Graduates of a 1970s training program for women demonstrated that
they had expanded the social change and voluntarism agenda of their
earlier training to incorporate feminism and personal action in the
workplace. These women were active professionals espousing personal
achievement and individual voluntarism, yet they had forsworn col
lective action. They mirror the oddity of American feminism in defin
ing even social change in individualistic terms.
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