{"product_id":"califia-women","title":"Califia Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eLaunched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia’s attempts to tie feminism to university courses, Califia blended aspects of feminism that spanned the labels “second wave” and “radical,” attracting women from a range of gender expressions, sexual orientations, class backgrounds, and races or ethnicities. \u003ci\u003eCalifia Women\u003c\/i\u003e captures the history of the organization through oral history interviews, archives, and other forms of primary research. The result is a lens for re-reading trends in feminist and social justice activism of the time period, contextualized against a growing conservative backlash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout each chapter, readers learn about the triumphs and frictions feminists encountered as they attempted to build on the achievements of the postwar Civil Rights movement. With its backdrop of southern California, the book emphasizes a region that has often been overlooked in studies of East Coast or San Francisco Bay–area activism. \u003ci\u003eCalifia Women\u003c\/i\u003e also counters the notions that radical and lesbian feminists were unwilling to address intersectional identities generally and that they withdrew from political activism after 1975. Instead, the Califia Community shows evidence that these and other feminists intentionally created an educational forum that embraced oppositional consciousness and sought to serve a variety of women, including radical Christian reformers, Wiccans, scholars of color, and GLBT activists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245551767896,"sku":"9781477302200","price":23.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781477302200_4c65f907-1f79-4847-a74c-14072828cc7c.jpg?v=1777756524","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/califia-women","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}