Table of Contents

Preface/Acknowledgments; Introduction: the emergence and development of feminism along racial and ethnic lines in the 1960s and 1970s; 1. To whom do you refer? structure and the situated feminist; 2. The 'fourth world' is born: intra-movement experience, oppositional political communities and the emergence of the white women's liberation movement; 3. The vanguard center: intra-movement experience and the emergence of black feminism; 4. Las Feministas: intra-movement experience and the emergence of chicana feminism; 5. Organizing one's own: the competitive social movement sector and the rise of organizationally different feminist movements; Conclusion: revisiting and 're-visioning' second-wave feminisms; Appendix: interviews and oral histories.

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The development of the era known as the 'second wave' of US feminist protest.

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'… a major contribution to the study of second-wave feminism in the United States … the rhetorical and stylistic clarity of the writing … provides a very useful and stimulating insight into how to reconcile the structural strain which prevails in American social movement theory …'. Cercles