By Carol Downer American society seems surprised and shocked that Janay Rice decided to not leave her boyfriend, Ray Rice. Anti-rape feminists in the ’70s knew why a woman stays with an abusive boyfriend or husband. It is the male-dominated…
Month: September 2014
The Awful Truth: Miss America Is Back and Women’s Liberation Has Gone Missing
By Carol Hanisch The protest of the Miss America Pageant in 1968 was the opening militant “shot heard round the world” beginning a brief era of the fight against male supremacy by the newly emerging Women’s Liberation Movement. Since then,…