I was fortunate enough to be an active participant in the Women’s Movement of the 60s and 70s. Not only was this pressure group dynamically

underway but the mood of this era was vibrant: the back and foreground of exciting change included the Peace Movement, new music, different ways

of being, Woodstock, love-ins, gurus, LSD, and pot. All was possible! What an exhilarating and challenging time it was. The stage was set for feminists to create revolutionary change, changes which affected every aspect of a woman’s life in the Western world.

        These changes included the pill, divorce and marriage reforms, policies for single mothers, abortion advocacy, affirmative action, equal rights

amendments, feminist spirituality, consciousness-raising groups and Status of Women Departments. Women’s Studies programs were offered at most universities, resulting in new disciplines including feminist art, poetry, and literary criticism. There were feminist historians, sociologists, archaeologists, anthropologists and writers. And much more. The classics of that era are still relevant today. Books such as Germaine Greer’s The Female Eunuch, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, The Women’s Room, by Marilyn French, Simone de Beauvoir, TheSecond Sex, MS Magazine launched by Gloria Steinem and others.
Sexist/sexism became a noun, an adjective, and an adverb.

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