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July 27, 2020 by admin
Feminism and Its Backlash: The Real Events of “Mrs. America”
This multi-part made-for-TV documentary series that debuted Spring 2020 spotlights a generation of women who brought lasting change to the world. Think of women’s lives before the advent of second-wave feminism in the late 1960s and early 1970s! Lilith photographer Joan Roth was onsite for many of this era’s feminist conferences, and its backlash gatherings too; the “Mrs.” of the series’ title is Phyllis Schlafly, anti-feminist right-winger. Designated heroes included Betty Friedan, labeled the mother of the movement and author of The Feminine Mystique, the book that Gloria Steinem confesses—to Friedan, during one episode—changed her life; and Bella Abzug, nicknamed “Battling Bella,” U.S. Congresswoman (1971–73). The series also foregrounds Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman in Congress (1968), and the first woman and first African American to seek the nomination for president. The iconic images here are just a small sample from Roth’s extraordinary photo archives.
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Shirley Chisholm, the first African American woman in Congress (1968) and the first woman and African American to seek the nomination for president
Betty Friedan signing the renewed Declaration of Sentiments at Seneca Falls, September, 1977.
Bella Abzug passes the Olympic Torch to First Ladies at the National Women’s Conference, Houston, Texas
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May 21, 2020 by Joan Roth
Original Pictures from the Real Events of “Mrs. America.”
Imagine America today, if only one women’s movement had arisen, instead of two…What the full power of womanhood might have wrought.
In July 1977, Harriet Lyons, then-editor at Ms. Magazine, and I attended the New York State women’s meeting in Albany, New York, in order to cast our vote for delegates to the first ever National Women’s Convention, funded by the federal government, that was to be held the following November at the University of Houston, in Texas. It was during this awesome moment that Bella was having one of her major fits, another friend recalls. Something triggered it–perhaps the selection of delegates.
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November 6, 2018 by Aileen Jacobson
Gloria Steinem’s Life, Onstage
(L-R) Joanna Glushak, Fedna Jacquet, Francesca Fernandez McKenzie, Christine Lahti, Patrena Murray, DeLanna Studi, and Liz Wisan in GLORIA: A Life by Emily Mann, directed by Diane Paulus, at the Daryl Roth Theatre. Photo © Joan Marcus.
As I entered a Midtown Manhattan building a couple of years ago, I spotted a slim familiar-looking woman with blond hair rushing out. Wide-eyed, I asked the two thirty-something security guards–one male, one female–“Was that Gloria Steinem?”
They replied, “Who’s Gloria Steinem?”
A few days later, I related my astonishment about the guards’ reaction to two other thirty-somethings–one male, one female–whom I know to be college-educated, media savvy and squarely in favor of equality for women.
They, too, asked, “Who’s Gloria Steinem?”
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