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Feminist Phoenix
The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture
Jerry L. Rodnitzky
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Feminist Phoenix

The Rise and Fall of a Feminist Counterculture

Jerry L. Rodnitzky Jerry L. Rodnitzky

July 1999

Praeger

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The rise and fall of feminist counterculture is traced through feminism's liberation of popular media such as music, cinema, and television and provides portraits of personalities as countercultural models. In addition, the decline of feminism after 1980 is explored.

The book begins by suggesting relevant countercultural problems and failures throughout American history to provide a broad historical perspective. It also describes how the New Left countercultural stress influenced the women's liberation movement. Individual chapters focus on how feminists used music as a counterculture and how they attempted to liberate media such as cinema, television, and advertising. Cultural portraits of Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, and Gloria Steinem suggest how individual women can be effective countercultural models. The book examines the decline of feminism since 1980 and links that decline to the fall of feminist counterculture. Feminists of the 1960s seemed to be repeating the history of the 1920s, when feminists gained the vote, but then lost the next generation. Contemporary feminists made many economic and political gains, but again lost the next generation of women. Despite this loss, the book concentrates primarily on the positive and predicts that countercultural feminism will rise phoenix-like into a new future, feminist era.
Preface
Historical Origins: The Search for a Feminist Counterculture
Countercultural Failure: American Feminism 1700-1960
New Left Feminism: Countercultural Focus, 1960-1972
Cultural Liberation: Developing a Modern Feminist Counterculture
Songs of Sisterhood: Music as a Countercultural Tool
Mass Consciousness Raising: Liberating the Media
Feminist Heroines: Countercultural Models
The Next Generation: Countercultural Test
The New Romanticism: Feminism and versus Heterosexual Bliss
From Counterculture to Networking: Winning the Battles and Losing the War
Selected Bibliography
Index




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