Gender Politics: From Consciousness to Mass Politics

By Ethel Klein

Book Overview

With dramatic suddenness, the feminist movement emerged on the social scene in the late 1960s, and by 1980 it was a political force to be reckoned with. This ground-breaking study combs a wealth of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067434197X
• ISBN13: 9780674341975
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.3"

Customer Reviews

Superb

This book is a classic text in the history of women in politics, feminism, women's rights, and sex roles in the USA in the twentieth century. As Ms. Klein herself writes, the book began when she wondered what leads to the emergence of social movements. The study broke new ground when first published, when prior authors had puzzled over why women chose when they did to mobilize and organize over their lot in life (during the second wave of feminism). Klein offered analysis based on the gathering of all sorts of data from census reports to public opinion surveys to offer her explanations for what "raises the consciousness" of women and mobilizes them.