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Preface.(Critical essay)

Feminist Studies

| September 22, 2008 | Raitt, Suzanne; Phillips, Layli | COPYRIGHT 2008 Feminist Studies, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IN THIS ISSUE, we reexamine the 1970s, when, in Marge Piercy's words, "the movement opened up." As we write this preface, the nation is awaiting the inauguration of President-Elect Barack Obama, and we hope that his presidency will be the catalyst for the next wave of the civil rights movement that is commemorated and explored in these pages. One of the tasks our contributors have set themselves in this issue is to try and tease apart the multiple feminisms that grew out of and alongside the civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s, and all the articles in this issue highlight the fluidity and the promise of that historical moment, when new theories and practices ...

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