Survival in the Doldrums: The American Women's Rights Movement, 1945 to the 1960s

by Verta A. Taylor, Leila J. Rupp, Verta Taylor

Book Overview

Survival in the Doldrums is the first book to explore the persistence of the American women's rights movement in a period generally considered devoid of feminist activism and to show the ways in which the more radical movement of the 1960s was influenced by the successes and failures of the 1950s activities.
Focusing on women who saw themselves as heirs of the suffrage movement and who were, in many cases, actual participants in that original...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195049381
• ISBN13: 9780195049381
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.6"