Feminism Unfinished

place they could go with their children—and few mothers were willing to leave marriages without their ch ...

Leaflet by Women Office Workers of New York, 1979. The feminist impact against rape may well have been ev ...

Women’s liberation’s impact on bodies was probably strongest not in struggling against harm but in working for h ...

discrimination, and an abuse of human rights. These bills provided that those who claimed to be harmed by p ...

But 1970s feminism also involved rethinking and redefining what counted as work. The notion that women wer ...

out-of-home employment and did not offer support for the welfare rights movement. By contrast, many poor lone mot ...

employed. With aspirations raised by the women’s movement, they made gains because they used the anti- di ...

reflected, first, interrelated and quite possibly inseparable demands for tangible gains and respectful treatment ...

movement did not make a major dent in the childcare problem, and low-wage women workers cannot usually a ...

The Fat Chance Performance Group, celebrating “real” women’s bodies. Photograph by Cathy Cade, courtesy of the Banc ...

Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 1972–73. Photograph by Virginia Blaisdell. Television incorporated some femin ...

muralists working in the Southwest: Judy Baca, Barbara Carrasco, Sonya Fe, Carmen Lomas Garza, Ester Hernández, ...

One of the most enduring material achievements of 1970s feminism is Ms. magazine, founded and symbolized ...

Vivian Gornick, The Solitude of Self: Thinking About Elizabeth Cady Stanton (New York: Farrar, Straus ...

March for Women’s Lives, Washington D.C., April 2004. Photograph by Nikki Kahn, Getty Images. ...

3 FROM A MINDSET TO A MOVEMENT FEMINISM SINCE 1990 by Astrid Henry In the fall of 1991, Rebecca Walker, daug ...

openly challenging Anita Hill’s testimony–was composed entirely of white men. These senators had little g ...

postfeminism feminist. I am the Third Wave.” As she would later reflect, “Hill’s courage made me write th ...

with feminism all around her; in her writing, she regularly described feminism as being like a kind ...

rights. Walker’s activism in the early 1990s also demonstrated her complex relationship with the prior ge ...