Rhode lists and examines the roots and effects of the highlights of the feminist movement in the 20th century. Two major catalysts are identified as the creation of a national Commission on the Status of Women and the addition of a ban on sex discrimination to the 1964 Civil Rights Act. She compares the growth of feminism in the 1960’s with the first women’s rights campaign a century earlier. Rhode also explores the side factions of the feminist movement: radical feminism, racial feminism, and social/Marxist feminism.
