A review by glitterandtwang
Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women's Movements by Astrid Henry, Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon

4.0

Mostly well written, informative history of feminism in the 20th century. The chapter on second wave feminism is a little troublesome in some of its sweeping claims that this or that were the *all-time most important* contributions of second-wave feminism, which is a pretty broad claim for any scholar to make. There are some generalizations, but this isn't an in-depth historical look -- it's a straightforward, brief history of some contentions within each wave of the feminist movement.

Feminism has been an important part of my life since I encountered my first sociology class in college, and I do feel like this is a good primer for anyone who is confused as to what exactly "feminism" is as a movement, how it has been shaped, and how it continues to change. It's an important, dynamic movement, and I do think that the majority of this book is informative so long as its readers don't take the authors' claims as absolute gospel.