Abstract compiled from book sleeve.
This book documents, celebrates and assesses the groundbreaking ideas and activities of women's liberation as the movement took off with such breadth and force in the late 1960s and 1970s.
The documents compiled in this collection include posters, poems, songs, cartoons, manifestoes and leaflets, ranging widely from a poster attacking the tyranny of high heels to an analysis of labor inequalities. The volume presents the dramatic high points of women's liberation, including the birth of consciousness raising, the demonstration at the Miss America contest in 1969, the first Chicana women's caucus, the speak-outs on abortion, the movements against sexual harassment, the campaign for child care, the birth of black feminism — showing the social progress that women have brought about in such areas as health, reproduction, work and family.
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