Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface/Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Emergence and Development of Racial/Ethnic Feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s
- 1 To Whom Do You Refer?
- 2 The “Fourth World” Is Born
- 3 The Vanguard Center
- 4 “We Called Ourselves ‘Feministas’”
- 5 Organizing One's Own
- Conclusion: Feminists on Their Own and for Their Own
- Appendix: The Interviews/Living After the Second Wave
- References
- Index
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
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables
- Preface/Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Emergence and Development of Racial/Ethnic Feminisms in the 1960s and 1970s
- 1 To Whom Do You Refer?
- 2 The “Fourth World” Is Born
- 3 The Vanguard Center
- 4 “We Called Ourselves ‘Feministas’”
- 5 Organizing One's Own
- Conclusion: Feminists on Their Own and for Their Own
- Appendix: The Interviews/Living After the Second Wave
- References
- Index
Summary
[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. 1968Introduction: 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.
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- Separate Roads to FeminismBlack, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave, pp. 47 - 75Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003