ABOUT THIS BOOK

Much of the scholarship on second-wave feminism has focused on divisions within the women's movement and its narrow conception of race and class, but the contributors to this volume remind readers that feminists in the 1960s and 1970s also formed many strong partnerships, often allying themselves with a diverse range of social justice efforts on a local grassroots level. These essays focus on coalitions and alliances in which feminists and other activists joined forces to address crucial social justice issues such as reproductive rights, the peace movement, women's health, Christianity and other religions, and neighborhood activism, as well as alliances crossing boundaries of race, class, political views, and sexual identity. The contributors bring fresh perspectives to feminist history by calling attention to how women struggled to include and represent diverse women without minimizing the difficulties of conceptualizing a singular feminism.

Contributors are Maria Bevacqua, Tamar Carroll, Marisa Chappell, Andrea Estepa, Sara M. Evans, Amy Farrell, Stephanie Gilmore, Cynthia Harrison, Elizabeth Kaminski, Wendy Kline, Premilla Nadasen, Caryn Neumann, Anne M. Valk, and Emily Zuckerman.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Stephanie Gilmore is a former assistant professor of women's studies at Dickinson College and author of Groundswell: Grassroots Feminist Activism in Postwar America.

REVIEWS

"These fascinating and vivid essays complicate and expand our view of the coalitions that were able to come together and fight for common goals. Scholars and students in women's history, women's studies, and sociology will surely find this an invaluable reference as it introduces new histories of the women's movement and second-wave feminism."--Ruth Rosen, author of The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America

“[Feminist Coalitions] does well in calling attention to the many identities of second-wave feminisms and the movement’s successful initiatives in work, health, reproductive, peace, and civil rights campaigns.”--The Journal of American History

“An important new dimension to the ongoing scholarship, revisioning the history of second-wave feminism.”--Oral History Review

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents
 ForewordSara M. Evans
 1. Thinking about Feminist Coalitions
 Stephanie Gilmore
 2. Creating a National Feminist Agenda: Coalition Building in
 the 1970s
 Cynthia Harrison
 3. Attentive to Difference: Ms. Magazine, Coalition Building,
 and Sisterhood
 Amy Farrell
 4. The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: Rethinking Women's
 Health and Second-Wave Feminism
 Wendy Kline
 5. Taking the White Gloves Off: Women Strike for Peace and "the
 Movement," 1967-73
 Andrea Estepa
 6. Enabled by the Holy Spirit: Church Women United and the
 Development of Ecumenical Christian Feminism
 Caryn E. Neumann
 7. Fighting for Abortion as a "Health Right" in Washington, D.C.
 Anne Valk
 8. Reconsidering Violence against Women: Coalition Politics in
 the Antirape Movement
 Maria Bevacqua
 9. "Welfare's a Green Problem": Cross-Race Coalitions in Welfare
 Rights Organizing
 Premilla Nadasen
 10. Unlikely Allies: Forging a Multiracial, Class-Based Women's
 Movement in 1970s Brooklyn
 Tamar Carroll
 11. The Cooperative Origins of EEOC v. Sears
 Emily Zuckerman
 12. Demanding a New Family Wage: Feminist Consensus in the 1970s
 Full Employment Campaign
 Marisa Chappell
 13. Learning from Coalitions: Intersections and New Directions in
 Activism and Scholarship
 Elizabeth Kaminski
 Acknowledgments
 Index