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For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality by Dorothy Sue Cobble

mattrohn's review

informative medium-paced

3.0

This book presents an interesting history of international labor feminists, primarily from the U.S. from the Progressive Era through the 1960s. There's lots of information in here but often not very well coordinated into a clear narrative, and has a problem that I see a lot in intellectual histories\histories of advocacy organizations, which is a large gap between discussions of what they're talking about and advocating for and what is actually happening in the world. It's fine to say that organizations' reactions to events is a way for us to see how people thought and felt about those events, but the book seems to want to argue that the organizations' actions were impactful on policy and there's usually a pretty large mind\body gap there