The Politics of Women's Liberation: A Case Study of an Emerging Social Movement and Its Relation to the Policy Process - Softcover

Freeman, Jo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067930276X ISBN 13: 9780679302766

Publisher: David McKay Company Inc, 1975

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Book by Freeman, Jo

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This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs.Author Bio:Jo Freeman is an attorney, author, and political scientist. She has published five books and dozens of articles on women and politics, feminism, social movements, public policy and law, political parties, organizational theory, education, federal election law, and the national nominating conventions.Description:This book analyses the two branches of the new feminist movement of the mid-1960s through 1973 and presents a theory of social movement origins, examines internal conflicts, and assesses the role of the press in movement growth. It also explores how the movment created public policy and how policy shaped the movement."Up to now, nobody has been sure what the women's liberation movement is, we just know it is happening. Jo Freeman makes up for feminism's peculiar lact of political analysis."ancy Borman, Majority Report

Edition details

• Publisher: David McKay Company Inc
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 067930276X
• ISBN 13: 9780679302766
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 268