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Divided we stand : the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics / Marjorie J. Spruill.
Van Pelt Library HQ1421 .S683 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Women's Conference (U.S.) (1977 : Houston, Tex.).
- National Women's Conference (U.S.).
- Women social reformers--United States.
- Women social reformers.
- Women conservatives.
- Political participation.
- Feminists--Political activity.
- Feminists.
- Anti-feminism.
- United States.
- Women's rights--United States.
- Women's rights.
- Women--United States--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Women--United States--Attitudes.
- Feminism--United States.
- Feminism.
- Anti-feminism--United States.
- Feminists--Political activity--United States.
- Women conservatives--Political activity--United States.
- Women--Social conditions--United States.
- Local Subjects:
- Women's rights--United States.
- Feminists--Political activity--United States.
- Feminism--United States.
- Women--Social conditions--United States.
- Women--United States--Attitudes.
- Physical Description:
- 436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Summary:
- "Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies,"--NoveList.
- "Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (in the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to attend the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977, where Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists endorsed a platform supporting abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights. Across town, Phyllis Schlafly, Lottie Beth Hobbs, and the conservative women's movement held a massive rally to protest federally funded feminism and launch a pro-family movement. Divided We Stand explores the role social issues have played in politics by reprising the battle between feminists and their conservative challengers, leading to Democrats supporting women's rights and Republicans casting themselves as the party of family values. As the 2016 presidential election made clear, the women's rights movement and the conservative women's movement have irrevocably affected the course of modern American politics. We cannot fully understand the present without appreciating the pivotal events that transpired in Houston and immediately thereafter."--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Four days that changed the world
- The rise of the feminist establishment
- To form a more perfect union
- What's wrong with "equal rights" for women?
- An alternative to "women's lib"
- The gathering storm
- Armageddon state by state
- Out of the kitchen and into the counterrevolution
- Mama said there'd be days like this
- Crest of the second wave
- Launching the pro-family movement
- We shall go forth
- Onward Christian soldiers
- A nation divided.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-425) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781632863140
- 1632863146
- OCLC:
- 972965013
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