(58) But other feminists argued that androgynous dress excluded working-class women who, as Robin Morgan put it, were "forced to wear [women's dresses] for survival." (59) "Women who work must continue to dress traditionally," one
women's liberationist acknowledged.
As Queensland-born
Women's Liberationist, Eileen Haley, explained:
Farenthold certain advantages - all of them the kind of advantages that would strike a
women's liberationist as reflections of a sexist society.
My interest in the situation arose, on the one hand, from the perspective of a
women's liberationist: How did Lenchen feel about what happened?
Caraway was not a
women's liberationist, Dougan said.
It is every suffragist and
women's liberationist who defied family, church, and community to demand equality.
British
women's liberationist and historian Sheila Rowbotham has argued that feminism proved appealing to two main groups of mothers in particular: young, middle-class, educated mothers, who resented their sense of domestic confinement; and single mothers, both middle class and working class, who were reacting against economic hardship and state harassment ("To Be or Not to Be" 83).
saw the emerging women's movement as a logical extension of Black Power's emphasis on liberation and self determination." And in bringing white
women's liberationists to the Black Power Conference, Kennedy clearly wanted the black movement to address sexism within its ranks.
"It certainly doesn't, and it isn't what
women's liberationists in the 1970s were fighting for.
On a similar theme, Benita Roth discusses the impact of the social movement environment on the reconstruction of feminist identity among
women's liberationists, detailing their struggle and ultimate failure to preserve a collective identity that included leftist men.
While Browder gives us interesting snapshots of famous and infamous women with guns--including Bonnie Parker of Bonnie and Clyde, Elaine Brown of the Black Panthers, and Carolyn Chute of the contemporary militia movement--we are not given much information about what women's gun use meant to moderate civil rights activists (or moderate racists for that matter),
women's liberationists, military employees, or regular law-abiding citizens.
women's liberationist - a supporter of feminism