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They Didn't See Us Coming - The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties (Hardcover)
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They Didn't See Us Coming - The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties (Hardcover)
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On January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and
sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over
four million people. Popularly called 'The Women's March,' it
became the largest single-day protest in American history. The
feminism that shaped the consciousness of millions in 2017 had
distinct roots in the 1990s. In They Didn't See Us Coming,
historian Lisa Levenstein argues we have missed much of the past
quarter century of the women's movement because the conventional
wisdom is that the '90s was the moment when the movement splintered
into competing factions. But by showcasing voices and stories long
overlooked by popular culture and scholars, They Didn't See Us
Coming shows that this decade was actually a time of intense and
international coalition building. This activism centered around the
growing influence of women of color, women with disabilities, women
from the global South, and people of ranging gender expressions and
identities. Together, they built a movement from the margins.
Exclusion sparked action. Moments like the 1995 Beijing Women's
Conference, whose major players included Betty Friedan and Bella
Abzug and where Hillary Clinton famously declared, 'Women's rights
are human rights,' were also stages for less-remembered but no less
important calls to action. Wheelchair riders staged a 'crawl in'
protest when a panel on disabilities was held on the third floor of
a building with no elevator-a consciousness-raising moment that
informed much of the work around disabilities for the remainder of
the decade. Meanwhile, new tools like e-mail, listservs, and
discussion boards brought people with common purpose into instant
contact; activists working on campuses and in culture, like Riot
Grrls and Guerilla Girls, organized in ad hoc and less visible
ways, without figureheads but with clarity of purpose. All this
work reveals a thriving (but changing) women's movement. A
necessary and fresh understanding of a transformative period in the
history of American and international feminism, They Didn't See Us
Coming also offers an urgent road map for thinking about organizing
today and continuing to build on the work of these extraordinary
activists.
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