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Moving the mountain : the women's movement in America since 1960
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- Summary
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An in-depth history of the women's movement from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
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- Creator
- Flora Davis
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Simon & Schuster, 1991
- ©1991
- Physical Details
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- 604 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 0671602071, 9780671602079, 067179292X, 9780671792923
- OCLC
- ocm24174171
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-581) and index.
- The opening salvos -- The resurgence of liberal feminism -- The founding of NOW -- The birth of women's liberation -- Experiments in radical equality -- The media and the movement -- Congress passes the ERA -- Turning points -- The relegalization of abortion -- Women in politics -- Changing education
- (Cont.) The women's health movement -- Lesbian feminism -- Feminists and family issues -- Violence against women -- Equal pay and the pauperization of women -- Diversity: from the melting pot to the salad bowl -- Why the ERA lost -- The eclipse of the gender gap -- The new right and the war on feminism -- The unending struggle over abortion -- The women's movement in the 1980s -- The future of feminism: the 1990s and beyond