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Breaking the Wave is the first anthology of original essays by both younger and established scholars that takes a long view of feminist activism by systematically examining the dynamics of movement persistence during moments of reaction and backlash. Ranging from the "civic feminism" of white middle-class organizers and the "womanism" of Harlem consumers in the immediate postwar period, to the utopian feminism of Massachusetts lesbian softball league founders and environmentally minded feminists in the 1970s and 1980s, Breaking the Wave documents a continuity of activism in both national and l

The waves metaphor to delineate feminist activism in the United States is troublesome, to say the least. Despite its problems, the waves model has tremendous staying power when it comes to understanding, analyzing, writing about, and teaching the history of U.S. feminism. In this collection of essays, historians revisit this model, highlighting the efficacy of feminist waves as we know them, but also challenging this model for eliding the experiences of women of color, men, young people, and others whose activist work falls under a capacious definition of feminism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Diner, Hasia R. / Kohn, Shira / Kranson, Rachel -- 1. "Some of Us Were There before Betty": Jewish Women and Political Activism in Postwar Miami / Mohl, Raymond A. -- 2. The Polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's Postwar Jewish Cold War / Sinkoff, Nancy -- 3. "Our Defense against Despair": The Progressive Politics of the National Council of Jewish Women after World War II / Laughlin, Kathleen A. -- 4. "It's Good Americanism to Join Hadassah": Selling Hadassah in the Postwar Era / Boim Wolf, Rebecca -- 5. "A Lady Sometimes Blows the Shofar": Women's Religious Equality in the Postwar Reconstructionist Movement / Waxman, Deborah -- 6. Beyond the Myths of Mobility and Altruism: Jewish Immigrant Professionals and Jewish Social Welfare Agencies in New York City, 1948-1954 / Kobrin, Rebecca -- 7. Negotiating New Terrain: Egyptian Women at Home in America / Nasar, Audrey -- 8. The Bad Girls of Jewish Comedy: Gender, Class, Assimilation, and Whiteness in Postwar America / Del Negro, Giovanna P. -- 9. Judy Holliday's Urban Working-Girl Characters in 1950s Hollywood Film / Smith, Judith -- 10. The "Gentle Jewish Mother" Who Owned a Luxury Resort: The Public Image of Jennie Grossinger, 1954-1972 / Kranson, Rachel -- 11. Reading Marjorie Morningstar in the Age of the Feminine Mystique and After / Sicherman, Barbara -- 12. "We Were Ready to Turn the World Upside Down": Radical Feminism and Jewish Women / Antler, Joyce -- 13. Jewish Women Remaking American Feminism/ Women Remaking American Judaism: Reflections on the Life of Betty Friedan / Horowitz, Daniel -- Biographies of Contributors -- Index