Personal Politics: The Roots of Women's Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement & the New Left / Edition 1

by Sara Evans

Overview

The women most crucial to the feminist movement that emerged in the 1960's arrived at their commitment and consciousness in response to the unexpected and often shattering experience of having their work minimized, even disregarded, by the men they considered to be their colleagues and fellow crusaders in the civil rights and radical New Left movements. On the basis of years of research, interviews with dozens of the central figures, and her own personal experience, Evans explores how the political stance of these women was catalyzed and shaped by their sharp disillusionment at a time when their skills as political activists were newly and highly developed, enabling them to join forces to support their own cause.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780394742281
Publisher:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date:	01/12/1980
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Sara Evans is a Distinguished McKnight University Professor of History at the University of Minnesota, where she has taught women’s history since 1976. The author of several books including Born for Liberty and Personal Politics, she lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. In 2004 she was awarded a Regents' Professorship by the University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
1	Prologue: Cracks in the Mold	3
2	Southern White Women in a Southern Black Movement	24
3	Going South	60
4	Black Power-Catalyst for Feminism	83
5	A Reassertion of the Personal	102
6	Let the People Decide	126
7	The Failure of Success-Women in the Movement	156
8	The Dam Breaks	193
9	Personal Politics	212
	Appendix	233
	SNCC Position Paper (Women in the Movement) Sex and Caste
	"We Started from Different Ends of the Spectrum" Liberation of Women
	Notes	243
	Selected Bibliography	257
	Index	269

Editorial Reviews

"The book's place among the histories of american women should be secure. By its very scholarship it accords not only the women's movement but the movements from which it sprang a good measure of the historical dignity their complexity deserves."

— Elinor Langer, The New York Times Book Review

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