Contents:
Cover; Breaking the Wave: Women, Their Organizations, and Feminism, 1945-1985;
Copyright;
Contents;
Acknowledgments;
Foreword;
Introduction: The Long History of Feminism;
PART I Mainstream, Leftist, and Sexual Politics;
CHAPTER 1 Civic Feminists: The Politics of the Minnesota Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, 1942-1965;
CHAPTER 2 The Legal Origins of "The Personal Is Political": Bella Abzug and Sexual Politics in Cold War America;
CHAPTER 3 "I'm Glad as Heck That You Exist": Feminist Lesbian Organizing in the 1950s;
PART II Women's Global Visions;
CHAPTER 4 Exporting Civic Womanhood: Gender and Nation Building;
CHAPTER 5 The National Council of Negro Women, Human Rights, and the Cold War;
CHAPTER 6 From Ladies' Aid to NGO: Transformations in Methodist Women's Organizing in Postwar America; PART III The Politics of Location;
CHAPTER 7 The Consumers' Protective Committee: Women's Activism in Postwar Harlem;
CHAPTER 8 "Pregnant? Need Help? Call Jane": Service as Radical Action in the Abortion Underground in Chicago;
CHAPTER 9 Feminizing Portland, Oregon: A History of the League of Women Voters in the Postwar Era, 1950-1975;
CHAPTER 10 Barrio Women: Community and Coalition in the Heartland;
PART IV Feminist Consciousness and Movement Persistence;
CHAPTER 11 "Stop That Rambo Shit. . . This Is Feminist Softball": Reconsidering Women's Organizing in the Reagan Era and Beyond;
CHAPTER 12 "It Would Be Stupendous for Us Girls": Campaigning for Women Judges Without Waving; CHAPTER 13 Building Lesbian Studies in the 1970s and 1980s;
Conclusion: Looking Backward, Looking Forward;
Selected Bibliography;
Contributors;
Index.