Moving the Mountain: The Women's Movement in America Since 1960Moving the Mountain tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved "half a revolution" between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book, the most complete history of the women's movement to date, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the prejudices and unspoken rules governing a woman's place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle, Moving the Mountain conveys the excitement, the frustration, and the creative chaos of feminism's Second Wave. A new afterword assesses the movement's progress in the 1990s and prospects for the new century. |
Contents
The Opening Salvos | 15 |
The Resurgence of Liberal Feminism | 26 |
The Founding of NOW | 49 |
The Birth of Womens Liberation | 69 |
Experiments in Radical Equality | 94 |
The Media and the Movement | 106 |
Congress Passes the ERA | 121 |
Turning Points | 137 |
Equal Pay and the Pauperization of Women | 332 |
Diversity From the Melting Pot to the Salad Bowl | 356 |
Why the ERA Lost | 385 |
The Eclipse of the Gender Gap | 415 |
The New Right and the War on Feminism | 433 |
The Unending Struggle over Abortion | 453 |
The Womens Movement in the 1980s | 471 |
The Future of Feminism The 1990s and Beyond | 491 |
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Page 4 - So too the average SNCC worker finds it difficult to discuss the woman problem because of the assumption of male superiority. Assumptions of male superiority are as widespread and deep rooted and every much as crippling to the woman as the assumptions of white supremacy are to the Negro.