Blair explores feminist activism at the local level during a critical period of social transformation, showing how a multifaceted women's movement of white, African American, and Hispanic women worked together to bring about tremendous changes in the 1970s.

In the 1970s the women's movement created tremendous changes in the lives of women throughout the US. Millions of women participated in a movement that fundamentally altered the country's ideas about how women could and should contribute to American society. Revolutionizing Expectations tells the story of some of those women, many of whom took part in the movement in unexpected ways.