The Womens Movement And The Politics Of Change At A Womens College

Author : David Andrew Greene
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415948326
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College written by David Andrew Greene and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David A. Greene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134000251
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Movement and the Politics of Change at a Women's College written by David A. Greene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study analyzes how Jill Ker Conway, first woman president of Smith College, implemented programmatic initiatives and changes to Smith's institutional culture that fit with her vision for higher education.

Author : Louise A. Tilly
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 1610445341
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women, Politics and Change written by Louise A. Tilly and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 1990-06-21 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women, Politics, and Change, a compendium of twenty-three original essays by social historians, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and anthropologists, examines the political history of American women over the past one hundred years. Taking a broad view of politics, the contributors address voluntarism and collective action, women's entry into party politics through suffrage and temperance groups, the role of nonpartisan organizations and pressure politics, and the politicization of gender. Each chapter provides a telling example of how American women have behaved politically throughout the twentieth century, both in the two great waves of feminist activism and in less highly mobilized periods. "The essays are unusually well integrated, not only through the introductory material but through a similarity of form and extensive cross-references among them....in raising central questions about the forms, bases, and issues of women's politics, as well as change and continuity over time, Tilly, Gurin, and the individual scholars included in this collection have provided us with a survey of the latest research and an agenda for the future." —Contemporary Sociology "This book is a necessary addition to the scholar's bookshelf, and the student's curriculum." —Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, professor of sociology, City University of New York Graduate Center

Author : Betty Friedan
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780141192055
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Feminine Mystique written by Betty Friedan and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Betty Friedan produced The Feminine Mystique in 1963, she could not have realized how the discovery and debate of her contemporaries' general malaise would shake up society. Victims of a false belief system, these women were following strict social convention by loyally conforming to the pretty image of the magazines, and found themselves forced to seek meaning in their lives only through a family and a home. Friedan's controversial book about these women - and every woman - would ultimately set Second Wave feminism in motion and begin the battle for equality. This groundbreaking and life-changing work remains just as powerful, important and true as it was forty-five years ago, and is essential reading both as a historical document and as a study of women living in a man's world. 'One of the most influential nonfiction books of the twentieth century.' New York Times 'Feminism ...... began with the work of a single person: Friedan.' Nicholas Lemann With a new Introduction by Lionel Shriver

Author : Krista Jenkins
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439909296
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers, Daughters, and Political Socialization written by Krista Jenkins and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a unique data set comparing mothers and daughters who attended Douglass College—the women's college of Rutgers University—twenty-five years apart, Krista Jenkins perceptively observes the changes in how women acquire their attitudes toward gender roles and behaviors in the post-women's movement years. Mothers, Daughters, and Political Socialization examines the role of intergenerational transmission—the maternal influences on younger women—while also looking at differences among women in attitudes and behaviors relative to gender roles that might be attributed to the nature of the times during their formative years. How do daughters coming of age in an era when the women's movement is far less visible deal with gendered expectations compared to their mothers? Do they accept the contemporary status quo their feminist mothers fought so hard to achieve? Or, do they press forward with new goals? Jenkins shows how contemporary women are socialized to accept or reject traditional gender roles that serve to undermine their equality.

Author : Florence Howe
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 1558617868
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Studies written by Florence Howe and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true stories of those bold women who espoused feminism in the world of academia and forever changed our educational system and culture. In the patriarchal halls of 1970s academe, women who spoke their minds risked their careers. Yet intrepid women—students, faculty, administrators, members of the community—persisted in collaborating on women’s studies programs. In doing so, they created a movement that altered paradigms, curricula, teaching styles, and content across disciplines. In these original essays “we hear the voices of feminists exhilarated by the opportunities and challenges of creating women’s studies programs in American colleges and universities, nurtured by the women’s movement of the 1970s,” from young graduate students and newly hired faculty to tenured professors in search of ways to improve their students’ capacities to learn, veteran academics at last witnessing change, and even a few administrators (Library Journal). In all of these programs, these “founding mothers” grappled not only with issues of gender, but with those of class, race, and sexuality in a decade infused with political unrest and questioning, when civil rights and anti-war activism, as well as feminism, shaped academic worlds.

Author : A. Ginsberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230616674
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of American Women’s Studies written by A. Ginsberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is comprised of reflections by diverse women's studies scholars, focusing on the many ways in which the field has evolved from its first introduction in the University setting to the present day.

Author : Sara Evans
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0394742281
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Personal Politics written by Sara Evans and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1980-01-12 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, interviews with dozens of the central figures, and her own personal experience, Evans explores how the political stance of these women was catalyzed and shaped by their sharp disillusionment at a time when their skills as political activists were newly and highly developed, enabling them to join forces to support their own cause.

Author : Christina Wolbrecht
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400831245
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Women's Rights written by Christina Wolbrecht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Christina Wolbrecht boldly demonstrates how the Republican and Democratic parties have helped transform, and have been transformed by, American public debate and policy on women's rights. She begins by showing the evolution of the positions of both parties on women's rights over the past five decades. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Republicans were slightly more favorable than Democrats, but by the early 1980s, the parties had polarized sharply, with Democrats supporting, and Republicans opposing, such policies as the Equal Rights Amendment and abortion rights. Wolbrecht not only traces the development of this shift in the parties' relative positions--focusing on party platforms, the words and actions of presidents and presidential candidates, and the behavior of the parties' delegations in Congress--but also seeks to explain the realignment. The author considers the politically charged developments that have contributed to a redefinition and expansion of the women's rights agenda since the 1960s--including legal changes, the emergence of the modern women's movement, and changes in patterns of employment, fertility, and marriage. Wolbrecht explores how party leaders reacted to these developments and adopted positions in ways that would help expand their party's coalition. Combined with changes in those coalitions--particularly the rise of social conservatism within the GOP and the affiliation of social movement groups with the Democratic party--the result was the polarization characterizing the parties' stances on women's rights today.

Author : Myra Marx Ferree
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439901564
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminist Organizations written by Myra Marx Ferree and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1995-02 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-six original essays look at contemporary feminist organizations.