Dawn Keetley is assistant professor of English at Lehigh University. John Pettegrew is associate professor of history at Lehigh University.

This final volume in the Public Women, Public Wordsseries focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s, reflects the unprecedented range of women's issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond, and looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.