Many radical white women, unable to see beyond their own experiences and idealism, often behaved in unconsciously or abstractly racist ways, despitetheir passionately anti-racist stance and hard work to develop an interracial movement. Herself a participant in these events, Breines attempts to reconcilethe explicit professions of anti-racism by white feminists with the accusations of mistreatment, ignorance, and neglect by African American feminists. In The Trouble Between Us, Winifred Breines explores why a racially integrated women's liberation movement did not develop in the United States.Drawing on flyers, letters, newspapers, journals, institutional records, and oral histories, Breines dissects how white and black women's participation in the movements of the 1960s led to the development of separate feminisms. To this day, the failure to create anintegrated movement remains a sensitive and contested issue. The Trouble Between Us: An Uneasy History of White and Black Women in the Feminist Movement by Winifred Breines Inspired by the idealism of the civil rights movement, the women who launched the radical second wave of the feminist movement believed, as a bedrock principle, in universal sisterhood and color-blind democracy. The chapters cover: first-wave feminism, a period of feminist activity during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which focused primarily on gaining women's suffrage second-wave feminism, which started in the '60s and lasted through the '80s and emphasized the connection between the personal and the political and third-wave feminism, which started in the early '90s and is best exemplified by its focus on diversity, intersectionality, queer theory, and sex-positivity. Feminisms will provide historical context of all the major events and figures from the late nineteenth century through today.
Covering the first, second, and third waves of feminism, A History of U.S. Feminisms is an introductory text that will be used as supplementary material for first-year women's studies students or as a brush-up text for more advanced students. Dicker The complete, authoritative, and up to date history of American feminism Updated and expanded, the second edition of A History of U.S.
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