Feminism Unfinished

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 ...

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 ...