The American Women's Movement, 1945-2000: A Brief History with Documents (The Bedford Series in History and Culture) - Softcover

MacLean, Nancy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312448015 ISBN 13: 9780312448011

Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2008

Synopsis

With a collection of primary sources featuring the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women's history, American Women's Movement includes the voices of women of all ages, classes, and ethnicities, dispelling the misconception that the movement was solely a white, middle-class cause

About this title

About the Author:

NANCY MACLEAN Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1989 is professor of history and African American studies at Northwestern University. She studies the workings of class, gender, race, and region in twentieth-century social movements and public policy. Her first book, Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan 1994, was named a "noteworthy" book of the year by theNew York Times Book Review, and received the Rawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians, the Owsley Prize from the Southern Historical Association, and the Rosenhaupt Award from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Her most recent book, Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace 2006, received an Outstanding Book Award from the Gustavus Myers Center for the Study of Bigotry and Human Rights, the Willard Hurst Prize for best book in sociolegal history from the Law and Society Association, the Labor History Best Book Prize from the International Association of Labor History Institutions, the Richard A. Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations, and the Lillian Smith Book Award from the Southern Regional Council.

Review:

'At long last a collection that dispels the myth that feminism was a movement of white middle-class women only! Longtime activists from labour union, civil rights, and homophile movements played their part as did young women from different races, classes, and sexual preferences. Nancy MacLean conveys the diversity, dynamism, and development of the movement with an incisive introductory essay and compelling documents. Students and teachers alike will find much to consider and discuss.' - Nan Enstad, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0312448015
• ISBN 13: 9780312448011
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224