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Revolutionizing Expectations: Women's Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980

Revolutionizing Expectations: Women's Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980

Blair, Melissa Estes

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0820347132
ISBN13: 9780820347134
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Nov 15 2014
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.76
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

In the 1970s the women's movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the United States. Millions of women participated in a movement that fundamentally altered the country's ideas about how women could and should contribute to American society. Revolutionizing Expectations tells the story of some of those women, many of whom took part in the movement in unexpected ways. By looking at feminist activism in Durham, Denver, and Indianapolis, Melissa Estes Blair uncovers not only the work of local NOW chapters but also the feminist activism of Leagues of Women Voters and of women's religious groups in those pivotal cities.

Through her exploration of how women's organizations that were not explicitly feminist became channels for feminism, Blair expands our understanding of who feminists were and what feminist action looked like during the high tide of the women's movement. Revolutionizing Expectations looks beyond feminism's intellectual leaders and uncovers a multifaceted women's movement of white, African American, and Hispanic women from a range of political backgrounds and ages who worked together to bring about tremendous changes in their own lives and the lives of generations of women who followed them.

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