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portada Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times
Type
Physical Book
Year
1998
Language
English
Pages
326
Format
Paperback
Weight
1
ISBN
0226038858
ISBN13
9780226038858
Edition No.
1

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times

Sylvia Beth Bashevkin (Author) · University Of Chicago Press · Paperback

Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times - Sylvia Beth Bashevkin

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Synopsis "Women on the Defensive: Living Through Conservative Times "

Feminism underwent perhaps its most difficult challenges in the 1980s, when conservatism reached the height of its influence in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times explodes some widely-held beliefs about women and women's movements under Conservative and Republican leaders. Prevailing accounts of the fate of women's movements in that decade ascribe their hardships to a postfeminist ideology or the result of a "backlash" against women, particularly in America. Sylvia Bashevkin's study excavates, however, a much more complex situation. By identifying the policies and goals held in common by feminists in all three countries and tracing their collision course with the conservative policies of the three administrations, she is able to document setbacks but also some progress, despite the right-of-center leaders. She also challenges the assumption that organized interests in the United States are less vulnerable in hard times than those in parliamentary systems, finding that the elections of Ronald Reagan, Brian Mulroney, and Margaret Thatcher had similar effects on both sides of the Atlantic. Her comparative analysis reveals that the policies of current leaders, while marginally better than their predecessors, will not allow women and women's movements to regain lost ground.Organized thematically, rather than by country, Women on the Defensive describes the difficult relationship between feminists and conservatives during a time of bitter ideological and policy battles when the vibrant social movements of the 1960s and 1970s were seriously threatened.

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