| Verfasst von: | Turk, Katherine [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | The women of NOW |
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| Titelzusatz: | how feminists built an organization that transformed America |
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| Verf.angabe: | Katherine Turk |
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Verlagsort: | New York |
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| Verlag: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
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| Jahr: | 2023 |
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| Umfang: | 434 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Fussnoten: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-374-60153-9 |
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| Abstract: | "The story of the National Organization for Women-its structures, trials, and revolutionary mission-told through the work of three extraordinary, little-known members"-- |
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| | The history of NOW-its organization, trials, and revolutionary mission-told through the work of three members. In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite all women and fight for their rights. Alternately skeptical and energized, they debated the idea late into the night. In less than twenty-four hours, the National Organization for Women was born. In The Women of NOW, the historian Katherine Turk chronicles the growth and enduring influence of this foundational group through three lesser-known members who became leaders: Aileen Hernandez, a federal official of Jamaican American heritage; Mary Jean Collins, a working-class union organizer and Chicago Catholic; and Patricia Hill Burnett, a Michigan Republican, artist, and former beauty queen. From its bold inception through the tumultuous training ground of the 1970s, NOW's feminism flooded the nation, permanently shifted American culture and politics, and clashed with conservative forces, presaging our fractured national landscape. These women built an organization that was radical in its time but flexible and expansive enough to become a mainstream fixture. This is the story of how they built it-and built it to last. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white images |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/4B56696D677C7C39363038353139327C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2 |
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| | Inhaltsverzeichnis: http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780374601539.pdf |
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| Schlagwörter: | (k)National Organization for Women / (g)USA / (s)Frauenbewegung / (z)Geschichte 1939- / (s)Feminismus |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| RVK-Notation: | NQ 8340 |
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| | NW 8100 |
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| Sach-SW: | 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000 |
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| | Amerikanische Geschichte |
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| | Feminism & feminist theory |
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| | Feminismus und feministische Theorie |
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| | HISTORY / Social History |
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| | HISTORY / United States / 20th Century |
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| | History of the Americas |
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| | SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory |
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| | Social & cultural history |
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| | Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte |
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| Geograph. SW: | USA |
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| | Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA |
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| Zeit-SW: | 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.) |
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| | 20th century |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1847525628 |
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