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The American women's movement has been shrouded in myths, dispute three leading scholars in this bold and revisionist background. Eschewing the traditional knowledge that places the origins of the American women's movement in the nostalgic shine of the later 1960s, Feminism Unfinished traces the origins of the seminal American cultural movement to the 1920s, along the way creating an extended, historical narrative that considerably rewrites a century of North american women's background. Also challenging the modern-day "lean-in", trickle-down feminist beliefs and asserting that women's histories frequently depoliticize politics, labor issues, and divergent economical circumstances, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry illustrate that the post-Suffrage women's movement centered on exploitation of women in the work place as well as on natural sexual rights. The authors carefully revise our "wave" perspective of feminism, which recently suggested that there were clear breaks and sharp divisions within these media-driven "waves". Showing how history literature have obscured the noteworthy activism by working-class and minority women in the past, Feminism Unfinished offers a much-needed corrective.
