Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The historian Lisa Levenstein said that, in the late 1970s, the feminist movement briefly attempted a program to help older divorced and widowed women. [48] Many widows were ineligible for Social Security benefits, few divorcees received alimony , and, after a career as a housewife, few had any work skills with which to enter the labor force.
The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.
Aileen Hernandez (née Clarke; May 23, 1926 – February 13, 2017) was an African-American union organizer, civil rights activist, and women's rights activist. She served as the president of the National Organization for Women (NOW) between 1970 and 1971, and was the first woman to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Las Adelitas de Aztlán was a short-lived Mexican American female civil rights organization that was created by Gloria Arellanes and Gracie and Hilda Reyes in 1970. Gloria Arellanes and Gracie and Hilda Reyes were all former members of the Brown Berets, another Mexican American Civil rights organization that had operated concurrently during the 1960s and 1970s in the California area.
Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah Ponsonby: Ireland: 1755: 1831: One of the Ladies of Llangollen [28] 1700–1799: Mary Shelley: United Kingdom: 1797: 1851: Early pioneer feminist [35] 1700–1799: Maria Engelbrecht Stokkenbech: Denmark: 1759: after 1806: Dressed as a man to be able to work ...
Emily Parmely Collins (1814–1909) – in South Bristol, New York, 1848, was the first woman in the U.S. to establish a society focused on woman suffrage and women's rights. [40] Helen Appo Cook (1837–1913) – prominent African American community activist and leader in the women's club movement. [41] [42]
"Rights of Women: The Substance of a Lecture Delivered by John Neal at the Tabernacle", John Neal (1843) [4] The Great Lawsuit, Margaret Fuller (1843) [8] Brief History of the Condition of Women: in Various Ages and Nations, Volume 2, Lydia Maria Child (1845) [9] "The Rights and Condition of Women", Samuel May (1845) [10]
During the protest multiple women were arrested and Kennedy took on their cases as their attorney. [15] In the 1970s Kennedy traveled the lecture circuit with writer Gloria Steinem. If a man asked the pair if they were lesbians – a stereotype of feminists at the time – Kennedy would quote Ti-Grace Atkinson and answer, "Are you my alternative?"