Feminism Unfinished

The commission would study “not just the legal status but the general status” of women, inaugurate a broad pu ...

throughout the 1950s and would culminate in confrontations over equal pay and civil rights legislation in the e ...

white women. After the animal had been killed, cut into sections, and cleaned, white women trimmed the meat ...

Caroline Davis (far left), Lillian Hatcher (standing), and William Oliver of the UAW Fair Practices Department ...

Lillian Hatcher with a group of UAW volunteers during the 1960 presidential election. Archives of Labor ...

coordination and the drafting of the commission’s final report, she turned once again to Kitty Ellickson, w ...

systems of exclusion.)^29 Nevertheless, as the new feminist movement took up the ERA mantle in the 1970s, the c ...

convention’s international norm in its own domestic equal pay legislation. In 1962, as the labor-backed equ ...

southern conservative from Virginia and a sponsor of the ERA since 1945, introduced an amendment to what ...

Oregon and perpetual sponsor of equal pay legislation. She favored women’s rights but opposed the sex amendment beca ...

women’s rights was just as evident: proposals from the national and state commissions on the status of women ...

Addie Wyatt too embraced the new women’s movement, joining NOW early on and, in 1974, founding the Coalitio ...

raising the minimum wage, and held aloft a tattered Woolworth’s bra. She was speaking not just for Woolwort ...

Wyatt, “ ‘An Injury to One Is an Injury to All,’ ” 29. Cobble, The Other Women’s Movement, 106. Cobble, The Ot ...

Stewardesses on strike against TWA, 1970. Photograph by Cathy Cade, courtesy of the Bancroft Library, ...

2 THE WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT Linda Gordon The young feminists’ protest at the 1968 Miss America contest sym ...

Cartoonist and date unknown. Many writers have labeled the protest at the 1968 Miss America beauty pageant as ...

The National Welfare Rights Organization, established in 1966, was equally part of the civil rights and women’s m ...

Vancouver, Canada. Most members of women’s liberation opposed the U.S. intervention in Vietnam (and later Camb ...

magazine. Taking on her mother’s Anglo maiden name, Sutherland, because she knew she would be unable to get a ...