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Califia Women : Feminist Education against Sexism, Classism, and Racism / Clark A. Pomerleau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (269 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780292752955
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 370.82
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Califia Community in Social Movement History -- Chapter 1. The Need for Community Education Projects -- Chapter 2. Founding, Fun, and Friction -- Chapter 3. Interest in Women -- Chapter 4. Channeling Class Resentments -- Chapter 5. Antiracism to Get under the Skin -- Chapter 6. The Right Attacks and Internal Divisions -- Conclusion. Enduring Legacies for “the Week” -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Launched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia’s attempts to tie feminism to university courses, Califia blended aspects of feminism that spanned the labels “second wave” and “radical,” attracting women from a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, class backgrounds, and races or ethnicities. Califia Women captures the history of the organization through oral history interviews, archives, and other forms of primary research. The result is a lens for re-reading trends in feminist and social justice activism of the time period, contextualized against a growing conservative backlash. Throughout each chapter, readers learn about the triumphs and frictions feminists encountered as they attempted to build on the achievements of the postwar Civil Rights movement. With its backdrop of southern California, the book emphasizes a region that has often been overlooked in studies of East Coast or San Francisco Bay–area activism. Califia Women also counters the notions that radical and lesbian feminists were unwilling to address intersectional identities generally and that they withdrew from political activism after 1975. Instead, the Califia Community shows evidence that these and other feminists intentionally created an educational forum that embraced oppositional consciousness and sought to serve a variety of women, including radical Christian reformers, Wiccans, scholars of color, and GLBT activists.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction. Califia Community in Social Movement History -- Chapter 1. The Need for Community Education Projects -- Chapter 2. Founding, Fun, and Friction -- Chapter 3. Interest in Women -- Chapter 4. Channeling Class Resentments -- Chapter 5. Antiracism to Get under the Skin -- Chapter 6. The Right Attacks and Internal Divisions -- Conclusion. Enduring Legacies for “the Week” -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Launched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia’s attempts to tie feminism to university courses, Califia blended aspects of feminism that spanned the labels “second wave” and “radical,” attracting women from a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, class backgrounds, and races or ethnicities. Califia Women captures the history of the organization through oral history interviews, archives, and other forms of primary research. The result is a lens for re-reading trends in feminist and social justice activism of the time period, contextualized against a growing conservative backlash. Throughout each chapter, readers learn about the triumphs and frictions feminists encountered as they attempted to build on the achievements of the postwar Civil Rights movement. With its backdrop of southern California, the book emphasizes a region that has often been overlooked in studies of East Coast or San Francisco Bay–area activism. Califia Women also counters the notions that radical and lesbian feminists were unwilling to address intersectional identities generally and that they withdrew from political activism after 1975. Instead, the Califia Community shows evidence that these and other feminists intentionally created an educational forum that embraced oppositional consciousness and sought to serve a variety of women, including radical Christian reformers, Wiccans, scholars of color, and GLBT activists.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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