ABSTRACT
The resurgence of a self-conscious and social feminist movement led to a refocus on the size and shape of women’s places themselves and in relation to men’s. Combined with more systematic analyses of class and race inequalities, it was impelled by an activist movement geared to challenging and revealing oppression, powerlessness and discrimination against women. Women took on an image in some feminist work as well as in some not-so-feminist works as no more than the sum total of their oppression. Feminist activism is fairly quiescent. The dominant political voice is a conservative one. Their message is to apply pressure to minorities, workers and women to once again accommodate, to not question the inevitability of the social order, to stress again that inequality is natural and therefore ineradicable. Reiry shows how women use informal personal agendas and social networks as organizational forms to resist those who have power to deny them economic resources.
