No Wave

"'Feminism Unfinished,' however, argues that the 'wave' metaphor obscures the history of a continuous American women's movement sustained by labor activists, civil rights advocates and ­social-reform campaigners, who may have looked placid on the surface but were paddling like hell underneath."


Elaine Showalter in The Washington Post reviews Dorothy Sue Cobble, Linda Gordon, and Astrid Henry's Feminism Unfinished: A Short, Surprising History of American Women’s Movements.