Leave the dishes in the sink adventures of an activist in conservative Utah
Alison Thorne provides a small-town Utah perspective on the progressive social movements that in the mid to late twentieth century dramatically affected American society. A born activist, Thorne has fought for women's rights, educational reform in public schools and universities, the environmen...
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press
c2002.
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430344206719 |
Table of Contents:
- Contents; Illustrations; Foreword; Introduction; 1 Growing Up in the 1920s; 2 The Great Depression and College Years; 3 Producing Children and Books: The 1940s; 4 Search for Values; 5 Conformity and Creativity; 6 Social Justice: The 1960s; 7 Feminist Straws in the Wind; 8 Activism in the 1970s; 9 The Women's Movement at Utah State University; 10 The Widening Reach of the Women's Movement; 11 The University, Women, and History; 12 Gathering Up Loose Ends; Appendix: The Life and Career of Wynne Thorne; Postscript: What Became of the Children?; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
