creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Chesler, Phyllis
- Publish Year
- 2018
- Shelfmark
- VS 6 2018 - B
- Thesaurus
- vrouwenbewegingen, feminisme, tweede feministische golf, vrouwenstudies, zwarte vrouwen, lesbische vrouwen, seksueel geweld, Verenigde Staten, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out between 1972-1975 brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and sit-ins for abortion and equal rights. They began the first-ever national and international public conversations about birth control and abortion, sexual harassment, violence against women, female orgasm, and a woman’s right to kill in self-defense. The feminist movement has changed over the years, but Chesler knew some of its first pioneers, including Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett and Andrea Dworkin. Some had been viewed as whores, witches, and madwomen, but were changing the world and becoming major players in history.