“There’s never been anything like this,” says Eleanor Smeal, president of the Feminist Majority Foundation and a veteran leader of the women’s movement. “I believe the culture has ...
Benita Roth explores the ways that feminist movements emerged from the Civil Rights/Black Liberation movement, the Chicano movement, and the white left, and the processes that supported political ...
How did feminist movements get started and gain visibility prior to that date? Studer: Modern feminism began with the French Revolution and Olympe de Gouges, who, in 1791, introduced a plan for a ...