No Turning Back: The Feminist Resource Site

A web supplement to the issues, communities, and organizations discussed in Estelle Freedman's new book

Feminist Resource Site: Home

January 15, 2003

Hello! This page has been developed to support some of the issues discussed in No Turning Back. I wrote this book not only as a history of feminism but also to acknowledge the many ways that feminist movements contribute to the lives of women and men throughout the contemporary world. As I talk about the book around the country, people frequently ask me how they can become involved with issues, communities, and organizations. I hope this page can help point readers to further information about feminism in the past and present. For teachers assigning No Turning Back in their classrooms, the following links provide further information on topics discussed in each chapter, including some primary historical documents that can be discussed in class.

I would like this web page, like the book, to allow readers to explore further the ideas presented in No Turning Back. As I wrote in the preface,

I hope that this book can do for others what early feminist writing did for me. At a time of profound changes in women's lives throughout the world, we need tools to probe more deeply into the meaning of gender. At a time when it would be easy to dwell on resistance to feminism, we need a longer historical perspective. Based on the vibrant scholarship surveyed here, I find that the prospects for women have never been brighter. We have much reason to hope that there will be no turning back from a feminist future. (NTB, xiii).

Index (click on chapter title to find resource links)

Introduction
1. The Historical Case for Feminism

Part I: Before Feminism
2. Gender & Power

Part II: The Historical Emergence of Feminisms
3. Women's Rights, Women's Work, and Women's Sphere
4. Race and the Politics of Identity in U.S. Feminism
5. The Global Stage and the Politics of Location

Part III: The Politics of Work & Family
6. Never Done: Women's Domestic Labor
7. Industrialization, Wage Labor, and the Economic Gender Gap
8. Workers & Mothers: Feminist Social Policies

Part IV: The Politics of Health & Sexuality
9. Medicine, Markets, and the Female Body
10. Reproduction: The Politics of Choice
11. Sexualities, Identities, and Self-Determination
12. Gender & Violence

Part V: Feminist Visions & Strategies
13. New Words and Images: Women's Creativity as Feminist Practice
14. No Turning Back: Women and Politics...

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