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1970: Suffragette, feminist; human rights campaigner; influential in labour rights and early days of UN: 1875–1939: Louisa Strittmater: United States: 1896: 1944: Feminist whose division of her estate to the National Woman's Party as listed in her will was controversially contested. [102] 1875–1939: Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill ...
Feminist activists have established a range of feminist businesses, including women's bookstores, feminist credit unions, feminist presses, feminist mail-order catalogs, feminist restaurants, and feminist record labels. These businesses flourished as part of the second and third waves of feminism in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. [89] [90]
American feminist Toni Cade Bambara published The Black Woman. [57] On August 26, 1970, the 50th anniversary of woman suffrage in the U.S., tens of thousands of women across the nation participated in the Women's Strike for Equality, organized by Betty Friedan and thought up by Betty Jameson Armistead to demand equal rights. [58] [59]
By the mid-1970s, the women's liberation movement had been effective in changing the worldwide perception of women, bringing sexism to light and moving reformists far to the left in their policy aims for women, [120] but in the haste to distance themselves from the more radical elements, liberal feminists attempted to erase their success and ...
Jessie Street (1889–1970) – Australian suffragette, feminist and human rights campaigner influential in labour rights and early days of the UN Anne Summers (born 1945) – women's rights activist in politics and media, women's advisor to Labor premier Paul Keating , editor of Ms. magazine (NY)
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By the 1970s and 1980s, African-American women had developed a social consciousness by publicly voicing dissatisfaction with black women's representation in feminist discourse. [94] In 1981, feminist and essayist Audre Lorde stated: "What woman here is so enamored of her own oppression that she cannot see her heel print upon another woman's ...
The Dialectic of Sex (1970) Speculum of the Other Woman (1974) This Sex Which is Not One (1977) Gyn/Ecology (1978) Throwing Like a Girl (1980) In a Different Voice (1982) The Politics of Reality (1983) Women, Race, and Class (1983) Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center (1984) The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Toward a Feminist Theory of the ...