Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements

Eschewing the conventional wisdom that places the origins of the American women s movement in the nostalgic glow of the late 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the beginnings of this seminal American social movement to the 1920s, in the process creating an expanded, historical narrative that dramatically rewrites a century of American women s history. Also challenging the contemporary lean-in, trickle-down feminist philosophy and asserting that women s histories all too often depoliticize politics, labor issues, and divergent economic circumstances, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry demonstrate that the post-Suffrage women s movement focused on exploitation of women in the workplace as well as on inherent sexual rights. The authors carefully revise our wave vision of feminism, which previously suggested that there were clear breaks and sharp divisions within these media-driven waves. Showing how history books have obscured the notable activism by working-class and minority women in the past, Feminism Unfinished provides a much-needed corrective."

Author: Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, Astrid Henry
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 07/27/2015
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781631490545

About the Author
Cobble, Dorothy Sue: - Dorothy Sue Cobble lives in Princeton, New Jersey, and teaches at Rutgers University, where she is the Distinguished Professor of History and Labor Studies.Gordon, Linda: - Linda Gordon, winner of two Bancroft Prizes and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, is the author of The Second Coming of the KKK, Dorothea Lange and Impounded, and the coauthor of Feminism Unfinished. She is the Florence Kelley Professor of History at New York University and lives in New York and Madison, Wisconsin.Henry, Astrid: - Astrid Henry is the Louise R. Noun Chair of Women's Studies at Grinnell College. She lives in Grinnell, Iowa.