Degrees of Equality: The American Association of University Women and the Challenge of Twentieth-Century Feminism (Critical Perspectives On The P) - Hardcover

Levine, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1566393264 ISBN 13: 9781566393263

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1995

Synopsis

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, Susan Levine provides a new perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream organizations. In so doing, she explores the problems that women confront and the strategies they have developed to achieve equal rights.
By examining the experience of groups like AAUW, Levine suggests that feminism was not so much "reborn" in the 1970s as it was adopted by a rapidly growing constituency of college educated women demanding the realization of their goals.

About this title

From the Publisher

The history of one of the nation's most influential voices for equality

From the Inside Flap

"This important book is a vital contribution to the growing body of scholarship which is changing our understanding of twentieth-century feminism. From its formation in 1881 as the Association of Collegiate Alumnae to this moment the AAUW has been major force in the American women's movement. As the world has changed, so has it. Susan Levine's book is must reading for scholars in women's history and in organizational theory."
—Anne Firor Scott, W.K. Boyd Professor of History Emeirta, Duke University

Edition details

• Publisher: Temple University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1566393264
• ISBN 13: 9781566393263
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 353