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    The women of NOW : how feminists built an organization that transformed America (2023)
    New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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    ISBN: 9780374601539
    Language: English
    Pages: 434 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 305.420973
    RVK:
    NQ 8340
    RVK:
    NW 8100
    Keywords: National Organization for Women ; Geschichte 1939-2023 ; Feminismus ; Frauenbewegung ; USA ; 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- ; Féminisme / États-Unis / Histoire ; Femmes / Activité politique / États-Unis / Histoire ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General ; National Organization for Women ; Feminism ; Women / Political activity ; Women's rights ; United States ; Feminism / United States ; Women / Political activity ; Women's rights / United States ; History ; Biographies ; Biographies ; USA ; Frauenbewegung ; Feminismus ; National Organization for Women ; Geschichte 1939-2023
    Abstract: "The story of the National Organization for Women-its structures, trials, and revolutionary mission--told through the work of three extraordinary, little-known members"--
    Abstract: "In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and trying to work with a broken system, they laid out a vision for an organization to unite all women and fight for their rights. Alternately skeptical and energized, they debated the idea late into the night. In less than twenty-four hours, the National Organization for Women was born. In The Women of NOW, the historian Katherine Turk chronicles the growth and enduring influence of this foundational group through three lesser-known members who became leaders: Aileen Hernandez, a federal official of Jamaican American heritage; Mary Jean Collins, a working-class union organizer and Chicago Catholic; and Patricia Hill Burnett, a Michigan Republican, artist, and former beauty queen. From its bold inception through the tumultuous training ground of the 1970s, NOW's feminism flooded the nation, permanently shifted American culture and politics, and clashed with conservative forces, presaging our fractured national landscape. These women built an organization that was radical in its time but flexible and expansive enough to become a mainstream fixture. This is the story of how they built it--and built it to last"--
    Description / Table of 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
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
    URL: Cover  (lizenzpflichtig)
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    Equality on trial : gender and rights in the modern American workplace (2016)
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : University of Pennsylvania Press
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    ISBN: 0812248201 , 9780812248203
    Language: English
    Pages: 284 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Politics and culture in modern America
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Turk, Katherine Equality on Trial
    DDC: 344.73014133
    Keywords: United States ; Sex discrimination in employment History 20th century ; Sex discrimination against women History 20th century ; Sex discrimination in employment Law and legislation 20th century ; History ; Sex discrimination against women Law and legislation 20th century ; History ; Sex discrimination against women Law and legislation ; United States ; Discrimination in employment United States ; Sex discrimination in employment United States ; Sex role in the work environment United States ; Women Employment ; United States
    Abstract: "In 1964, as part of its landmark Civil Rights Act, Congress outlawed workplace discrimination on the basis of such personal attributes as sex, race, and religion. This provision, known as Title VII, laid a new legal foundation for women's rights at work. Though President Kennedy and other lawmakers expressed high hopes for Title VII, early attempts to enforce it were inconsistent. In the absence of a consensus definition of sex equality in the law or society, Title VII's practical meaning was far from certain. The first history to foreground Title VII's sex provision, Equality on Trial examines how the law's initial promise inspired a generation of Americans to dispatch expansive notions of sex equality. Imagining new solidarities and building a broad class politics, these workers and activists engaged Title VII to generate a pivotal battle over the terms of democracy and the role of the state in all labor relationships. But the law's ambiguity also allowed for narrow conceptions of sex equality to take hold. Conservatives found ways to bend Title VII's possible meanings to their benefit, discovering that a narrow definition of sex equality allowed businesses to comply with the law without transforming basic workplace structures or ceding power to workers. These contests to fix the meaning of sex equality ultimately laid the legal and cultural foundation for the neoliberal work regimes that enabled some women to break the glass ceiling as employers lowered the floor for everyone else. Synthesizing the histories of work, social movements, and civil rights in the postwar United States, Equality on Trial recovers the range of protagonists whose struggles forged the contemporary meanings of feminism, fairness, and labor rights"--Book jacket
    Abstract: Notions of sex equality -- Defining sex discrimination -- Class and class action -- Feminism and workplace fairness -- Reevaluating women's work -- Sex equality and the service sector -- A man's world, but only for some -- Opting out or buying in -- Illusions of sex equality
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