A collection of sixty-four essays covering topics related to feminism written by English and American thinkers including Susan B. Anthony, Betty Friedan, Margaret Sanger, Sojourner Truth, and Virginia Woolf.
A collection of twelve essays reveals how people from all parts of American society were affected by women's rights, including Native Americans, female reformers, school girls, feminists, and others.
perceptions of women from the 1970s through the 1990s
Gourley, Catherine
2008
Presents examples of women's representations in magazines and other media during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s and discusses changes in the ways women perceived themselves over the course of these decades.
Argues that feminism has lost the power to improve the lives and opportunities of women around the world, focusing on Islamic gender apartheid in the Islamic world and calling for a new feminism that requires independent, not group, thought.
Presents stories and articles, originally published in "blue jean magazine," in which young women discuss body image, confidence, ethnicity and racism, and other topics relevant to their lives.