In the tenth anniversary edition of this award-winning work, Patricia Hill Collins expands the basic arguments of the first edition by adding several important new themes.

bell hooks writes about the meaning of feminist consciousness in daily life and about self-recovery, about overcoming white and male supremacy, and about intimate relationships, exploring the point where the public and private meet.

" This history--the story of women who first claimed the name feminists--builds an essential bridge between the presuffrage period and today.

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.

From the pioneering work of abolitionist Maria Miller Stewart and anti-lynching crusader Ida Wells-Barnett to the writings of contemporary feminist critics Michele Wallace and bell hooks, black women have been writing about the multiple ...

Spanning the first fifty years of the nation's history, Revolutionary Backlash uncovers women's forgotten role in early American politics and explores an alternative explanation for the emergence of the first women's rights movement.

In this narrative, Rosen chronicles the history of the American women's movement from its beginnings in the 1960s to the present.

This book explores the decisive roles played by social democratic activists, religious dissidents, women, merchants, radical preachers, artisans, urban workers, peasants, and ethnic groups including the Azeris, Armenians, and Gilanis.

A New York Times bestseller for more than four months, Backlash is Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Susan Faludi's eye-opening, meticulously documented account of the growing and effective anti-feminist backlash in America during the last 10 ...

Betty Friedan argues that once past the initial stages of describing and working against politcal and economic injustices, the women's movement should focus on working with men to remake private and public tasks and attitudes.