Feminism Unfinished

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 ...

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 ...