Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years, anti-pornography feminist groups have tried to enact identical laws in Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, and New York. But in August, a U.S. Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that an Indianapolis statute, similar to the Cambridge proposal, was unconstitutional...
Suzanne G. Melendy, a spokesman for the Women's Alliance, said that "thanks to the SJC, the initiative petition process is alive and well in the city of Cambridge." The grassroots feminist organization will renew its political campaign to get city voters to approve the ordinance, Melendy said yesterday...
...receive "somewhat embarrassed" turndowns. Representatives from two of the American publishers told Clowes that their negative decisions were made because of "opposition from lady members of their board of directors." When rumors that one of Britain's most prominent and popular postwar novelists was being censored Stateside by a feminist cabal hit print last January, the literary flap echoed on both sides of the Atlantic for weeks. The attendant commotion and reams of free publicity also guaranteed that someone, for reasons noble, shrewd or both, would finally issue Amis' book...
PORNOGRAPHY IS STIRRING up debate all across America these days. Right-wing and feminist groups are burying their usual differences to team up and fight the subjugation of women in various media. Unfortunately, the Cambridge City Council has thwarted valuable discussion on the topic this fall by refusing last week to place an anti-pornography referendum on the ballot...
...traditionally progressive spirit of voter participation. In a city usually characterized by grassroots activism the referendum process has long held a privileged position, and now is not the time to belittle it. Moreover, we suspect that the democratic voices the Council is most anxious to silence are those of feminists. It seems that, once again, the opinions and grievances of women as communicated by feminist activists will not be heard...