Feminism Unfinished

1 MORE THAN SEX EQUALITY FEMINISM AFTER SUFFRAGE Dorothy Sue Cobble Twenty-three-year-old labor organizer Myra Wol ...

Bunnies would “bite back” and challenge Hugh Hefner’s Playboy philosophy that “women should be obscene and n ...

injustices, they insisted, could the problems of the majority, men as well as women, be solved. Social just ...

father and where she met her husband. Davis had a strong anti-authoritarian streak and a habit of standing up ...

Addie Wyatt and other UPWA delegates to the 1957 NAACP convention pose with Herbert Hill, NAACP labo ...

objected to the wording of the proposed amendment. They met repeatedly with NWP leaders in 1921 and 1922, ...

1960s and beyond. The NWP’s willingness to cooperate with such allies only confirmed the beliefs of social j ...

A Jewish Lithuanian immigrant, Newman worked as a child in the garment sweatshops of New York’s East Side a ...

pressure to address economic injustice grew, spearheaded by organized labor and others, including women reform ...

fairness for women. She quit her Winsor School job and for the next few years traveled across New England orga ...

woman business manager a few years later, responsible for settling pay and other disputes for workers of all r ...

within which to justify their own demands. It offered them institutional resources. Paradoxically, when it f ...

Still, their experiences of wartime employment were not forgotten. Rosie lost her riveting job, but her sens ...

these new moms also became wage earners, without the benefits Wyatt enjoyed, the stresses of the “dou ...

women’s identity and were the source of some of women’s greatest pleasures—a legacy in part of the 1920s ...

what can be called the “masculine mystique,” or the valorizing of the qualities associated with masculinity and the ...

Beginning in 1943 and continuing into the early 1950s, left-liberal New Dealers and their allies in the labo ...

In 1947, Congress overrode President Harry Truman’s veto and passed the Taft-Hartley Act, which amende ...

The reforms social justice feminists sought in the 1940s and 1950s were more than just improvements on w ...

rated job skills and changed their policies to conform to the less biased rating systems put forward first by th ...