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The Feminist Revolution: The Struggle for Women's Liberation Hardcover – Illustrated, March 6, 2018

by Bonnie J. Morris (Author), D-M Withers (Author), Roxane Gay (Foreword)
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Explores the global history and contributions of the feminist revolution.

The Feminist Revolution offers an overview of women's struggle for equal rights in the late twentieth century. Beginning with the auspicious founding of the National Organization for Women in 1966, at a time when women across the world were mobilizing individually and collectively in the fight to assert their independence and establish their rights in society, the book traces a path through political campaigns, protests, the formation of women's publishing houses and groundbreaking magazines, and other events that shaped women's history. It examines women's determination to free themselves from definition by male culture, wanting not only to "take back the night" but also to reclaim their bodies, their minds, and their cultural identity. It demonstrates as well that the feminist revolution was enacted by women from all backgrounds, of every color, and of all ages and that it took place in the home, in workplaces, and on the streets of every major town and city. This sweeping overview of the key decades in the feminist revolution also brings together for the first time many of these women's own unpublished stories, which together offer tribute to the daring, humor, and creative spirit of its participants.
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  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    Smithsonian Books
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    March 6, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    10.1 x 0.9 x 11.2 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    1588346129
  7. ISBN-13
    978-1588346124
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"An overview of intersectional politics and the rise of the second wave that reads like a punk rock zine."

BUSTLE
Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers take readers through a partial history of the push for women’s rights in The Feminist Revolution: Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation. The book picks up in the 1960s and highlights key milestones, figures, events, and more. It's the perfect Women's History Month read.

KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED REVIEW
Richly illustrated, engagingly written history of second-wave feminism and successor movements from the 1960s to the present. [...] Essential for students of women's rights and popular political movements in the modern era and an inspiration for future actions.

BOOKLIST
This collection of essays, firsthand accounts, photos, and posters is equal parts highly readable prose and collector’s item. Morris, a women’s-studies professor, and Withers, a cultural theorist, have gathered critical components of the history of women’s resistance and presented them here for careful consumption. The language of the text is extremely informative and well researched. The authors are clear from the beginning that theirs is the narrative of the women’s-rights movement as it has been experienced in the U.S. and the UK, to avoid alienating other global initiatives. The images and media included range from campaign buttons to festival posters to inspirational artwork, all of which strengthen the power of the corresponding text. The book is divided into sections, the topics of which range from workplace equity to health care to sexuality to music. The authors stress the importance of an intersectional movement and urge readers to reach beyond their own biases as women or allies. Their book is a love letter to all the radical fighters who have come before.

LIBRARY JOURNAL
Much like a museum exhibition, this collection uses accessible text and rich visual materials that invite readers to explore in a nonlinear fashion. It will appeal to both those deeply familiar with the topic as well as beginners of this influential moment in feminist history.

CHOICE
Morris (gender and women's studies, Berkeley) and Withers (fellow, Univ. of Sussex, UK) provide a thematic history of the women’s movement in a text that is part visual anthology and part textbook. Despite largely focusing on feminist manifestations in the US and Britain, the authors take pains to incorporate international sources and events, most significantly through their inclusion of an array of visual sources—such as stamps, posters, flyers, and buttons—from countries including South Africa, Russia, China, Australia, Greece, and Belgium. The authors begin by discussing the movement and how it was mobilized, the movement’s political and ideological commitments, and feminism’s strong ties to the Civil Rights Movement and activism by women-of-color. Next, the authors tackle women’s reclamation of the physical and mental treatment of the body, sexuality and lesbian feminism, culture and the workplace, publishing and media, music and the arts, and the antiwar and antinuclear proliferation debates. They close with a discussion of the radicalization and fragmentation of the movement and the implications for the education of the next generation of feminists. Including a foreword by Roxane Gay, this text provides an excellent and engaging introduction to the feminist movement.

About the Author

BONNIE J. MORRIS taught women's history for 22 years at both George Washington University and Georgetown, and is now a lecturer in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at UC-Berkeley. She is the award-winning author of 14 books, and a 17-year scoring reader for the AP U.S. History exam. D-M WITHERS is a writer, researcher, curator and publisher, who is currently Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. D-M's recent publications include Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission: Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage, which won the 2016 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize. Curatorial projects include Music & Liberation and Sistershow Revisited.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Smithsonian Books; Illustrated edition (March 6, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1588346129
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1588346124
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.17 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 10.1 x 0.9 x 11.2 inches
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I almost didn't order this advanced reading copy but once it arrived immediately changed my mind. I don't consider myself a feminist although over the years I've been called one (among many other things). The words feminist and revolution bring to mind some of the most violent protests, angry outbursts and boring memories of my youth. Things like my bra burning mother having huge screaming yelling arguments with her mostly prim and proper mother about decency and the eventual decay of society sure to come from failure to wear rib crushing playtex bra's. Or the time my mother made me sit to watch tennis, a sport I had zero interest in but was told without question that years from now I would remember seeing this history making match when Billy Jean King beat a man. For the record, my mother was right. Or the bittersweet memories of how my great grandmother dutifully bought me a huge dictionary for my 4th birthday and then grocery store encyclopedia volumes every time her little pension would permit. She would always remind me to get a career, have my own money and never be forced to depend on any man...words of wisdom from a woman who endured the hardship of marriage to a chronic alcoholic who died early and left her penniless. Even my own amazement during college when I met another female student who ran marathons - something I had been brought up to believe was impossible for all but a few highly athletic and muscular type women. My own ignorance aside, it still took many more years before I took up distance jogging for myself. I could include literally hundreds of similar examples but suffice to say, turning the pages of this book was an emotional experience.

Perhaps it is my age (past the half century mark) or perhaps it is the recognition of how very much things have changed - and how much change is still needed. This book brought back many memories and experiences, my own and that of others. The world outlook, things we take for granted these days which were nothing short of radical at the time. Situations that sadly, are still all too common. Party history, part nostalgia this is a stunningly superb book. Great conversation starter, historical perspective and personal reflection.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Primarily Valuable for Politically-Charged Images
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2018
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THE FEMINIST REVOLUTION: THE STRUGGLE FOR WOMEN’S LIBERATION is a contemporary history of feminism, commencing with the year 1966, the year that the National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded. To the extent that it’s a serious history, it merely describes what feminists and anti-feminists were doing and saying in the years from 1966 through the 1980s. The text portions are based for the most part on newspaper, magazine, and journal articles.

To my mind, this volume is a picture book, primarily valuable for the scanned, politically-charged images of protesters, advertisements for feminist events, political cartoons, newspaper stories, magazine covers, and the like. Indeed, the images overpower the accompanying text, which is set in small type and often displayed on colored backgrounds (as if no one is really expected to actually read it). The oversized, square book format also detracts from the readability of the text.

The subtitles of the chapters are generally a better guide to the topics than the actual, politicized titles (e.g., ch. 1 “‘Sisterhood is powerful’”, subtitled “How the movement mobilized”). The subtitles are as follows: (1) How the movement mobilized; (2) The struggle for liberation; (3) Civil rights and liberation; (4) Reclaiming the physical and mental treatment of women; (5) Sexuality and lesbian feminism; (6) Reinventing culture in and out of the workplace; (7) Publishing and the media; (8) Music and the arts; (9) The anti-war and anti-nuclear debate; and (10) Radicalization, fragmentation, and educating the next generation.

The history is very fragmented--for example, Ms. Magazine, which caused many 1970s women to wake up and become feminists (remember the “clicks”?) doesn’t appear until ch. 7 (page 154 out of 220-plus pages). Also, the choice of mostly politically-charged images makes the whole book seem biased and “shrill”, even though the text itself is written with a balanced, neutral tone.
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