Tischler Barbara Leonora
Tischler Barbara Leonora - Don't Call Us Girls Womens Activism Protest And Actions In The Vietnam War - Hardcover
Tischler Barbara Leonora - Don't Call Us Girls Womens Activism Protest And Actions In The Vietnam War - Hardcover
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Description: Don t Call Us Girls examines the importance of women's participation in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the international anti - war movement. This collective voice for peace and an end to nuclear proliferation reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the Arsenal of Democracy . When the men returned from war women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their place at home. And return home they did only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades. In the 1960s and 1970s no institution or convention was sacred many aspects of women's lives were fair game for criticism protest and change. In this no - holds - barred era women debated everything from international nuclear policies pay equity and child care for women to reproductive rights and sexual politics. They protested in the streets outside the White House in Trafalgar Square at the Arc de Triomphe on university campuses and just about anywhere else they would be heard. They were tired of the role society had cast for them and they would not rest until they saw the substantial change that seemed promising with the emergence of Second Wave Feminism in the 1970s. While we still live in a patriarchal society we have these women to thank for many of the freedoms we now enjoy. If they have taught us anything it is never to stop pushing back against the patriarchy and to rest only when we are truly equal. The final chapter of _ Don t Call Us Girls_ reminds us that there is still a lot of work to do.
Title: Don't Call Us Girls Womens Activism Protest And Actions In The Vietnam War
Author(s): Tischler Barbara Leonora
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781399066068
Pages: 224 Pages, 56 Colour Illustrations; 56 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/19/2024
Category: Gender Studies: Women
Description: Don t Call Us Girls examines the importance of women's participation in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the international anti - war movement. This collective voice for peace and an end to nuclear proliferation reached back to before the Second World War and then firmly embedded itself during the war years when women assumed such important roles in the workplace that Franklin D. Roosevelt called them the Arsenal of Democracy . When the men returned from war women were encouraged by forces as powerful as government agencies and eminent psychiatrists to return to their place at home. And return home they did only to realize that they could use the skills they practiced as housewives to begin organizing themselves into groups that would start a wave of protest action that swept through the late 1950s gathering up the Civil Rights Movement as it hurtled ever forward through the next two decades. In the 1960s and 1970s no institution or convention was sacred many aspects of women's lives were fair game for criticism protest and change. In this no - holds - barred era women debated everything from international nuclear policies pay equity and child care for women to reproductive rights and sexual politics. They protested in the streets outside the White House in Trafalgar Square at the Arc de Triomphe on university campuses and just about anywhere else they would be heard. They were tired of the role society had cast for them and they would not rest until they saw the substantial change that seemed promising with the emergence of Second Wave Feminism in the 1970s. While we still live in a patriarchal society we have these women to thank for many of the freedoms we now enjoy. If they have taught us anything it is never to stop pushing back against the patriarchy and to rest only when we are truly equal. The final chapter of _ Don t Call Us Girls_ reminds us that there is still a lot of work to do.
Title: Don't Call Us Girls Womens Activism Protest And Actions In The Vietnam War
Author(s): Tischler Barbara Leonora
Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Barcode: 9781399066068
Pages: 224 Pages, 56 Colour Illustrations; 56 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 12/19/2024
Category: Gender Studies: Women
