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Faces Of Feminism - An Activist's Reflections On The Women's Movement (Paperback, Revised)
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As one of the main players in the second wave of feminism, Sheila
Tobias returns to Kate Millet's central tenet, ?sexual politics,?
and argues that it can still unite progressive men and women around
a common set of goals. Providing a map of a complex terrain, Tobias
details ?generations? of issues, each more radical and therefore
harder to tackle than the ones before. She sets the story in two
contexts: feminism's own evolving strategies and America's
political landscape. Even though her passion for feminism remains,
she is not unwilling to critique the sisterhood and herself for
failing to see, for example, that not every woman would be a
feminist nor every man an enemy. In the heady first years,
feminists forgot that deeper even than gender is the
liberal/conservative divide in American politics.From the origins
of the movement through feminist theory and new scholarship on
women, Tobias traces the political history of the second wave and
its comeuppance at the hands of Phyllis Schafly's
StopERA?coincidental with the nation's careering toward the Right.
Somehow, feminism survived the 1980s, but by having to fight brush
fires throughout the Reagan-Bush presidencies, the movement lost
some of its breadth and much of its taste for the mainstream.
Because of her activism and her feeling for the period she
chronicles, Tobias is at once inside and outside the issues of
sexual preference, pornography, the draft, the Mommy Track,
comparable worth, affirmative action, reproductive rights, and the
challenges of equality versus difference.
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