Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970

Contents

Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Introduction 1 1. Toward a Female Liberation Movement 15 2. The “Borning” Movement: “The idea of doing something about it” 34 3. “Something had to be there already” 56 4. The Influence of Simone de Beauvoir 73 5. Next Steps to Women’s Liberation 83 6. The Influence of Black Power on the Rise of Women’s Liberation 100 7. “After that paper, there would be no turning back” 126 8. Support for Women’s Liberation on the Left, New and Old 145 9. Making the Women’s Liberation Movement 173 10. The Movement Goes Nationwide: 1968–1970 193 11. The Movement Is Established: 1970 217 Epilogue 237 Notes 245 Selected Bibliography 289 Index 305 ...