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Separate roads to feminism : Black, Chicana, and White feminist movements in America's second wave
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Traces the development of white women's liberation, black feminism and Chicana feminism in the 1960s and 1970s.
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- Creator
- Benita Roth
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- Language
- English
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 271 pages ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521822602, 0511815204, 9780511815201, 0521822602, 0521529727, 9780521529723
- OCLC
- ocn817930434, ocm51899009
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-259) and index.
- Introduction: The emergence and development of racial/ethnic feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s -- Second-Wave feminism(s) -- The whitewashing of the Second Wave -- Feminist movements and intersectionality: recasting the Second Wave -- Feminist emergences, intersectionality, and social movement theory -- Methodological considerations / the plan of the book
- 1. To whom do you refer? Structure and the situated feminist -- Structure in accounts of feminist emergence -- How much is enough? The relatively deprived as challengers -- Inequality and the positing of a postwar transracial / ethnic middle class -- to whom do you compare? The salience of race/ethnicity plus class -- Conclusion: structure, awareness, and the background to the making of organizational distinct racial/ethnic feminism
- 2. The "Fourth World" is born : intramovement experience, oppositional political communities, and the emergence of the White women's liberation movement -- Introduction: the movement level -- Dynamics of facilitation and constraint -- Redefining liberation -- The debate over separation and autonomy -- New Left hostility to a new Feminist Movement -- Feminist responses to hostility: a new audience for organizing -- Organizing by women's liberationists: creating an autonomous movement -- Conclusion: reforming a community versus forming one
- 3. The Vanguard Center : intramovement experience and the emergence of black feminism ---Introduction: Black feminism as the "Vanguard Center" -- Where were the Black feminists? Looking in the wrong places -- Black women and changes in the Civil Rights Movement -- Black feminists respond: early organizations -- The Black Woman, Black liberation, and middle-class style -- Responses to the White women's liberation -- Black feminist organizing within/outside the Black Movement: questions of autonomy -- Conclusion: the influence of the Vanguard Center
- 4. "We called ourselves 'Feministas'" : intramovement experience and the emergence of Chicana Feminism -- Introduction: "Feministas," not "Feminists" -- Chicanas in the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s -- Early organizing by Chicana Feminists -- The 1971 Houston Conferencia de Mujeres por la Raza/First national Chicana Conference -- Challenging the machismo in Chicanismo, and other Chicana feminist concerns -- Chicana feminist organizations in the 1970s and the problem of backlash -- Counterarguments: the historical Chicana feminist and the need to remake the political family -- Chicana feminism's relationship with White women's liberation: sympathies versus Sisterhood -- Fitting into the struggle: Chicana feminist organizing through the 1970s -- Conclusion: organizationally distinct Chicana feminism in the Second Wave
- 5. Organizing one's own : the competitive social movement sector and the rise of organizationally distinct feminist movements -- Introduction: the intermovement level and feminist emergences -- The competitive social movement sector -- The social movement economy and the feminist threat -- White women's liberation and universal sisterhood -- "Either / or" from everywhere: African American and Chicana feminist responses -- Organizing one's own: an ethos and its origins -- Conclusion: the legacy of intermovement politics and possibilities for feminist organizing -- Conclusion: feminists on their own and for their own: revisiting and "re-visioning" Second-Wave feminisms -- Second-Wave feminisms, plural -- Second-Wave feminisms and theoretical considerations -- Bridging divisions: the legacy of Second-Wave feminisms and coalition making -- Last words -- Appendix: The interviews / Living after the Second Wave
Subjects
- Second-wave feminism -- United States.
- African American women -- History -- 20th century.
- Hispanic American women -- History -- 20th century.
- Women, White -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- White feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Feminism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.