International Women's Year: The Greatest Consciousness-Raising Event in History

by Jocelyn Olcott

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197574742
• ISBN13: 9780197574744
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"