Check out our own Miss Courtney Martin’s fearsome post at American Prospect last week and tell us what you think! I’m sensing this is gonna be fodder for our next Women, Girls, and Ladies event –which, by the way, is at the very same Sackler Center for Feminist Art (June 20 – Save the Date!) where the event Courtney writes about here took place:
The End of the Women’s Movement
(For liveblogging of the event she refers to — by moi — go here.)
Comments
anniegirl1138 — April 1, 2009
It's easy to dismiss the need for a single movement when you are on the high side of female privilege - educated and middle-class or better. Women without education, job opportunities and choice when it comes to mating (or not) - might not agree with the assessment that we are doing all that well as a gender.
To me it is clear that we deserve our pseudo-equality when we can bask in it as though it's the same as what the boys get.
gwp_admin — April 2, 2009
I believe that Courtney Martin has made some valid and intriguing observations. But, bottom line, I still believe that Frederick Douglass--writing long before Esther Broner and others were involved in the second wave of the women's movement--had it right. Douglass said: "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."