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...between the Washington Monument and the Capitol. From there, they marched passed the monument to the White House and on to the Capitol Lawn for a four-hour rally. The rally featured speeches by NOW President Eleanor Smeal, Ms. Magazine founder Gloria Steinem, and former New York State Representative Bella Abzug...
...first day Bella Davidovich sat down to practice the piano in her new apartment in Queens, N.Y., a neighbor slipped a note under the door asking her not to play so loudly. Winner of the International Chopin Competition, faculty member at the Moscow Conservatory, Deserving Artist of the Soviet Union, Davidovich was unknown to her new neighbors. Her nonpolitical departure from the U.S.S.R. had occurred without benefit of an international incident and the subsequent career-boosting headlines. Adding injury to insult, Davidovich had been mugged just after her arrival in New York City; unfamiliar with such American customs...
KLEIN has made an obvious effort to legitimize the feminist politics genre in the minds of mainstream political scientists. To a literature which has consisted mostly of fiction and pop social science works on women's political behavior--ranging from Bella Abzug's faulty prediction of how women would bring Reagan defeat in November to Gloria Steinem's telling collection of essays describing her personal encounters with sexism, discrimination and feminism--the former Harvard professor adds a quantitative and historically supported thesis about the genesis of feminist politics. She has produced perhaps the first unabashedly academic treatise on the often...
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...spring of 1983 the Women's Presidential Project, coordinated by former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, sent questionnaires to all the announced presidential candidates. A follow-up series of meetings were held to "teach them how to reach women," says Mildred Jeffrey, a longtime official of the United Auto Workers Union. In July 1983, five of the six presidential candidates traveled to San Antonio to meet the National Women's Political Caucus. It seems amazing now to remember that this was the first time that presidential candidates had made such a pilgrimage, that until then women had been considered...