Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Area feminist groups have expressed support for the venture...
Young women at Yale will certainly gain a lot from working in the largest feminist organization in the country," said Lynn Taborask, state coordinator for NOW in Connecticut. "Though problems with campus organizations include long vacations and the constant turnover of the student body these can also events a very volatile group because you have fresh ideas and enthusiasm coming in. I think they can be effective political organization," she added. Yale Daily News, February
...respect to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth," said Voltaire. David Plante has given very little of either to the subjects of this memoir. Among the three "difficult women" in question, only Feminist Germaine Greer emerges from Plante's portrayal with a shred or two of personal dignity. Novelist Jean Rhys, who died in 1979, and Sonia Orwell, George Orwell's widow, who died a year later, have been observed in the distorting half-light of their declining days, when illness and alcoholism had served to dim the mind and obscure the spirit...
Arrest of a California feminist...
Speeding down the Los Angeles freeway one morning last week to drop off a friend at Burbank airport, Ginny Foat was in high spirits. Her life was brimming with plans. President of the California chapter of the National Organization for Women and a respected figure in feminist and Democratic politics, Foat intended to go as a delegate to the Democratic state convention later in the week, attend law school next fall and, perhaps, pursue a political career. But her future was abruptly derailed by her past at the airport parking lot. Two policemen arrested Foat for the brutal murder...