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Feminist Revolution
A history and analysis of key issues in the rebirth years of the Women's Liberation Movement embodying the principle of radical history--that of seeing our own personal and political experience as history and drawing lessons from it and other movements for future actions. Editors: Kathie Sarachild, Carol Hanisch, Faye Levine, Barbara Leon, Colette Price. Censored
(In this edition, Random House removed the material accusing Gloria Steinman of collaborating with the U.S. CIA against European left feminists.)
Quotes from Feminist Revolution:
"Shulamith Firestone, in the women's liberation movement's first theoretical journal Notes . . . wrote about the process of the feminists in general and the radicals in particular being written out of the history of the last century . . . Already the radical women who initiated the [present] movement's theory, organizing ideas, and slogans have been buried from public consciousness and the liberals have taken over, claiming credit for the radicals' achievements. If this goes on much longer feminism will go under once again and we will lose almost all of what we have gained in the last years--both the radical consciousness and many of the practical reforms. It won't be long now until the liberals will be gone, too."
--Kathie Sarachild, "The Power of History," Feminist Revolution
"Though their reasons varied. . . radical women clearly differentiated their idea of separatism from the old concept and practice of sexually segregated groups. The separatism they espoused was to be only a means for ending the age-old problem of sexual segregation and the inequality it spawned. . . . The purpose was always integration with equality. . . The separatist independent women's liberation movement actually began to fight in many concrete ways to implement this kind of radical feminist integration. The fight for the right to abortions, after all, was a fight for sexual relations with men-but on an equal basis. The fight to get men to share the housework was another essentially integrationist fight from a growing power base of the women's liberation movement, as was the fight for child care centers."
--Barbara Leon, "Separate To Integrate," in Feminist Revolution
(In this edition, Random House removed the material accusing Gloria Steinman of collaborating with the U.S. CIA against European left feminists.)
Quotes from Feminist Revolution:
"Shulamith Firestone, in the women's liberation movement's first theoretical journal Notes . . . wrote about the process of the feminists in general and the radicals in particular being written out of the history of the last century . . . Already the radical women who initiated the [present] movement's theory, organizing ideas, and slogans have been buried from public consciousness and the liberals have taken over, claiming credit for the radicals' achievements. If this goes on much longer feminism will go under once again and we will lose almost all of what we have gained in the last years--both the radical consciousness and many of the practical reforms. It won't be long now until the liberals will be gone, too."
--Kathie Sarachild, "The Power of History," Feminist Revolution
"Though their reasons varied. . . radical women clearly differentiated their idea of separatism from the old concept and practice of sexually segregated groups. The separatism they espoused was to be only a means for ending the age-old problem of sexual segregation and the inequality it spawned. . . . The purpose was always integration with equality. . . The separatist independent women's liberation movement actually began to fight in many concrete ways to implement this kind of radical feminist integration. The fight for the right to abortions, after all, was a fight for sexual relations with men-but on an equal basis. The fight to get men to share the housework was another essentially integrationist fight from a growing power base of the women's liberation movement, as was the fight for child care centers."
--Barbara Leon, "Separate To Integrate," in Feminist Revolution
224 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1978
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September 28, 2022
"Sisters in the socialist struggle ,raise your heads ! We are fighting to create a society where we can all flourish.The struggle is long and hard and needs everything and every head. It is time that we recognize that the revolution cannot be won without women.How many times have we fought side by side with men, only to be shuttled aside in the victory? But we have fought and the struggle to raise the consciousness of our oppression and recognize our revolutionary potential supports all liberation struggles.
What divides is not the fight against sexism,it is sexism itself. Sexism dooms half our fighting forces to the stove when the other half picks up the rifle, to the mimeograph machine while they lead the march."
very refreshing to read about the history of feminism in the United States especially of radical feminism and how it was overtaken by liberals like gloria Steinem and the likes of her and the attack from the US Left to radical feminists.
What divides is not the fight against sexism,it is sexism itself. Sexism dooms half our fighting forces to the stove when the other half picks up the rifle, to the mimeograph machine while they lead the march."
very refreshing to read about the history of feminism in the United States especially of radical feminism and how it was overtaken by liberals like gloria Steinem and the likes of her and the attack from the US Left to radical feminists.
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