Talking with Gail Collins About the Women's Rights Movement - new bk.

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http://counterpunch.com/rosenberg02262010.html


Dolls and Drudges Don Pants


New York Times columnist Gail Collins' new history of the women's rights movement in the 1960s, When Everything Changed, has just been published by Little Brown. I interviewed her about her book last week.

Rosenberg: Your new book, When Everything Changed (Little, Brown) covers the cascade of rights women won between 1964 and 1972 from equal pay and the right to their own credit rating to the right to wear pants and to be called by the honorific "MS." Why was this second women's rights movement necessary fifty years after women won the right to vote?

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Recently Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of feminist writer Ellen Willis and Emma Bee Bernstein took the pulse of feminism on college campuses in their book, Girl drive: Criss-Crossing America, Redefining Feminism. They found that many young women were hostile to the term.

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College women and even women born since 1980 seem to lack appreciation for the rights that were won for them--and even awareness of what it was like for their mothers and grandmothers.

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Gail Collins: As the year 2000 approached, the Times asked me to write an introduction for their Millennium issue and as I did the research I was astonished to realize the breadth of changes US women had undergone. In less than ten years, over 1000 years of dogma about women was reversed! Writing When Everything Changed gave me a chance to interview some of these women who did amazing things that are still having effects today.
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mouthy men should read it too

[pmbryant]

1. I'll definitely be getting this book

He last book on a similar subject, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines, was fabulous.

--Peter