Rethinking American Women's Activism

Annelise Orleck is Professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Dartmouth College. She is the author of Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States (1995, 2017); Soviet Jewish Americans (2001); Storming Caesars Palace: How Black Mothers Fought Their Own War on Poverty (2005, 2023); and We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now: The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages (2018).

• Prologue: Reflecting on the Wave Metaphor and the Myth of Monolithic FeminismChapter 1: Rethinking the So-Called First Wave - An Extremely Brief History of Women's Rights Activism in the U.S. Before 1920Chapter 2: Civil Rights, Labor Feminism, and Mother Activism from 1920 through the 1940sChapter 3: Varieties of Feminism in a Conservative AgeChapter 4: Equality NOW! - Feminism and the LawChapter 5: Raising Consciousness, Venting Anger, Finding Sisterhood: "The Revolution is WHat is Happening in Every Woman's Mind"Chapter 6: Women's Movements for Redistributive and Social Justice: Other Faces of Radical FeminismChapter 7: Lesbian Lives, Lesbian Rights, Lesbian FeminismChapter 8: Anti-Feminist Backlash and Feminism Reborn: The 1970s through 2013