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This Second Edition is an essential resource for librarians, scholars, and students. This succinct handbook includes more than 1,000 entries covering the persons, organizations, campaigns and court cases, goals and achievements, and current and future directions of the feminist movement, 75 percent of which are new and revised from the first edition. This second edition also features a more internationally focused introduction that provides an overview of the history and development of feminism as a movement and as a philosophy. Rounding out this new edition are an expanded chronology, and an updated bibliography that brings attention to many feminist online resources and periodicals, and emphasizes global and third-wave feminism, both new developments in the field since the publication of the first edition. Paying tribute to the struggles of the women, and men, who have worked to change and to improve the living conditions for women in the world, this book promises a comprehensive historical overview for readers of all interest levels.

The contemporary feminist movement that emerged in the mid-1960s had dual origins: liberal women's rights organizations that pursued legislative and judicial reforms, and a radical movement based in numerous small local groups. Over the past 25 years, both movements have been transformed in ways that reflect and complement American federalism. In order to influence legislative policy-making that dominates on the national and state levels, women's rights groups have become professionalized interest group lobbies and have formed policy networks that pursue diverse agendas. Because urban politics are uniquely bureaucratic politics, local feminists currently act through issue-specific women's policy networks composed of advocacy groups, women-run alternative services, and urban bureaucracies responsible for funding, delivering, or regulating programs that meet the special needs of women.

The contemporary feminist movement that emerged in the mid-1960s originated in liberal women's rights organizations that pursued legislative & judicial reforms, & a radical movement. Here, it is suggested that both strains have been transformed in ways that reflect & complement US federalism. In order to influence legislative policy making at the national & state levels, women's rights groups have become professionalized interest group lobbies & have formed policy networks that pursue diverse agendas. Feminists also act at the local level through issue-specific women's policy networks composed of advocacy groups, women-run alternative services, & urban bureaucracies responsible for funding, delivering, or regulating programs that meet the special needs of women. Adapted from the source document.