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Author Davis, Flora.

Title Moving the mountain : the women's movement in America since 1960 / Flora Davis.

Imprint New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991.

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  305.42 DAVIS    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  396 D29    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42 D261M    Check Shelf
Description 604 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 574-581) and index.
Contents 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 -- 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.
Summary An in-depth history of the women's movement from the 1960s to the early 1990s.
Subject Feminism -- United States -- History.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
Women -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01176947
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Vrouwenbeweging.
Feminismus (DE-588)4222126-2
Frauenbewegung (DE-588)4071428-7
United States (DE-588)4078704-7
Geschichte (1960-1990)
United States.
Vrouwenbeweging.
Indexed Term Feminism History
United States
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Women's movement in America since 1960
Other Form: Online version: Davis, Flora. Moving the mountain. New York : Simon & Schuster, ©1991 (OCoLC)646931443
ISBN 0671602071
9780671602079
067179292X
9780671792923
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