International Women s Year the greatest consciousness raising event in history 1st Edition by Jocelyn Olcott ISBN 978-0195327687 0195327683

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ISBN 10:  0195327683

ISBN 13: 978-0195327687

Author:  Jocelyn Olcott

Amid the geopolitical and social turmoil of the 1970s, the United Nations declared 1975 as International Women’s Year. The capstone event, a two-week conference in Mexico City, was dubbed by organizers and journalists as “the greatest consciousness-raising event in history.” The event drew an all-star cast of characters, including Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, Iranian Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, and US feminist Betty Friedan, as well as a motley array of policymakers, activists, and journalists.

International Women’s Year, the first book to examine this critical moment in feminist history, starts by exploring how organizers juggled geopolitical rivalries and material constraints amid global political and economic instability. The story then dives into the action in Mexico City, including conflicts over issues ranging from abortion to Zionism. The United Nations provided indispensable infrastructure and support for this encounter, even as it came under fire for its own discriminatory practices. While participants expressed dismay at levels of discord and conflict, Jocelyn Olcott explores how these combative, unanticipated encounters generated the most enduring legacies, including women’s networks across the global south, greater attention to the intersectionalities of marginalization, and the arrival of women’s micro-credit on the development scene.

This watershed moment in transnational feminism, colorfully narrated in International Women’s Year, launched a new generation of activist networks that spanned continents, ideologies, and generations.

Table of contents: 

ACT I
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S YEAR DESERVES NO LESS

Scene 1. WINGO Politics
Scene 2. Choosing Battles in the Cold War
Scene 3. Getting to Mexico City
Scene 4. Follow the Money

ACT II
THE CONFERENCE

Scene 5. Opening Acts
Scene 6. Inauguration Day
Scene 7. “Betty Friedan versus the Third World”
Scene 8. “This Is an Illegitimate Delegation”
Scene 9. “Other Kinds of Problems”
Scene 10. The Politics of Peace
Scene 11. The First Rule of Fight Club
Scene 12. Coming Out Party
Scene 13. Chaos in the Tribune
Scene 14. Counter-congresses
Scene 15. Domitila to the Tribune!
Scene 16. The Final Push
Scene 17. Unceremonious Closing

ACT III
LEGACIES

Scene 18. Beyond Mexico City

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