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Controversy and Coalition

The New Feminist Movement Across Four Decades of Change

Myra Marx Ferree author Beth Hess author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

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Controversy and Coalition is a comprehensive and engaging overview of the American women's movement from the 1960s to the 1990s. This third edition is the only short and highly readable book on the important developments of the recent women's movement. This edition includes a new introduction by the authors that covers the rise of global feminism.

"It is wonderful news to have this classic text made available for a new generation of scholars, teachers and most important of all, contemporary undergraduates who were born after the reemergence of modern feminism in the US in the 1970s. Highly recommended for classroom use." -- Carol Joffe, author of Doctors of Conscience: TheStruggle to Provide Abortion Before and After Roe V. Wade
"[A] modern classic.a valuable resource for scholars, students and activists. Highly recommended!" -- Steven M. Buechler, author of The Transformation of the WomanSuffrage Movement
"Controversy and Coalition is a highly readable, intellectually stimulating account of the US women's movement." -- Suzanne Staggenborg, author of Gender,Family and Social Movements
"Controversy and Coalition has long served as the classic text on the American women's movement." -- Leila J. Rupp, author of Worlds of Women: The Making of an InternationalWomen's Movement
"The best analysis of the recent American women's movement." -- Linda Gordon
"A superb text. Controversy and Coalition frames the fundamentals of feminist politics in the US in highly readable prose without sacrificing either subtlety or complexity. With the new introduction situating the American feminist movement internationally, this third edition is far and away the best introduction in print to the American women's movement." -- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, author of Faithful and Fearless: MovingFeminist Protest Inside the Church and Military

ISBN: 9780415928045

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 570g

306 pages

3rd edition