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...Benston also calls the play a challenge. "I've never had a workout like this before," says the Mather resident. "The cast is so tiny...
Last night's other speakers were Florynce Kennedy, black feminist and lawyer from New York, co-author of the book Abortion Rap; Myrna Hill from the Black and Third World Caucus; and Margaret Benston, a long-time feminist and professor at Simon Frazier University in Vancouver...
...analyzing our situation in society," Benston said, "we realize that as women we must be revolutionary. We have to bring down the forces that control and cripple our humanity...
...Women's Lib theoretician, Margaret Benston, has made an economic analysis that places the blame for the "exploitation" of women directly on the family. Since women's work in the home is not paid for, she reasons, it is considered valueless by society. Moreover, at present, equal opportunity of employment simply means that a woman has two jobs: one at work and one at home. All work must therefore be taken out of the home and paid for like any other product; only such innovations as communal kitchens and universal child-care centers will "set women free," she says...
...Benston must win back the supportof the Yarborough backers by November 4 if he is to have a shot at defeating his Republican opponent, Rep. George Bush. Bush, and unabashed backer of President Nixon, is at the moment the favorite...