Introduction

Sawer, Marian; Grey, Sandra

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Introduction

Date

2008-01-01

Authors

Sawer, Marian

Grey, Sandra

Abstract

The public face of the women’s movement across developed democracies has changed profoundly over the past 40 years. The types and levels of activism found today bear only a minor resemblance to the consciousness raising and direct action of the late 1960s and early 1970s. This book explores the trajectories of ‘second-wave’ women’s movements in a range of democracies to understand what has happened to these movements since they were making headlines.