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Remapping Second-Wave Feminism - The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997 (Paperback)
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Remapping Second-Wave Feminism - The Long Women's Rights Movement in Louisiana, 1950-1997 (Paperback)
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Scholars of second-wave feminism often center their research on
northern thought and political activity and usually overlook the
vibrant pockets of activism that existed elsewhere. In Remapping
Second-Wave Feminism, Janet Allured attempts to reshape the
national narrative by focusing on the grassroots women's movement
in the South, particularly in Louisiana. This book delves into
unexplored origins of the feminist movement. While acknowledging
the ways that the fight for African American civil rights produced
the women's liberation movement in the South-and subsequently in
the North-Allured also locates other wellsprings of the movement
that were particularly important to southern change-seekers,
especially preexisting women's organizations such as the League of
Women Voters and the YWCA. Also, for many southern feminists, being
part of a faith tradition that emphasized social justice reform is
what ultimately propelled them into working for gender equality.
Allured highlights key figures in Louisiana; divisions based on
regional, sexual, and ideological differences; access to abortion;
lawsuits that had national implications that emanated from southern
women; and the fight against sexual assault and domestic violence.
Through detailed archival and oral history research, she has forged
a new path, making this a foundational work for the field.
Remapping Second-Wave Feminism will amend how we reflexively view
feminism as a northern phenomenon, giving proper due to the
southern contribution.
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