feminism and, xiii, 1–4, 5, 6–9, 12, 16–26, 27, 28, 32–40, 43–49, 53, 61–64, 69, 82, 96–97, 108, 110,
127–28, 164, 191, 192
legislation on, 16–17, 34–35
media coverage of, 1–2, 7
organization of, 7–9, 18–19, 44, 191
recognition of, 2, 35
strikes by, xxii, 1–2, 17, 68 , 96–97
wage demands of, 1–2
see also specific organizations
“Ladies, The” (Kipling), 62–63
Ladies’ Home Journal, 73–74, 94, 179–80
“lady blogger” movement, 175, 184
laissez-faire capitalism, 12
Latifah, Queen, 180
Latinas, 75–77, 95–98, 114–15, 166, 182, 191
laundry workers, 72
“lavender menace,” 91
lawyers, xv, 51, 109, 168
leadership, xvi, 4, 9–10, 18–23, 75–79, 96, 107–8, 155–56, 165, 176, 190, 192, 214, 218
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sandberg), 197–200
Legal Defense and Education Fund (NOW), 109
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT), 140, 164–65, 190, 218
lesbians, 14–15, 71, 86–87, 88, 91–92, 100, 110, 118, 140, 142, 155, 157, 164–65, 164 , 181, 187, 190,
196, 211, 217, 218, 228
less developed countries, xiv
Letters from Mississippi (Sutherland), 76
Leventhal, Mel, 153
Lewis, Tarika, 94–95
liberalism, 35, 59–60, 90, 92, 148, 157
Life, 7
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (2009), 217–18
Limbaugh, Rush, 215–16
lipstick, 184
Liss, Shannon, 155
literacy tests, 58
literature, 135–36, 138–39
living standards, 10
Lloyd, Rachel, 191
local laws, 124
Los Angeles, 114–15
Los Coyotes Reservation, 105
Love Canal, 97
Lubbock, Tex., 159
Lutherans, 133
lynching, 43–44
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