No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women - Hardcover

Freedman, Estelle B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 034545054X ISBN 13: 9780345450548

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 2002

Synopsis

A narrative history of feminism traces the origins and evolution of gender inequalitiy and the emergence of Western feminism, discusses a wide range of women's issues in relation to national political agendas and social welfare, and assesses modern feminist approaches to family, work, creativity, politics, and sexuality. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

"AN ASTONISHING FEAT, a comprehensive synthesis of a sprawling and often contradictory body of thought and activism."
"-San Francisco Examiner
"
"A TOUR DE FORCE . . . THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK."
-CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
University Professor
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University

AN ASTONISHING FEAT, a comprehensive synthesis of a sprawling and often contradictory body of thought and activism.
" San Francisco Examiner
"
A TOUR DE FORCE . . . THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK.
CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
University Professor
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University"

"AN ASTONISHING FEAT, a comprehensive synthesis of a sprawling and often contradictory body of thought and activism."
-San Francisco Examiner

"A TOUR DE FORCE . . . THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT BOOK."
-CATHARINE R. STIMPSON
University Professor
Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science
New York University

About the Author:

For the past twenty-five years, Estelle B. Freedman, a founder of the Program in Feminist Studies at Stanford University, has written about the history of women in the United States. Freedman is the author of two award-winning studies: Their Sisters’ Keepers: Women’s Prison Reform in America, 1830-1930 and Maternal Justice: Miriam Van Waters and the Female Reform Tradition. Freedman coauthored Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Professor Freedman lives in San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 034545054X
• ISBN 13: 9780345450548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 446