Birth Strike, The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work by Jenny Brown Reviewed by Colette Price When a woman gives birth, she goes into labor, it’s work, usually hard work. At the end she delivers the product, a baby. It’s…
Category: Consciousness Raising
Into the 2018 Women’s Liberation Freedom Trash Can
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Women’s Liberation Protest of the Miss America Pageant on September 7, 1968, we invited women to throw what is oppressing them in 2018 into the Freedom Trash Can. The 1968 protest was about…
An Invitation to Commemorate the 1968 Miss America Protest
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…
Women’s Liberation Pioneer Anne Forer Pyne • 1945-2018
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,…
Birth Regret: A Mother’s Day Truthtelling
A Consciousness-Raising Discussion about Motherhood and Birth Regret The public is often harangued with stories of supposed “abortion regret”. A recent on-line discussion resulted with its opposite: birth regret. Women discuss their often mixed feelings about having given birth —…
A Letter from France
INTRO The following is from a response from a Meeting Ground reader in France. Much of what she writes about the situation there is similar to what we have been experiencing in the United States with the feminist movement, the…
Were the “Second Wave” and “The Personal Is Political” Racist?
By Carol Hanisch A little over ten years ago, from May 26 through June 11, 2006, “The ‘Second Wave’ and Beyond” website hosted a special on-line forum among scholars and activists around my article “The Personal is Political” and its…
It’s What You’re PAID, Not What You EARN!
by Carol Hanisch As long as jobs pay poverty wages, the people who work those jobs will be poor. As the argument grinds on about the minimum wage and • whether $12 is too much (as most Republicans and many…
Interview with Carol Hanisch
The following is an excerpt of a 2013 interview of Carol Hanisch by Gabrielle Tree for her blog, Menantum, which unfortunately is no longer available. GT: How did you become associated with the famous feminist phrase: “the personal is…
Julie Bindel on Identity Politics
SHORT TAKES: February 13, 2016 By Kathy Scarbrough From a BATTLE OF IDEAS panel “The Personal Is Political: Is Identity Politics Eating Itself?” Julie Bindel sums up quite well, and with humor, what The Personal is Political means and how…