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To many women activists in the American Indian Movement, black Civil Rights Movement, Chicana Movement, as well as Asians and other minorities, the activities of the primarily white, middle-class women in the women's liberation movement were focused specifically on sex-based violence and the social construction of gender as a tool of sex-based ...
Ebba von Eckermann (1866–1960) – women's rights activist; Ruth Gustafson (1881–1960) – politician, trade unionist, women's rights activist, editor; Anna Hierta-Retzius (1841–1924) – women's rights activist and philanthropist; Lilly Engström (1843–1921) – women's rights activist, government official
The Women's Liberation Movement in Canada derived from the anti-war movement, Native Rights Movement [1] and the New Left student movement of the 1960s. An increase in university enrollment, sparked by the post-World War II baby boom, created a student body which believed that they could be catalysts for social change.
These three generations of Black women activists — Mary-Pat Hector, 26; Melanie Campbell, 61; Judy Richardson, 80 — use different tactics and strategies, but all work to register communities ...
IN FOCUS: When Daisy Boulton stumbled across ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’, a son’s book exploring the life and suicide of his mother, she felt an overwhelming connection. Helen Coffey talks ...
The first activist to self-immolate on American soil in protest of the Vietnam war. [6] Amy Swerdlow, helped organize the movement and was a founding member who later went on to write the book: Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s, which was published by the University of Chicago press in 1993. [24]
In the subsequent decades women's rights again became an important issue in the English-speaking world. By the 1960s the movement was called "feminism" or "women's liberation." Reformers wanted the same pay as men, equal rights in law, and the freedom to plan their families or not have children at all. Their efforts were met with mixed results ...
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955.