Legacy of Second-Wave Feminism in American Politics

Angie Maxwell is the Director of the Diane Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, USA. Her research focuses on identity politics. Todd Shields is Professor of Political Science and Dean of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Arkansas, USA. His research focuses on campaigns, elections, and political psychology.

• 1. Introduction: Toward a New Understanding of Second-Wave Feminism.- 2. Generations Later, Retelling the Story.- 3. Feminism, Antifeminism, and the Rise of a New Southern Strategy in the 1970s.- 4. “No More Silence!”: Feminist Activism and Religion in the Second Wave.- 5. Feminist Economics: Second Wave, Tidal Wave, or Barely a Ripple?.- 6. The Gender Gap as a Tool for Women’s Political Empowerment: The Formative Years, 1980–84.- 7. Latina Mobilization: A Strategy for Increasing the Political Participation of Latino Families.- 8. Black Women Lawmakers and Second-Wave Feminism: An Intersectional Analysis on Generational Cohorts within Southern State Legislatures from 1990 to 2014.- 9. Not in Conflict, But in Coalition: Imagining Lesbians at the Center of the Second Wave.- 10. Conclusion: Assessing Second-Wave Historiography.