Humor and Gender Roles: The “Funny” Feminism of the Post-World War II Suburbs

Chapters in this book

1. i-iv i
2. Contents v
3. Series Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Feminist Struggles for Sex Equality
6. Feminist Friends: Agrarian Quakers and the Emergence of Woman's Rights in America 3
7. Women's Rights and the Wrongs of Marriage in Mid-Nineteenth-Century America 26
8. Labor’s True Woman: Domesticity and Equal Rights in the Knights of Labor 49
9. Sisters of the Grange: Rural Feminism in the Late Nineteenth Century 66
10. Populism and Feminism in a Newspaper by and for Women of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance, 1891–1894 81
11. The Anarchist-Feminist Response to the “Woman Question” in Late Nineteenth-Century America 107
12. Feminist Responses to “Crimes against Women,” 1868–1896 122
13. Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Feminist’s Struggle with Womanhood 142
14. The Women’s Trade Union League and American Feminism 166
15. Creating a Feminist Alliance: Sisterhood and Class Conflict in the New York Women’s Trade Union League, 1903–1914 181
16. Feminism as Life-Process: The Life and Career of Lucy Sprague Mitchell 196
17. Feminist Politics in the 1920s: The National Woman’s Party 220
18. The National Woman’s Party and the Origins of the Equal Rights Amendment, 1920–1923 246
19. Feminist Against Feminist: The First Phase of the Equal Rights Amendment Debate, 1923–1963 272
20. Organized Women in Mississippi: The Clash over Legal Disabilities in the 1920’s 287
21. Challenging “Woman’s Place”: Feminism, the Left, and Industrial Unionism in the 1930s 299
22. Humor and Gender Roles: The “Funny” Feminism of the Post-World War II Suburbs 327
23. The Women’s Community in the National Woman’s Party, 1945 to the 1960s 343
24. Women Activists, Southern Conservatives, and the Prohibition of Sex Discrimination in Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act 369
25. The Origins of the Women’s Liberation Movement 389
26. Race, Class, and Gender: Prospects for an All-Inclusive Sisterhood 401
27. The Rise and Fall of Feminist Organizations in the 1970s: Dayton as a Case Study 421
28. Feminism and the Contemporary Family 442
29. A Response to Inequality: Black Women, Racism, and Sexism 468
30. Copyright Information 491
31. Index 495