Two pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation's revolutionary insights for today
When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women's liberation movement, and writing-powerful, personal, and prophetic-was its beating heart.
Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works-many long out-of-print and hard to find-that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi's Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life-changes too often taken for granted today-but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.
| ISBN: | 9781598536782 |
| Publication date: | 16th February 2021 |
| Author: | Alix Kates Shulman, Honor Moore |
| Publisher: | The Library of America an imprint of Library of America |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 592 pages |
| Series: | Library of America |
| Genres: |
Social and cultural history Gender studies: women and girls Gender studies, gender groups Anthologies: general |
Two pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation's revolutionary insights for today
When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women's liberation movement, and writing-powerful, personal, and prophetic-was its beating heart.
Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works-many long out-of-print and hard to find-that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi's Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life-changes too often taken for granted today-but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.
Women's Liberation! features in the following genres: Social and cultural history, Gender studies: women and girls, Gender studies, gender groups, Anthologies: general
Women's Liberation! is available in Hardback
Women's Liberation! was written by Alix Kates Shulman, Honor Moore and published by The Library of America an imprint of Library of America
Women's Liberation! has 592 pages
Yes it is part of Library of America series