Looking Back at the Chicago Women's Liberation
Union
Browse articles about the CWLU and its
members written from a modern perspective. If you would
like to write an article that looks back at the Chicago Women's Liberation
Union please contact us at infogal@cwluherstory.org. We would be happy to assist you.
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by Cara Jepson(1999) Jenny Knauss's
awakening came when she taught at Mundelein College in the late 1960s.
Because she was close to the age of her students—and most of the
other teachers were nuns—she found herself being approached by
often desperate young women in need of advice.
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by Angela Bonavoglia "In
Chicago, we always felt the women's movement in New York thought it
was the center of the world," recalls Vivian Rothstein, one of
the founders of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union, a pioneering
league of feminists who had been active in civil rights and anti-war
efforts. "In terms of building an organization, we were first."
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by Tim Hodgdon (2000) Tim Hodgdon was a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of History
at Arizona State University when he wrote this.
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by Becky Kluchin (1999) The
Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU), the first women's liberation
union in the country, was formed in 1969 by a group of women interested
in expanding the emerging women's movement in Chicago. These women
were not alone in their efforts; radical feminist groups sprang up
across the country around the same time with a similar mission of
establishing a national movement similar to that of civil rights and
the anti-war campaigns.
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by
Margaret "Peg" Strobel and Sue Davenport (1999) The
Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU, 1969-1977), an early women's
liberation group, organized around women's health and reproductive rights,
education, economic rights, visual arts and music, sports, lesbian liberation
and opposition to the war in Southeast Asia.
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