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Why Write Women's History?

Nancy Rubin Stuart | Posted 05.07.2013 | Women
Read More: Women's History Month, Suburban Women, Working Mothers, Feminist, Lesbian, The New York Times, Day Care, Equal Rights Amendment, Betty Friedan, Phyllis Schlafly, Stop the ERA, Surrogate Motherhood, Invitro Fertilization, Roe v. Wade, Bra-Burner, Women's Liberation Movement, Birth Control, Women's Movement, MAKERS: Women Who Make America, Professional Women, Women News
Nancy Rubin Stuart

That social disconnect between the rhetoric of the woman's liberation movement and the realities of suburban life led me to wonder about women across the country who were also beginning to change traditional roles. As a journalist I I had to find out.

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Would Betty Friedan Be Celebrating?

Gabrielle Burton | Posted 04.06.2013 | Women
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Equal Rights, Sean Connery, Marilyn Monroe, Fab Four, West Side Story, Betty Friedan, Queen's Jubilee, 50th Anniversary, The Feminine Mystique, Paycheck Fairness Act, Equal Pay, Sound of Music, Feminism, The Violence Against Women Act, Equal Rights Amendment, Era, Women's Liberation Movement, Rolling Stones, Golden Anniversary, James Bond, Women's Lib, Women News
Gabrielle Burton

Sooner than I ever imagined. The something that comes cannonballin' out of the sky when you get older is that you wake up one day and things that were just your experiences, your memories, your life, have become history. It's a surreal feeling.

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From Silence, Stigma, And Shame: Finding My Voice

Chana Wilson | Posted 09.24.2012 | Gay Voices
Read More: Lesbian, Coming Out, Public Gay Voices, Gay Liberation Movement, Women's Movement, Overcoming Adversity, Coming Out of the Closet, Coming Out as Gay, Coming Out as a Lesbian, Women's Liberation Movement, Gay Liberation, Becoming-Fearless, Gay Shame, Women's Liberation, Women's Lib, Gay Voices News
Chana Wilson

Fear was releasing from my body as my mother's story echoed on the airwaves from the Pacific to the Sierra foothills. But when it came to my story -- my story, not my mother's -- the silence of my childhood was still deeply embedded in my body.

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A Woman's Place is... Where?

Laverne H. Bardy | Posted 08.28.2012 | Fifty
Read More: The Feminine Mystique, Betty Freidan, Women's Liberation, Housewife, A Woman's Place, Women's Lib, Women's Liberation Movement, Fifty News
Laverne H. Bardy

It was 1976. The front page of every newspaper was ablaze with reports about something called Women's Liberation. I was caught in the vortex of this revolutionary upheaval.

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Get Gloria Steinem's '70s Feminist Look

The Huffington Post | Rebecca Adams | Posted 10.11.2012 | Style
Read More: Womens Liberation Movement, Gloria Steinem Pictures, Gloria Steinem Feminism, Pink Lip Gloss, Photo Galleries, Gloria Steinem, Feminist Style, Slidepollajax, Aviator Glasses, Gloria Steinem Glasses, Style News

"A Look Back" is a daily column that highlights a moment from fashion's fabulous past. Today's pick is of Gloria Steinem at a speaking engagement circ...

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Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 10.15.2011 | Impact
Read More: Abortion, Ms. Magazine, Bella Abzug, Gloria: In Her Own Words, Flo Kennedy, Feminist, Gloria Steinem, Impact, Peter Kunhardt, Documentary Film, Feminism, The National Women's Conference, Beck Social Justice, Equal Rights Amendment, Hbo, Betty Friedan, Activism, Dorothy Pitman Hughes, Era, Women's Liberation Movement, Sexual Harassment, Sheila Nevins, Second Wave Feminism, The Feminine Mystique, Impact News
Marcia G. Yerman

Why did Gloria Steinem evolve into a symbol of so much to so many? It's impossible to know. She became a vessel through which some women discovered themselves, their potential, and the strength to advocate for their own truths.

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Barbara Jean at Rest

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Greed, Norris Church Mailer, Barbara Jean Davis, Character, Human Rights, Women's Liberation Movement, Feminists, Cancer, Celebrity, Norman Mailer, Entertainment News
Paula Gordon

Norris Church Mailer death was widely reported. Slow news week. Coverage was zip when her younger self -- Barbara Jean Davis -- fell victim to our con...

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