TY  - BOOK
AU  - Spruill,Marjorie Julian
TI  - Divided we stand: the battle over women's rights and family values that polarized American politics 
SN  - 9781632863140
AV  - HQ1421 .S683 2017
U1  - 305.420973 
PY  - 2017///
CY  - New York
PB  - Bloomsbury
KW  - National Women's Conference (U.S.)
KW  - (1977
KW  - Houston, Tex.)
KW  - Women social reformers
KW  - United States
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Attitudes
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Anti-feminism
KW  - Feminists
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Women conservatives
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Modern
KW  - 20th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Social History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Authors' autographs (Provenance)
KW  - rbprov
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-425) and index; Four days that changed the world -- The rise of the feminist establishment -- To form a more perfect union -- What's wrong with "equal rights" for women? -- An alternative to "women's lib" -- The gathering storm -- Armageddon state by state -- Out of the kitchen and into the counterrevolution -- Mama said there'd be days like this -- Crest of the second wave -- Launching the pro-family movement -- We shall go forth -- Onward Christian soldiers -- Epilogue : A nation divided
N2  - "Forty years ago, two women's movements drew a line in the sand between liberals and conservatives. The legacy of that rift is still evident today in American politics and social policies."--NoveList; "Gloria Steinem was quoted in 2015 (in the New Yorker) as saying the National Women's Conference in 1977 "may take the prize as the most important event nobody knows about." After the United Nations established International Women's Year (IWY) in 1975, Congress mandated and funded state conferences to elect delegates to attend the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977, where Bella Abzug, Gloria Steinem, and other feminists endorsed a platform supporting abortion rights, the Equal Rights Amendment, and gay rights. Across town, Phyllis Schlafly, Lottie Beth Hobbs, and the conservative women's movement held a massive rally to protest federally funded feminism and launch a pro-family movement. Divided We Stand explores the role social issues have played in politics by reprising the battle between feminists and their conservative challengers, leading to Democrats supporting women's rights and Republicans casting themselves as the party of family values. As the 2016 presidential election made clear, the women's rights movement and the conservative women's movement have irrevocably affected the course of modern American politics. We cannot fully understand the present without appreciating the pivotal events that transpired in Houston and immediately thereafter."--Jacket
ER  -