Phyllis Schlafly

"Tobias objectively surveys the pitfalls & the triumphs along the way." Ms. "Were one teaching a course on American feminism from its origins in the nineteenth century to its contemporary travails, [this] would be the perfect text." San Francisco Review "An especially welcome resource for young women trying to make sense of the women's movement before becoming enmeshed in its battles." New York Times Book Review "An essential work for anyone who wants to learn, or learn more, about women's activism. An excellent, accessible work; highly recommended." Library Journal

The women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s changed the lives of a vast majority of women, especially young women, in America. This introduction to the movement provides not only a narrative overview, but also a wealth of ready-reference materials, including 13 lengthy biographical profiles of key figures, a broad selection of 15 primary source documents, a glossary of terms, and a useful annotated bibliography. The women's liberation movement was an outgrowth of earlier waves of feminism, including the women's suffrage movement that gained women the right to vote in 1920. In a succession of chronologically organized chapters, Berkeley tells the tumultuous story of the movement from its historical roots through the present.

Viewing the modern Right as more than a passing fad for state-anxious individuals, this volume treats the current US conservative movement as an important effort to rearticulate the truths taken for granted in the American liberal tradition.

This volume, the second of two companion biographical dictionaries, provides extensive entries on 31 women orators active since 1925. It covers women with distinguished political careers, such as Clare Boothe Luce, Frances Perkins, and Ann Willis Richards; women with important scientific careers, such as Rachel Carson and Helen Broinowski Caldicott; and women with religious careers, such as Dorothy Day and Pauli Murray. It includes extraordinary women, such as Helen Keller and Eleanor Roosevelt and women who have been active in the women's movement as well as those, such as Phyllis Schlafly, who have been actively anti-feminist. Each entry provides brief biographical information, focuses on an analysis of the subject's rhetoric, and concludes with information on sources.

Nancy Love introduces the reader to the history and evolution of the main categories of political ideology including socialism, fascism, anarchism, conservativism, liberalism and democracy. A new section has been added on environmentalism.

Unlike other works, America in the Sixties looks at the era from the perspective of new leftists, liberals, and conservatives, providing readers with the opportunity to see this seminal decade more fully and richly than they could before. It includes the manifestos of both the Students for a Democratic Society and the Young Americans for Freedom, the most prominent radical and conservative student groups of the time. Further, in addition to selections by such individuals as Jerry Rubin and Tom Hayden, it contains pieces by figures often associated with other times, such as Reverend Billy Graham and Ronald Reagan. Seeking to immerse readers in the decade's key issues in a balanced manner, the book covers the civil rights movement, Vietnam, the counterculture, and the women's movement and looks at some of the 1960's most memorable moments.