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Introducing Feminism

by Susan Alice Watkins, Marisa Rueda, Marta Rodriguez · 1990

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Cuts through the myths surrounding the subject and provides an incisive account of the women's movement from its surprisingly recent birth in the French Revolution to the worldwide explosion of women's liberation in the 1970s and the conservative backlash of the Reagan and Thatcher years of the 1980s.

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Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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