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The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote. [1] The rally was sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Dewey Decimal. 335/.83 20. LC Class. HX843.7.H64 A3 1971a. Steal This Book is a book written by Abbie Hoffman. Written in 1970 and published in 1971, the book exemplified the counterculture of the sixties. The book sold more than a quarter of a million copies between April and November 1971. [2] The number of copies that were stolen is unknown.
The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included putting symbolic feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk, including bras, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, false ...
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
ISBN. 0-89608-129-X. Ain't I a Woman? Black Women and Feminism is a 1981 book by bell hooks titled after Sojourner Truth 's "Ain't I a Woman?" speech. hooks examines the effect of racism and sexism on black women, the civil rights movement, and feminist movements from suffrage to the 1970s. She argues that the convergence of sexism and racism ...
Omvedt was involved in Dalit and anti-caste movements, environmental, farmers' and women's movements, especially with rural women. Omvedt's dissertation was titled Cultural Revolt in a Colonial Society: The Non-Brahman Movement in Western India, 1873-1930. Omvedt's academic writing includes numerous books and articles on class, caste and gender ...
Tennessee: Married women are given the right to own and manage property in their own name during the incapacity of their spouse. [4] 1839. Mississippi: The Married Women's Property Act 1839 grants married women the right to own (but not control) property in her own name. [10] 1840.
Spouse. Ellen Levine. . . ( m. 2011; died 2012) . Anne Koedt (born 1941) [1] is an American radical feminist activist and author of "The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm", [2] a 1970 classic feminist work on women's sexuality. [1] She was connected to the group New York Radical Women and was a founding member of New York Radical Feminists.