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Women’s International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH), 204, 205, 246, 298
Women’s Liberation Front, 206
Women’s Liberation Rock and Roll Band, 223, 232
Women’s Liberation Union, 163
women’s movement:
abortion rights campaign and, 158
“A Kind of Memo” and, 112–14, 115, 121–22
anger in, 198–99, 220
backlash against, 90–91, 92, 253, 270, 276, 326, 330, 331–37
black women in, see black women
bra-burning and, 160–61, 297
change and fragmentation in, 253, 263–64, 270, 271–72, 274
chronology of, xvii–xxxii
community in, 199
as conflict of cultures, not men vs. women, 333–34
consciousness-raising in, 87, 114, 196–201, 220, 264
consumerism and, 328, 330
and definition of “women’s issues,” 271, 338, 340
demonstrations in, 201–8, 300
Equal Rights Amendment and, 27, 39, 66, 71
euphoria in, 199–201, 264
FBI surveillance of, 239–54, 257, 258, 259–60
health movement in, 175–81
lesbians and, see lesbians, lesbianism
liberalism and, 77–78, 88
mainstream services created by, 270
media and, see media
minority women in, see minority women
Ms. and, 162, 210–17
National Women’s Conference and, 291–94
New Left/hippie culture and, 161
paranoia in, 239, 252–60
polls on women’s attitudes toward, 337–38
and Presidential Commission on the Status of Women, 64, 66–70, 74
public image of, 295; see also media
Right’s emulation of methods of, 332
and SDS rethinking conference, 121–24
sexuality as topic in, 148–57
sex workers and, 188–94
SNCC Position Paper and, 107–8
spread of, 129–33, 267–68, 271
structurelessness in, 227–29
successes of, 89–90, 338–40
and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, 71–73, 75, 81
trashing in, 227–39, 252, 259
women’s culture created by, 174–75, 217–26
and women’s rejection of New Left, 95, 133–40
of younger women, 84–93
of younger women, vs. NOW, 84–88
see also feminism
Women’s Strike for Equality, 92–93, 296
Women Strike for Peace (WSP), 59, 99, 130, 201, 202–3, 240
Wood, Jill, 216
work, historical break between home and, 328
working class:
feminists as from, 46–47, 87
NOW and, 81
Working Woman, 312
working women, 10, 19–27, 35–36, 67, 123, 274–75, 320, 330, 334, 335, 336, 337, 339–40
abortion rights and, 331
assertiveness training and, 317
clothing for, 163, 312–14
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and, 72–74, 75
Equal Rights Amendment and, 82
FBI and, 248
“first woman” stories and, 303–8
magazines and, 310, 312
mothers, 21, 24, 26, 320, 333; see also child care
NOW’s statement and, 78–79
organizations for, 268–70
sexual harassment and, 23–24, 186–88, 195
superwoman ideal and, 295, 296, 304–5, 320, 327–28, 330, 337
television portrayals of, 321–22
Total Woman and, 319
wages earned by, 25–26, 68, 78–79
World Conferences on Women (United Nations), 184, 340–41, 342
Wright, Jane, 212–13
WSP (Women Strike for Peace), 59, 99, 130, 201, 202–3, 240
Wyatt, Addie, 33, 69
Wylie, Philip, 15
Yippies, 133
YWCA, 98
Zimmerman, Elaine, 270
Zweig, Martha, 122