The Politics of Women's Liberation

A Case Study of an Emerging Social Movement and Its Relation to the Policy Process

by Jo Freeman


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 7/17/2000

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5.5x8.5
Page Count : 292
ISBN : 9780595088997

About the Book

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Jo Freeman is an attorney, author, and political scientist. She has published five books and dozens of articles on women and politics, feminism, social movements, public policy and law, political parties, organizational theory, education, federal election law, and the national nominating conventions. Description: This book analyses the two branches of the new feminist movement of the mid-1960s through 1973 and presents a theory of social movement origins, examines internal conflicts, and assesses the role of the press in movement growth. It also explores how the movment created public policy and how policy shaped the movement.

"Up to now, nobody has been sure what the women's liberation movement is, we just know it is happening. Jo Freeman makes up for feminism's peculiar lact of political analysis."

桸ancy Borman, Majority Report


About the Author

This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Jo Freeman is an attorney, author, and political scientist. She has published five books and dozens of articles on women and politics, feminism, social movements, public policy and law, political parties, organizational theory, education, federal election law, and the national nominating conventions. Description: This book analyses the two branches of the new feminist movement of the mid-1960s through 1973 and presents a theory of social movement origins, examines internal conflicts, and assesses the role of the press in movement growth. It also explores how the movment created public policy and how policy shaped the movement.

"Up to now, nobody has been sure what the women's liberation movement is, we just know it is happening. Jo Freeman makes up for feminism's peculiar lact of political analysis."

桸ancy Borman, Majority Report