Yours in sisterhood : Ms. magazine and the promise of popular feminism / Amy Erdman Farrell.
In this book, Amy Erdman Farrell traces Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of the magazine itself, Farrell examines the role Ms. played in popularizing feminism and explores the...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[1998]
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| Series: | Gender & American culture.
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| Online Access: | HeinOnline Women and the Law (Peggy) |
| Summary: | In this book, Amy Erdman Farrell traces Ms. from its pathbreaking origins in 1972 to its final commercial issue in 1989. Drawing on interviews with former editors, archival materials, and the text of the magazine itself, Farrell examines the role Ms. played in popularizing feminism and explores the complexities and contradictions created by a publication that sought to forge an oppositional politics within the context of commercial culture. An engrossing and objective account, Yours in Sisterhood illuminates the significant yet difficult connections between commercial culture and social movements. It reveals a complex, often contradictory magazine that was a major force in the contemporary feminist movement. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0807866679 9780807866672 |