The Feminist Chronicles: 1953-1993
The Feminist Chronicles, written by Toni Carabillo, Judith
Meuli, and June Bundy Csida, dramatizes the ongoing, day-by-day, year-by-year
effort of the feminist movement to improve the lives and status of
women and to empower women as equal players in world affairs.
Beginning with the work of Eleanor Roosevelt to empower women politically
and publication of the ground-breaking book, TheSecond Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir, The Chronicles tells the story of
the founding of the National Organization for Women (NOW), the largest
feminist organization in the world. It reports the diverse actions
and events of the last four decades of feminist activities.
The Feminist Chronicles shows the depth, breadth, and impact
of the feminist movement on every facet of society in the United States
in the last forty years. The book puts the movement inthe context
of the times by recording major public events that occur simultaneously
and also traces the intensifying right-wing backlash.
The Feminist Chronicles is illustrated with buttons from the
era and photographs that in many cases can be seen nowhere else but
in the scrapbooks of activists. The book also includes a section of
some of the early and key NOW documents that set the first agenda
of the current movement for women's equality.
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