{"id":351,"date":"2007-10-11T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T18:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=351"},"modified":"2007-10-11T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T18:07:00","slug":"of-bras-and-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2007\/10\/11\/of-bras-and-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Bras and History"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Congrats to Women in Media and News (and Jen Pozner) on their successful action<\/a> to correct history in the Tampa Tribune. The Tribune ran a follow-up article (“No Bras Burned, But They Did Revolt”<\/a>) to correct the myth they were perpetuating in an earlier piece. The correction begins:<\/p>\n

It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a myth so pervasive, most of us believe it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s true.<\/p>\n

I know I did.<\/p>\n

So when information about \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcfeminist bra burning rallies\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 turned up in a timeline Maidenform provided for a Sept. 27 story on the history of the bra, I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think twice about using it.<\/p>\n

Bra-burning women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s libbers have become an important part of 1960s lore. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard stories about them. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve read about them in books and magazines.<\/p>\n

The problem is, things didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t go down quite the way those stories tell it.<\/p>\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say bra-burning never happened as a public protest anywhere during the turbulent \u00e2\u20ac\u212260s. But feminists didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t set their bras ablaze in the spectacular way that has become legend….
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In the groovy pic above<\/a>, an unidentified member of the Women’s Liberation Party drops a bra in the trash barrel in protest of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 7, 1968.<\/p>\n

And speaking of getting history straight, if you’re in or around NYC, don’t forget to come to the Feminist New York panel I’m moderating at the Tenement Museum tonight! Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Congrats to Women in Media and News (and Jen Pozner) on their successful action to correct history in the Tampa Tribune. The Tribune ran a follow-up article (“No Bras Burned, But They Did Revolt”) to correct the myth they were perpetuating in an earlier piece. The correction begins: It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a myth so pervasive, most of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21328,5007],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-events","tag-pop-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}