![]() ![]() To this end, Dicker presents a concise, simply worded history of American women's movements, divided into three historical and ideological stages, First Wave, Second Wave, and Third Wave Feminism, each of which is treated in a separate chapter. ![]() ![]() ![]() I hope reading this brief history.has a similar effect on you" (p.ix). It should work just as well, though, for any woman of any age who has missed this essential take on our country's history: "When they discover the inequalities women faced in the past, students can't help calling themselves feminists. The author identifies herself as a "latecomer to feminism" (p.vii), and her book is meant to serve as an introduction to the subject designed to prevent such a late arrival for its younger audience. In her relatively short text, Rory Dicker targets this demographic with her explanation and clarification of the history of women's rights and women's movements in the United States. $12.95, ISBN 978-1-58005-234-4.įor the girls and women, myself included, who were born after the height of feminist political success in the 1960s and 1970s and the cultural backlash against those gains in the 1980s, the complicated cultural assumptions and norms produced by both movements seem as distant as Cold War standoffs, and yet their consequences shape our perceptions of self and our expectations and goals. ![]()
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