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Revolutionizing Expectations Women 039 s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980【電子書籍】 Melissa Estes BlairUnshaved Resistance and Revolution in Women 039 s Body Hair Politics【電子書籍】 Breanne FahsRevolutionizing Expectations: Women 039 s Organizations, Feminism, and American Politics, 1965-1980 REVOLUTIONIZING EXPECTATIONS Melissa Estes Blair
 

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  • <p>In the 1970s the women’s movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the United States. Millions of women participated in a movement that fundamentally altered the country’s ideas about how women could and should contribute to American society. <em>Revolutionizing Expectations</em> tells the story of some of those women, many of whom took part in the movement in unexpected ways. By looking at feminist activism in Durham, Denver, and Indianapolis, Melissa Estes Blair uncovers not only the work of local NOW chapters but also the feminist activism of Leagues of Women Voters and of women’s religious groups in those pivotal cities.</p> <p>Through her exploration of how women’s organizations that were not explicitly feminist became channels for feminism, Blair expands our understanding of who feminists were and what feminist action looked like during the high tide of the women’s movement. Revolutionizing Expectations looks beyond feminism’s intellectu...
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  • <p>Body hair, especially on women, provokes, disrupts, and, at times, offends. It is tangled up with culture itselfーin art, families, workplaces, relationships, sex, the beauty industry, governments, and capitalism. From Chinese activists challenging the Communist Party, to students in Arizona rejecting their family and workplace ideas about grooming, to high-art feminist photographers boldly featuring hairy women, Fahs deftly explores the volatile and ever-changing landscape of women's body hair politics. She showcases an underground movement of artists, zine-makers, rebels, and activists who have used women's visible body hair as a declaration of freedom from patriarchal norms.</p> <p>Fahs presents body hair not just as a personal grooming choice but as a connection to broader cultural stories about women's reproductive rights, feminist battlegrounds about autonomy, neoliberal intrusions into beauty regimens, and even global tensions around women's place in society. Ultimat...
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  • REVOLUTIONIZING EXPECTATIONS Melissa Estes Blair UNIV OF GEORGIA PR2014 Paperback English ISBN:9780820347134 洋書 Social Science(社会科学) History
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