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Book Review| March 01 2020 Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family by Kirsten Swinth Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family. Swinth, Kirsten. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018. 339 pp., $35.00 (cloth) Katherine Turk Katherine Turk University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Labor (2020) 17 (1): 169–170. https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7963069 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter Email Permissions Search Site Citation Katherine Turk; Feminism’s Forgotten Fight: The Unfinished Struggle for Work and Family by Kirsten Swinth. Labor 1 March 2020; 17 (1): 169–170. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/15476715-7963069 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsLabor Search Advanced Search In histories of feminism, the phrase second wave has become controversial, seeming to describe a narrow and elitist movement. Among the most damning critiques of “second wavers” is that they helped to shore up hierarchical labor relationships and an unjust economy in the 1970s by demanding access to the workplace as it was. But as Feminism’s Forgotten Fight teaches us, that’s not what happened. Even in examining a traditional “second-wave” chronology and familiar types of movement actors, Kirsten Swinth offers an exciting new account that recasts the entire movement.Feminism’s Forgotten Fight profiles liberal feminists, radical feminists, and feminists of color who argued that work and family needed structural transformation if gender equality was to be realized. They claimed that women should be able to “have it all,” not that they already could. These activists did not cause the decline of... Copyright © 2020 Labor and Working-Class History Association2020 Issue Section: Book Reviews You do not currently have access to this content.
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