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;...
| Main Author: | Golin, Steve, 1939- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2022]
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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.