xi, 227 pages, [16] pages of plates : 24 cm

The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is one of the nation's oldest and most influential voices for equality in education, the professions, and public life. Tracing the history of the AAUW, Susan Levine provides a new perspective on the meaning of feminism for women in mainstream organizations. In so doing, she explores the problems that women confront and the strategies they have developed to achieve equal rights. By examining the experience of groups like AAUW, Levine suggests that feminism was not so much "reborn" in the 1970s as it was adopted by a rapidly growing constituency of college educated women demanding the realization of their goals

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-211) and index

pt. I. Equality With a Difference: Experts in a Limited Sphere, 1929-1945. 1. Education as a Badge of Service. 2. Testing the Boundaries of Liberal Feminism. 3. Women as World Citizens -- pt. II. Women's Culture and the Crisis of American Liberalism, 1945-1960. 4. Retreat from Conflict. 5. Higher Education and the New Domesticity. 6. Sociability and Racial Justice -- pt. III. Mainstream Feminism and the New Activism, 1960-1979. 7. The Expansion of Education and the Feminist Constituency. 8. Leaders of the Moderate Mainstream -- Afterword / Alice Ann Leidel and Jackie DeFazio -- Appendix A. AAUW Presidents

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