Faces Of Feminism

Sheila Tobias has been an academic and an activist for over twenty-five years. She has participated in many feminist gatherings, from the Congress to Unite Women in 1970 to the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians in 1993, and is a former board member of the NOW Legal defence and Education Fund. The author of the best-seller Overcoming Math Anxiety as well as Women, Militarism, and War (with Jean Bethke Elshtain), Tobias now works as a consultant to universities on math and science education, equity issues, and women's studies.

• 1 Gender and Politics Redefined, 2 The Emergence of Women's Rights as a Political Issue, 3 Feminism in the Postsuffrage Era, 4 Women at Work, 5 Betty Friedan and the Feminine Mystique, 6 The Origins of the Second Wave of Feminism, Three Strands and an Accident, 7 The Women's Movement Goes to Work: Role Equity Issues, 8 Second-Generation Issues: Conflict over Role Change, 9 Antifeminist Women on the Right: The Battle over the ERA, 10 Feminism and Sexual Preference: Lesbians and Lesbian Rights, 11 Third -Generation Issues: Issues on Which Feminists Do Not Agree, 12 New Theory, New Scholarship, 13 Fissures into Fractures, 14 Surviving the 1980s, 15 The End of a Movement