The Women of NOW
How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, ©2023.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 434 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
"The story of the National Organization for Women-its structures, trials, and revolutionary mission-told through the work of three extraordinary, little-known members"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Prologue: You Can't Stop NOW -- We Recognized the Honest Fire -- Be What You Are, a Woman -- Women Are Going to Have to Organize -- We Have Different Problems -- Getting Paid -- The Chicago Machine vs. the Pennsylvania Railroad -- Put It on the Line Now for Equality -- You Better Be in the Throne -- Epilogue: It Was Personal, Political, Everything -- Afterword: What It Takes to Begin Again.
Subjects:
Hernandez, Aileen C.
Collins, Mary Jean, 1939-
Burnett, Patricia Hill, 1920-
National Organization for Women.
Feminism -- United States -- History.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
Hernandez, Aileen C.
Collins, Mary Jean, 1939-
Burnett, Patricia Hill, 1920-
National Organization for Women.
Feminism -- United States -- History.
Women -- Political activity -- United States -- History.
Women's rights -- United States -- History.
ISBN:
9780374601539
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Tur | Main (Downtown) | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/21/2024) |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-413) and index.