BONNIE J. MORRIS taught women's history for 22 years at both George Washington University and Georgetown, and is now a lecturer in the Gender and Women's Studies Department at UC-Berkeley. She is the award-winning author of 14 books, and a 17-year scoring reader for the AP U.S. History exam. D-M WITHERS is a writer, researcher, curator and publisher, who is currently Research Fellow at the University of Sussex. D-M's recent publications include Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission: Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage, which won the 2016 Feminist and Women's Studies Association Book Prize. Curatorial projects include Music & Liberation and Sistershow Revisited.
OPRAH.COM - Best Book to Read, March 2018
O MAGAZINE
"An overview of intersectional politics and the rise of the second
wave that reads like a punk rock zine."
BUSTLE
Bonnie J. Morris and D-M Withers take readers through a partial
history of the push for women’s rights in The Feminist Revolution:
Second Wave Feminism and the Struggle for Women’s Liberation. The
book picks up in the 1960s and highlights key milestones, figures,
events, and more. It's the perfect Women's History Month read.
KIRKUS REVIEWS, STARRED REVIEW
Richly illustrated, engagingly written history of second-wave
feminism and successor movements from the 1960s to the present.
[...] Essential for students of women's rights and popular
political movements in the modern era and an inspiration for future
actions.
BOOKLIST
This collection of essays, firsthand accounts, photos, and posters
is equal parts highly readable prose and collector’s item. Morris,
a women’s-studies professor, and Withers, a cultural theorist, have
gathered critical components of the history of women’s resistance
and presented them here for careful consumption. The language of
the text is extremely informative and well researched. The authors
are clear from the beginning that theirs is the narrative of the
women’s-rights movement as it has been experienced in the U.S. and
the UK, to avoid alienating other global initiatives. The images
and media included range from campaign buttons to festival posters
to inspirational artwork, all of which strengthen the power of the
corresponding text. The book is divided into sections, the topics
of which range from workplace equity to health care to sexuality to
music. The authors stress the importance of an intersectional
movement and urge readers to reach beyond their own biases as women
or allies. Their book is a love letter to all the radical fighters
who have come before.
LIBRARY JOURNAL
Much like a museum exhibition, this collection uses accessible text
and rich visual materials that invite readers to explore in a
nonlinear fashion. It will appeal to both those deeply familiar
with the topic as well as beginners of this influential moment in
feminist history.
CHOICE
Morris (gender and women's studies, Berkeley) and Withers (fellow,
Univ. of Sussex, UK) provide a thematic history of the women’s
movement in a text that is part visual anthology and part textbook.
Despite largely focusing on feminist manifestations in the US and
Britain, the authors take pains to incorporate international
sources and events, most significantly through their inclusion of
an array of visual sources—such as stamps, posters, flyers, and
buttons—from countries including South Africa, Russia, China,
Australia, Greece, and Belgium. The authors begin by discussing the
movement and how it was mobilized, the movement’s political and
ideological commitments, and feminism’s strong ties to the Civil
Rights Movement and activism by women-of-color. Next, the authors
tackle women’s reclamation of the physical and mental treatment of
the body, sexuality and lesbian feminism, culture and the
workplace, publishing and media, music and the arts, and the
antiwar and antinuclear proliferation debates. They close with a
discussion of the radicalization and fragmentation of the movement
and the implications for the education of the next generation of
feminists. Including a foreword by Roxane Gay, this text provides
an excellent and engaging introduction to the feminist movement.
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