| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America's Second Wave. By Benita Roth. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv, 271 pp. Cloth, $65.00, ISBN 0-521-82260-2. Paper, $23.00, ISBN 0-521-52972-7.)

As Benita Roth explains in the preface to Separate Roads to Feminism, her interest in this topic emerged out of her experiences in the Boston area during the early 1980s, where she found that "in group after group, the failure of white feminism to attract women of color ... [was] often characterized as the failure of women of color to be attracted to feminism" (p. xi). Realizing that women of color eschewed all-white groups because they feared their concerns would be ignored—not because they were any less feminist than white women—Roth draws from an extensive historical record to counter what she sees as a tendency in both individual observation and academic discourse to assume that white feminism was the primary, if not the only, variant. In answer to the question of why women organized separately, Roth offers excellent statistical analyses of the different socioeconomic positions of white, black, and Chicana women in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as nuanced descriptions of their distinct feminist ideologies and organizations. Readers who are well versed in the existing historical literature may not find much that is new or surprising in this account, but scholars needing a concise yet comprehensive survey of second-wave feminism will find this book immensely useful.

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