Feminism Unfinished

AFL-CIO. In 2003, she founded Working America, the community affiliate of the AFL-CIO, representing workers who ...

“Breaking Out,” 1970, author unknown. The consciousness-raising route to change involved opening up to a sma ...

the younger women first grasped and exposed the ubiquitousness of the relationships, both public and personal, that ...

to find myself. tomorrow perhaps i will begin to find you.^10 They were making themselves the heroes of their ...

The single most important feminist theoretical contribution to social theory was the concept of gender, i.e., ...

sexism: that is, discrimination against women did not necessarily arise from sexist or misogynist attitudes but fr ...

created ruthlessness; they pointed to Margaret Thatcher, the 1980s British prime minister, as Exhibit A, becau ...

Race, Class and Feminism By the late 1970s, many of these differences came to seem trivial—a remnant of ...

sometimes took the form of armed posturing, beginning with a notorious march on the state capitol in S ...

A Boston demonstration, 1979, led by the Combahee River Collective. Photograph by Ellen Shub. The development of ...

color moving into their neighborhoods. In fact, conservative women modeled some of their tactics on femin ...

degree of nationalism in the New Left group they were embedded in: Asian American women had an easier t ...

race and sex inequality are far greater: almost all women live with and love men, as fathers, brothers ...

Anti–Vietnam War leaflet, 1970, Bread and Roses. In all these movements, men dominated the leadership (though ...

nature. Many flocked to organizations fighting nuclear power, such as the Clamshell Alliance. African American ...

productive bursts of creativity. Small groups could engender quick decision making and action. They could dre ...

extend the minimum wage law to domestic workers. An expert on child welfare and education, she was responsible ...

abortion. Between about 1840 and 1890, all U.S. states banned all methods of reproduction control, and in ...

remained were heroes indeed. Anti-abortion advocates also labeled abortion rights as a white people’s ...

Soon these activists formed a national organization, the Committee for Abortion Rights and Against Steriliz ...