists and not just to women. The women’s movem ...

the world has changed, so have the needs and aspirations of women. In the 1920s, as this book reveals, fem ...

apolitical, who transformed themselves into confident, resourceful leaders and who then joined with others to change ...

periods of substantial losses for women and moments in which gains once thought secure were reversed. For exampl ...

and freedom—of a better society—has usually been deeply satisfying. This aspect of women’s movements has been wi ...

Detroit Woolworth waitresses and retail clerks occupy their store in February 1937. Library of Congress. ...

1 MORE THAN SEX EQUALITY FEMINISM AFTER SUFFRAGE Dorothy Sue Cobble Twenty-three-year-old labor organizer Myra Wol ...

Bunnies would “bite back” and challenge Hugh Hefner’s Playboy philosophy that “women should be obscene and n ...

injustices, they insisted, could the problems of the majority, men as well as women, be solved. Social just ...

father and where she met her husband. Davis had a strong anti-authoritarian streak and a habit of standing up ...

Addie Wyatt and other UPWA delegates to the 1957 NAACP convention pose with Herbert Hill, NAACP labo ...

objected to the wording of the proposed amendment. They met repeatedly with NWP leaders in 1921 and 1922, ...

1960s and beyond. The NWP’s willingness to cooperate with such allies only confirmed the beliefs of social j ...

A Jewish Lithuanian immigrant, Newman worked as a child in the garment sweatshops of New York’s East Side a ...