![]() Finally, Rosen outlines how, even as feminism was proliferating throughout the country among such groups as older women and trade union women and in educational and religious institutions, it was also becoming diluted by what she terms consumer feminism (selling goods and services to promote liberation) and therapeutic feminism, which turned the political back into the personal. ![]() She also sketches the political splits and crises-such as the Redstockings' attack on Gloria Steinem and FBI infiltration-that wrought havoc in the movement as the backlash against legal abortion and the ERA was gathering steam. Her focus is on the "hidden injuries of sex" and how what had been construed as "personal" problems-abortion, compulsory heterosexuality, rape and sexual violence, prostitution and pornography-became political issues. ![]() Highlighting the dramatic changes in culture and attitudes brought about by the women's movement in the 1960s and '70s, Rosen details the rebirth of feminism, from the liberalism of NOW through women's liberation, which grew out of the civil rights movement. ![]()
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