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melissa basso

Sexism's Puzzling Stamina - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • raptly awaited decisions about affirmative action and gay marriage
  • gender — and all the recent reminders of how often women are still victimized, how potently they’re still resented and how tenaciously a musty male chauvinism endures.
  • We’re congratulating ourselves on the historic high of 20 women in the Senate, even though there are still four men to every one of them and, among governors, nine men to every woman.
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  • The idea that professional and domestic concerns can’t be balanced isn’t confined to the tube. A recent Pew Research Center report showing that women had become the primary providers in 40 percent of American households with at least one child under 18 prompted the conservative commentators Lou Dobbs and Erick Erickson to fret, respectively, over the dissolution of society and the endangerment of children.
  • The country is now on its third attempt at a commercially viable women’s soccer league. The Women’s National Basketball Association lags far behind the men’s N.B.A. in visibility and revenue.
  • Our racial bigotry has often been tied to the ignorance abetted by unfamiliarity, our homophobia to a failure to realize how many gay people we know and respect.
  • women are in the next cubicle, across the dinner table, on the other side of the bed. Almost every man has a mother he has known and probably cared about; most also have a wife, daughter, sister, aunt or niece as well. Our stubborn sexism harms and holds back them, not strangers. Still it survives.
Janet Thomas

Women overlooked in civil rights movement - US news - Life - Race & ethnicity | NBC News - 1 views

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  • Janet Thomas on 10 Sep 13
     
    This page on the NBC news website offers a surprising twist to the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It brings up a great point, why is Rosa Parks one of the only women we know about as an icon of that era? Racial equality was being fought for by those in the Civil Rights movement but what about gender equality? This story gives us more to think about when we look at the image of Rosa Parks and the white man on the bus.
melissa basso

A brief history of the Gay Liberation Front, 1970-73 | libcom.org - 0 views

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  • On the 27th June, 1969 as part of its policy of raiding and closing Gay Bars, the New York Police arrived at the Stonewall Inn to rough up the customers
  • riot that spread throughout the West Village,
  • moved to the Alternative University in Greenwich Village where they founded what became the Gay Liberation Front.
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  • 13th October, 1970
  • “Not only did liberationists go to Philadelphia to show solidarity with the black movement, but it was there that Huey Newton as leader of the Panthers, first gave clear support of the Gay Cause, saying that homosexuals were maybe the most oppressed people of American society, and could well be the most revolutionary.”1
  • Psychiatric Establishments wholesale acceptance of Judeo Christian prejudice, Biblical authority, and the use of electric shock/emetic drug programmes on gays and lesbians who did not fit in, or who were found guilty of breaking the law
  • In December the GLF Demands & Principles were agreed on, and in October of ’71 the publication of the GLF Manifesto. “Gay shows the way. In some ways we are already outside the family and we have already, in part at least, rejected the ‘masculine’ or ‘feminine’ role society has designed for us. In a society dominated by the sexist culture it is very difficult, if not impossible, for heterosexual men and women to escape their rigid gender-role structuring and the roles of oppressor and oppressed.
  • In July ’72 the first Gay Pride march left Trafalgar Square and marched to Hyde Park for the Gay Pride Party, with over a thousand in attendance, and accompanied by two thousand police.
  • In February ’72 the women formally split from gay lib.
  • Overwhelmed in numbers and ignored by gay men generally, they decided to work separately.
  • melissa basso on 04 Nov 13
     
    The stories surrounding gay liberation, protests and marches that set the platform for gay and lesbian acceptance. 
Alexa Mason

The Three Waves of Feminism - Fall 2008 - PACIFIC Magazine - Pacific University - 1 views

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  • The first wave of feminism took place in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, emerging out of an environment of urban industrialism and liberal, socialist politics. The goal of this wave was to open up opportunities for women, with a focus on suffrage.
  • Whereas the first wave of feminism was generally propelled by middle class white women, the second phase drew in women of color and developing nations, seeking sisterhood and solidarity and claiming "Women's struggle is class struggle." Feminists spoke of women as a social class and coined phrases such as "the personal is political" and "identity politics" in an effort to demonstrate that race, class, and gender oppression are all related. They initiated a concentrated effort to rid society top-to-bottom of sexism, from children's cartoons to the highest levels of government.
  • sexuality and reproductive rights were dominant issues, and much of the movement's energy was focused on passing the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution guaranteeing social equality regardless of sex.
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  • The second wave began in the 1960s and continued into the 90's. This wave unfolded in the context of the anti-war and civil rights movements and the growing self-consciousness of a variety of minority groups around the world.
  • n this phase many constructs have been destabilized, including the notions of "universal womanhood," body, gender, sexuality and hetreronormativity. An aspect of third phase feminism that mystifies the mothers of the earlier feminist movement is the readoption by young feminists of the very lip-stick, high-heals, and cleavage proudly exposed by low cut necklines that the first two phases of the movement identified with male oppression. Pinkfloor expressed this new position when she said; "It's possible to have a push-up bra and a brain at the same time.
  • third wave have stepped onto the stage as strong and empowered, eschewing victimization and defining feminine beauty for themselves as subjects, not as objects of a sexist patriarchy
  • Alexa Mason on 05 Nov 13
     
    This webpage explores the three waves of feminism. The first is the one that we usually think of when we think about early feminism, Rosie the Riveter, yes we can and suffrage. The second wave coincided with many other civil rights activist groups, we saw the introduction of women of color and lower class women. We saw a focus on family, sexuality and reproductive rights. The third, and current, wave is about defining roles and identities for themselves and not based on patriarchy or misogyny. It's okay to embrace sexuality, sexualized appearances, etc, as long as it's a choice and not forced.
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