Women who invented the sixties Ella Baker, Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson, and Betty Friedan
"While there were many protests in the 1950s-against racial segregation, economic inequality, urban renewal, McCarthyism, and the nuclear buildup-the movements that took off in the early 1960s were qualitatively different. They were sustained, not momentary; they were national, not just local; they...
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University Press of Mississippi,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Four women
- Part 1: the fifties. Ella Baker: activists' activist ; Jane Jacobs: playful activist ; Rachel Carson: reluctant activist ; Betty Friedan: discourage activist
- Part 2: the interventions. Ella Baker and the founding of SNCC, 1960 ; The Death and Life of Great American Cities, 1961 ; Silent Spring, 1962 ; The Feminine Mystique, 1963
- Part 3: the sixties. Ella Baker, Bob Moses, and Mississippi ; Jane Jacobs and the Neighborhood Movement ; Rachel Carson and the bullies ; Baker, Friedan, and the two women's movements ; The late sixties: Jane Jacobs and Betty Friedan
- Epilogue. 1970 and beyond.
