Moving the Mountain

Moving the Mountain by Flora Davis. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780671602079.

"Moving the Mountain" tells the story of the struggles and triumphs of thousands of activists who achieved half a revolution between 1960 and 1990. In this award-winning book, the most complete history of the womens movement to date, Flora Davis presents a grass-roots view of the small steps and giant leaps that have changed laws and institutions as well as the prejudices and unspoken rules governing a womans place in American society. Looking at every major feminist issue from the point of view of the participants in the struggle, "Moving the Mountain" conveys the excitement, the frustration, and the creative chaos of feminisms Second Wave. This title includes a new afterword that assesses the movements progress in the 1990s and prospects for the new century.