e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Booklist Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
Table of Contents
More Content
More by this author
Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-
Subjects
National Women's Conference (U.S.) (1977 : Houston, Tex.)
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
Feminism -- United States.
Anti-feminism -- United States.
Feminists -- Political activity -- United States.
Women conservatives -- Political activity -- United States.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-
by title:
Divided we stand : t...
by call number:
305.40973 S771d
Search the Web
Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-
National Women's Conference (U.S.) (1977 : Houston, Tex.)
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
Feminism -- United States.
Anti-feminism -- United States.
Feminists -- Political activity -- United States.
Women conservatives -- Political activity -- United States.
MARC Display
Divided we stand : the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics / Marjorie J. Spruill.
by
Spruill, Marjorie Julian, 1951-
Bloomsbury, 2017.
Call #:
305
.40973
S771d
Subjects
National Women's Conference (U.S.) (1977 : Houston, Tex.)
Women social reformers -- United States -- Biography
Women's rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Women -- United States -- Social conditions.
Women -- United States -- Attitudes.
Feminism -- United States.
Anti-feminism -- United States.
Feminists -- Political activity -- United States.
Women conservatives -- Political activity -- United States.
ISBN:
9781632863140 (hc.)
Description:
436 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-425) and index.
Contents:
Four days that changed the world -- The rise of the feminist establishment -- To form a more perfect union -- What's wrong with "equal rights" for women? -- An alternative to "women's lib" -- The gathering storm -- Armageddon state by state -- Out of the kitchen and into the counterrevolution -- Mama said there'd be days like this -- Crest of the second wave -- Launching the pro-family movement -- We shall go forth -- Onward Christian soldiers -- A nation divided.
Summary:
"Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies, "--NoveList.
"Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (in the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to attend the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977, where Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists endorsed a platform supporting abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights. Across town, Phyllis Schlafly, Lottie Beth Hobbs, and the conservative women's movement held a massive rally to protest federally funded feminism and launch a pro-family movement. Divided We Stand explores the role social issues have played in politics by reprising the battle between feminists and their conservative challengers, leading to Democrats supporting women's rights and Republicans casting themselves as the party of family values. As the 2016 presidential election made clear, the women's rights movement and the conservative women's movement have irrevocably affected the course of modern American politics. We cannot fully understand the present without appreciating the pivotal events that transpired in Houston and immediately thereafter."--Jacket.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Sackville Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
305.40973 S771d
Adult books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.