Feminism :: Women's Liberation
Women's Liberation is hard-earned. It took the continual efforts of courageous women throughout the centuries to get us where we are today. Let's remember our path. Let's continue the effort towards equality and freedom.
Pick My Campaign Song: Round 2
America finally has a woman running for president and an African-American male, both firsts for the nation. Hillary Clinton's campaign has turned to YouTube users, singers for help. She asks the American people to help choose her campaign song. She shows some selections, the bad and the good. Whether you are Hillary fan or not, she represents an important possibility for women to preside over the nation and excel in roles of leadership. More important than choosing Clinton's campaign song is to remember to vote. We need to support women in power so that more women can get in power.
Anarchist Emma Goldman
Anarchist, political radical, Emma Goldman escaped an arranged marriage by threatening to drown herself. She left Russia to come to New York. The Anarchist Movement talked about equality for everyone, regardless of creed or sex and equal education, free production of goods, and getting rid of the state.
Emma Goldman spoke of her ideals, anarchism, it combines optimism of human nature with distrust of authority. It is a new social order. Government replaced by free cooperation. She talked about insurrection. She was a true revolutionary. Goldman has much to teach us about independent thinking and courageous action.
Katie Couric's Notebook: Harvard's First Female President
Drew Gilpin Faust, civil war historian, was named first female president of Havard University. With Brown, Penn, and Princeton already have female presidents. Katie Couric believes that women in power create more powerful women. They set examples for future generations to look up to and follow.
Women's Equality Video 2007
This video juxtaposes old images with more contemporary images of women. It asks, "Things are so much better now ... right?" Advertising of women as sexual objects to sell. Some things have changed. With black-and-white photographs and quotes from famous feminist theorists, it illustrates its point.
"Being oppressesd means the absence of choice," said bell hooks.
Women's Liberation Posters 1960
Without Women's Liberation, we would not enjoy the freedom and equality that we do today. These posters from the 1960s reveal the relevant issues of the day, such as "Rape is War," "Midwest Lesbian Conference," "Women in Sports," "Together," "Don't Call Me Girl," "Liberation School for Women," "Wollstonecraft - Shelley," "Women Working," "Abortion is a Personal Decision, Not a Legal Debate," "Women are not Chicks," "Women Declare War on Rape," and "Economic Justic for Women, Equal Jobs, Good Childcare."
These issues identified in the 1960s still speak to women today. Our foremothers have done much to bring us sexual freedom and economic and political equality. Let's keep the fight going.