Feminism in the United States
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Sontag's cool exile was a disaster for the American women's movement. Only a woman of her prestige could have performed the necessary critique and debunking of the first instant-canon feminist screeds, such as those of Kate Millett or Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar, whose middlebrow mediocrity crippled women's studies from the start. No patriarchal villains held Sontag back; her failures are her own."--"Sontag, Bloody Sontag," Camille Paglia |
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The phrase "Women's Liberation" was first used in the United States in 1964 and first appeared in print in 1966. By 1968, although the term Women’s Liberation Front appeared in the magazine Ramparts, it was starting to refer to the whole women’s movement. Bra-burning also became associated with the movement. One of the most vocal critics of the women's liberation movement has been bell hooks, who argues that the movement's glossing over of race and class was part of its failure to address "the issues that divided women". She has highlighted the lack of minority voices in the women's movement.
See also
- Anti-Flirt Club
- Bluestockings (bookstore)
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
- HerChurch
- Jessie Bernard Award
- Kentucky Foundation for Women
- No More Miss America
- Margaret Sanger Clinic
- Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Votes for Women (speech)
- Women in the United States judiciary
- Women's Brigade of Weather Underground
- Women's Prison Association
- Women's Rights Law Reporter
- Women's Voices Women Vote
- Year of the Woman
- List of feminists
- List of feminism topics