| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Judith Ezekiel. Feminism in the Heartland. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 2002. Pp. xxii, 339. Cloth $65.00, paper $24.95.
In spite of the vast amount of literature on the so-called "second wave" feminism of the 1960s and 1970s, which includes surveys, memoirs, collected essays, and theoretical analyses, there are very few studies of the women's movement in smaller cities. Judith Ezekiel has written just such a study of feminism in Dayton, Ohio, based on local archival materials and oral histories. Careful not to generalize beyond her evidence, Ezekiel nevertheless revises some of our prevailing notions about second-wave feminism.	1
The author examines four distinct, chronologically overlapping women's organizations that were central to the Dayton women's movement during the 1970s. The first, Dayton Women's Liberation, was begun by a group of white women in their twenties and thirties. Their foundation was the consciousness-raising group; they eventually focused on mobilizing other women around women's issues. Although some of the feminists in the organization were lesbians, sexual preference was not a divisive issue.	2
Dayton Women's Liberation spun off the Dayton Women's Center, an institution that would soon eclipse the original organization. Activists involved with the center tended to be younger, unmarried, more educated women who often had a socialist feminist orientation. Operated by both a policy-making collective and a small paid staff, the center offered classes, referrals, and feminist therapy and served as a clearing house. However, the deteriorating economy, internal conflicts, and the mainstreaming of services such as rape counseling, career development, and battered women's protection caused the ultimate demise of the center in 1980.	. . .

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