This is an Authors Guild/BIP title. Please use Authors Guild/BIP specs. Author Bio: Jo Freeman is an attorney, author, and political scientist. She has published five books and dozens of articles on women and politics, feminism, social movements, public policy and law, political parties, organizational theory, education, federal election law, and the national nominating conventions. Description: This book analyses the two branches of the new feminist movement of the mid-1960s through 1973 and presents a theory of social movement origins, examines (...) internal conflicts, and assesses the role of the press in movement growth. It also explores how the movment created public policy and how policy shaped the movement. "Up to now, nobody has been sure what the women's liberation movement is, we just know it is happening. Jo Freeman makes up for feminism's peculiar lact of political analysis." 桸ancy Borman, Majority Report. (shrink)

This article develops a cross-cultural and historical theory of antifeminist movements. Such movements are composed of two elements, which often involve very different types of people: vested-interest groups and voluntary associations. Five predictions concerning the social composition of antifeminist vested-interest groups and voluntary organizations and antifeminist movement ideology are derived from the theory. Evidence taken from existing literature pertaining to both first-wave and second-wave antifeminist movements in a variety of nations is reviewed. Substantial support is found for all five predictions. (...) We conclude that antifeminist movement adherents are responding to realistic threats. For men and vested-interest groups, the threat is primarily class based, but also extends to their status as family head; for women, it is primarily status based as wives and mothers, but also class-based inasmuch as their husbands' economic interests are threatened. (shrink)