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Book Reviews : Faces of Feminism : An Activist's Reflexions on the Womens Movement. By Sheila Tobias, Boulder, CO : Westview, 1997, 321 pp., $24.00 ( Hardbount).

Book Reviews : Faces of Feminism : An Activist's Reflexions on the Womens Movement. By Sheila... An Activist’s on the Women’s Movement. Faces of Feminism: Reflections By Tobias. CO: 321 Sheila 1997, $24.00 Boulder, Westview, (hard- pp., bound). The author’s is to feminism and the women’s move- purpose place the second in which she an ment, especially generation played impor- tant in the context of historical events and to the role, analyze why movement both succeeded and failed to achieve its Tobias goals. with women’s as a issue in the 19th begins rights political century, the reader on a tour the events of the 1960s takes through exhilarating describes the of conservative forces in the and 1970s, ascendancy and the movement’s in the 1990s. She 1980s, critiques splintering in the movement after she heard Kate Millett read began participating in 1968. She from her unpublished manuscript exposing patriarchy theme her and it continues to has returned to that career, throughout and for the future. her analysis suggestions guide is a book for several reasons. Tobias This First, significant provides extensive historical and information to set the events of the political women’s movement in context. There is much for exam- information, about the of feminism’s second wave that the reader helps ple, origins understand and how http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

Book Reviews : Faces of Feminism : An Activist's Reflexions on the Womens Movement. By Sheila Tobias, Boulder, CO : Westview, 1997, 321 pp., $24.00 ( Hardbount).

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0886-1099
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1552-3020
DOI
10.1177/088610999801300411
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An Activist’s on the Women’s Movement. Faces of Feminism: Reflections By Tobias. CO: 321 Sheila 1997, $24.00 Boulder, Westview, (hard- pp., bound). The author’s is to feminism and the women’s move- purpose place the second in which she an ment, especially generation played impor- tant in the context of historical events and to the role, analyze why movement both succeeded and failed to achieve its Tobias goals. with women’s as a issue in the 19th begins rights political century, the reader on a tour the events of the 1960s takes through exhilarating describes the of conservative forces in the and 1970s, ascendancy and the movement’s in the 1990s. She 1980s, critiques splintering in the movement after she heard Kate Millett read began participating in 1968. She from her unpublished manuscript exposing patriarchy theme her and it continues to has returned to that career, throughout and for the future. her analysis suggestions guide is a book for several reasons. Tobias This First, significant provides extensive historical and information to set the events of the political women’s movement in context. There is much for exam- information, about the of feminism’s second wave that the reader helps ple, origins understand and how

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Affilia: Journal of Women and Social WorkSAGE

Published: Dec 1, 1998

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