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2 - The “Fourth World” Is Born

Intramovement Experience, Oppositional Political Communities, and the Emergence of the White Women's Liberation Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2012

Benita Roth
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State University of New York, Binghamton
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[T]he movement has failed to create and even more to accept a radical analysis of the problems of women. It is for this purpose among others that radical women all over the country are forming groups for the discussion and implementation of women's liberation. Our discussions have led us to the beginning of both theory and perspectives for action.

Anne Bernstein et al. 1968

Introduction: The Movement Level

In 1970, Caltha Mellor and Judy Miller took a tour of radical women's groups throughout the United States, and wrote that

[o]ne of the most impressive women's groups that we visited was in a city where many of the women had been in the movement before and already thought of radical politics as their priority. … [T]here appeared to be no other strong movement organization so it was relatively easy for these women to take the step of making the women's liberation movement their only movement activity. Usually, though, making one thing a priority means giving up other things[;] to make the women's movement a priority means giving up other movement activities. In many ways giving up their movement activities is a lot more complicated than giving up major amounts of time in the home, at school or on the job. Women radicals have gotten a lot of support from the movement and it means a lot to them.

(1970:79)
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Separate Roads to Feminism
Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave
, pp. 47 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2003

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  • The “Fourth World” Is Born
  • Benita Roth, State University of New York, Binghamton
  • Book: Separate Roads to Feminism
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815201.004
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  • Benita Roth, State University of New York, Binghamton
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  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815201.004
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  • The “Fourth World” Is Born
  • Benita Roth, State University of New York, Binghamton
  • Book: Separate Roads to Feminism
  • Online publication: 05 June 2012
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511815201.004
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