An interview with Carol Hanisch by FRESA in Chile . The Interview FRESA: In 2011, you wrote an article for On The Issues Magazine, called “Women’s Liberation: Looking Back, Looking Forward”. In one of the paragraphs about “the feminist bandwagon”,…
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“The Whole Feminist Theory Upside Down”
An Interview with Carol Hanisch by Ksenija Kordic and other members of Femrevolt in Croatia In the past two years, interview requests and articles have come from radical feminist writers and actitivist groups in Brazil, Portugal, Croatia and Chile. From the exchanges…
Whatever Happened to Radical Feminism?
An Interview by Brazilian Radical Feminist Aline Rossi with Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough Brazilian radical feminist Aline Rossi recently interviewed Meeting Ground editors and long-time activists Carol Hanisch and Kathy Scarbrough for her Portuguese-language blog Feminismo Com Classe .…
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,…
The “Burial of Traditional Womanhood” • January 15, 1968
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…
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…
An Historical Reminder: “Separate to Integrate”
Editors’ Introduction: The following article was written by Barbara Leon for Feminist Revolution, a book first published in 1975 by Redstockings analyzing the gains and setbacks, theory and history of the Women’s Liberation Movement in its explosive years in the…