50 years ago Women’s Liberation protested the Miss America Pageant and threw “items of female torture” into a Freedom Trash Can What do YOU want to toss into the 2018 Freedom Trash Can? On September 7, 1968, more than…
Consciousness Raising, History, Women's Liberation / Feminism
Women’s Liberation Pioneer Anne Forer Pyne • 1945-2018
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The Women’s Liberation Movement has lost another of its early pioneers with the passing of Anne Forer Pyne in Arizona on March 21. We reprint below some of her words which are still significant and inspiring to our struggle. Anne,…
History, Principles of Struggle, Taking Action, Theory, Women's Liberation / Feminism
The “Burial of Traditional Womanhood” • January 15, 1968
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Commemorating 50 Years of “Sisterhood Is Powerful” by Carol Hanisch Fifty years ago, the Vietnam War was raging and so were protests against it, the intensity and scope of which would increase multifold in 1968. On the opening day of…
Housework, Reproduction, Women's Liberation / Feminism
Chilean Feminists Respond to “Birth Regret”
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Some reflections and opinions about repentance of having given birth by Feminists Lucid, Santiago, Chile September 2017 In our group we have translated the discussion about motherhood and the repentance of giving birth [Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling].…
Identity Politics, Male Backlash, Women's Liberation / Feminism
A Challenge to the (Still) Male-Dominated Left
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Who’s the Materialist Here? by Kathy Scarbrough and Carol Hanisch Nearly fifty years after the Women’s Liberation Movement exploded in the U.S., much of the male-dominated Left (including female members) is still claiming economic class and capitalism as the primary…
Theory, Women's Liberation / Feminism
Patriarchy or Male Supremacy?
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by Carol Hanisch EDITORS NOTE: Patriarchy has all but replaced male supremacy and sexism as the preferred word for the system of discrimination and multi-faceted oppression that women face. The term patriarchy wasn’t used by most 1960s pioneers of the…