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Classic Feminist Writings

Classic documents These are the articles, pamphlets, manifestos, and stories produced by the women's liberation movement that helped influence the thinking of CWLU members. Some are reproduced from the originals. Others were scanned from books. Still others were retrieved from online sources.



The Women's Rights Movement in the U.S. : A New View Print E-mail
by Shulamith Firestone (1968) A radical interpretation of the feminist movement in the USA— a history largely unknown at the time.
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Toward a Radical Movement Print E-mail
by Heather Booth, Evie Goldfield,& Sue Munaker (1968) This paper investigates the mythology of the liberated "New Woman" as defined by the popular media of the day.
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Sexual Politics Print E-mail
by Kate Millett (1968) Circulated as a short pamphlet, the ideas in this article were later incorporated into Chapter 2 of Kate Millett's classic feminist book of the same name.
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NOW Statement of Purpose Print E-mail
Adopted at the organizing conference in Washington, D. C. ( October 29, 1966) The original mission statement of the National Organization for Women.
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A Kind of Memo Print E-mail
by Casey Hayden and Mary King (1965) This paper about women in social movements was one of the first documents of the emerging women's liberation movement.
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From Women Who Broke the Silence

Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me--so different that I had to stretch and grow in order to recognize her. And in that growing, we came to separation, that place where work begins.

Audre Lorde