Freedom for Women
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Freedom for Women

Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970

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eBook - ePub

Freedom for Women

Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970

About this book

In this richly detailed firsthand history of the contemporary Women's Liberation Movement (WLM), scholar-activist Carol Giardina argues against the prevalent belief that the movement grew out of frustrations over the male chauvinism experienced by WLM founders active in the Black Freedom Movement and the New Left. Instead, she contends, it was the ideas, resources, and skills that women gained in these movements that were the new and necessary catalysts for forging the WLM in the 1960s.

Giardina uses a focused study of the WLM in Florida to tap into the common theory and history shared by a relatively small band of Women's Liberation founders across the country. Drawing on a wealth of interviews, autobiographical essays, organizational records, and published writings, Freedom for Women brings to light information that has been previously ignored in other secondary accounts about the leadership of African American women in the movement. It also explores activists' roots in other movements on the left. Comprehensive, serendipitous, and carefully formulated, Giardina's work is a vivid portrait of the people and events that shaped radical feminism.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication Page
  5. Contents
  6. List of Illustrations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. Introduction
  10. 1. Toward a Female Liberation Movement
  11. 2. The “Borning” Movement: “The Idea of Doing Something about It”
  12. 3. “Something had to be there Already”
  13. 4. The Influence of Simone de Beauvoir
  14. 5. Next Steps to Women's Liberation
  15. 6. The Influence of Black Power on the Rise of Women's Liberation
  16. 7. “After that Paper, there Would be no Turning Back”
  17. 8. Support for Women's Liberation on the Left, New and Old
  18. 9. Making the Women's Liberation Movement
  19. 10. The Movement Goes Nationwide: 1968–1970
  20. 11. The Movement is Established: 1970
  21. Epilogue
  22. Notes
  23. Selected Bibliography
  24. Index
  25. About the Author