Women and Public Policy, A Humanistic Perspective by Mildred H. Lavin and Clara H. Oleson, 1974

(1974) Women and Public Policy, A Humanistic Perspective by Mildred H. Lavin and Clara H. Oleson, 1974. University of Iowa

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Abstract

This volume of addresses should be viewed in the framework of discussion of women's rights issues which emerged in the late 1960s in the United States and is now continuing on various fronts from living rooms to the floors of our national legislature. The authors' writings were originally presented at a three- part symposium entitled WOMEN AND PUBLIC POLICY AND THE IOWA HUMANISTS' RESPONSE, funded by the Iowa Board for Public Programs in the Humanities, serving on behalf of the National Endowment for the Humanities. By the early 1970s writings in contemporary feminism ranged from underground newspapers to mass circulation periodicals to governmental reports . Expressive of the dissemination of information in a pluralistic society, each of these 1nediurns re£l1::cted different facets of the contemporary women' s movement. Pr edictably , individudls relying on one sou~ce of information rarely