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The Women's Trade Union League worked closely with the Chicago Women's Club in organizing the strike, picket lines, speeches, and worker relief activities. Helen Todd and the president of the Women's Trade Union League Margaret Robins made a number of speeches during the strike and manned with the thousands of striking garment workers the ...
Poetry readings became spaces for feminists to come together in cities and in rural communities, and talk about sexuality, women's roles, and the possibilities beyond heteronormative life. [55] Figures like Judy Grahn were figureheads for the women's movement, providing electrifying readings that enlivened and inspired audiences. [55]
Adrienne Cecile Rich (/ ˈ æ d r i ə n / AD-ree-ən; May 16, 1929 – March 27, 2012) was an American poet, essayist and feminist.She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", [1] [2] and was credited with bringing "the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse". [3]
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Parker gave her first public poetry reading in 1963 in Oakland. In 1968, she began to read her poetry to women's groups at women's bookstores, coffeehouses and feminist events. [18] Judy Grahn, a fellow poet and a personal friend, identifies Pat Parker's poetry as a part of the "continuing Black tradition of radical poetry". [19]
Endorsing Women's Enfranchisement, Adelle Hazlett (1871) [38] Hit: Essays on Women's Rights, Mary Edwards Walker (1871) On the Progress of Education and Industrial Avocations for Women, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1871) [39] "Put Us In Your Place" from The Revolution, Lillie Blake (1871) [40] On Woman's Right to Suffrage, Susan B. Anthony (1872) [41]
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 ...
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.