Controversy and Coalition
The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change
3rd Edition
Published on 5. December 2016
Book
Hardback
308 pages
978-1-138-17633-1 (ISBN)
Description
Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the important developments of the recent women's movement. This edition includes a new introduction by the authors that covers the rise of global feminism.
Reviews / Votes
"It is wonderful news to have this classic text made available for a new generation of scholars, teachers and most important of all, contemporary undergraduates who were born after the reemergence of modern feminism in the US in the 1970s. Highly recommended for classroom use." -- Carol Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience: TheStruggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade"[A] modern classic.a valuable resource for scholars, students and activists. Highly recommended!" -- Steven M. Buechler, author of The Transformation of the WomanSuffrage Movement
"Controversy and Coalition is a highly readable, intellectually stimulating account of the US women's movement." -- Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Gender,Family and Social Movements
"Controversy and Coalition has long served as the classic text on the American women's movement." -- Leila J. Rupp, author of Worlds of Women: The Making of an InternationalWomen's Movement
"The best analysis of the recent American women's movement." -- Linda Gordon
"A superb text. Controversy and Coalition frames the fundamentals of feminist politics in the US in highly readable prose without sacrificing either subtlety or complexity. With the new introduction situating the American feminist movement internationally, this third edition is far and away the best introduction in print to the American women's movement." -- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, author of Faithful and Fearless: MovingFeminist Protest Inside the Church and Military
More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Laminated cover
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
582 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-138-17633-1 (9781138176331)
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Additional editions
Myra Marx Ferree | Beth Hess
Controversy and Coalition
The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change
E-Book
05/2002
3rd Edition
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Myra Marx Ferree | Beth Hess
Controversy and Coalition
The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change
E-Book
05/2002
3rd Edition
Routledge
€69.99
Available for download
Myra Marx Ferree | Beth Hess
Controversy and Coalition
The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change
Book
08/2000
3rd Edition
Routledge
€81.87
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Persons
Myra Marx Ferree is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. She is the series editor for Routledge's Perspectives onGender series. Beth Hess is Professor of Sociology at County College of Morris in New Jersey.
Content
Introduction 1. Setting the Stage 2. Ideas, Ideals, and Ideology 3. Reemergence of a Feminist Movement, 1963-72 4. Dilemmas of Growth: The Promise of Diversity 5. Feminist Organizations in Transition, 1973-82 6. Interest Group Politics: Triumphs and Tensions, 1973-82 7. Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Defending Gains, 1983-92 8. Looking Toward the New Millennium Chronology Bibligraphy Index