This intriguing book enriches our understanding of the women's movement in the United States by showing how feminists captured a place for their goals on the agendas of four male-dominated liberal organizations in the 1960s and 1970s: the American Civil Liberties Union, the National Council of Churches, the Ford Foundation, and the International Union of Electrical Workers. Susan M. Hartmann examines the efforts of women and men who had few ties to the independent women's movement-and thus have been neglected in studies of second-wave feminism-but who nonetheless contributed substantially to...
This intriguing book enriches our understanding of the women's movement in the United States by showing how feminists captured a place for their goals...