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...conference. Not used to such tumult, the Soviets stomped off the stage in anger while a scornful world watched. The Jesse Jackson score was evened by another determined woman, Avital Shcharansky, the hauntingly beautiful wife of Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, still held in a Soviet prison after eight years. Bella Abzug, the American liberal agitator, was met on Geneva's free streets by Phyllis Schlafly, a banner bearer of the right...
...announcing that Nairobi's 4,000 hotel rooms would be held for the delegates to the official conference. But the hundreds of Forum participants who had made deposits for hotel rooms were outraged to learn that their reservations were invalid. At the New Stanley Hotel, American Feminists Bella Abzug and Betty Friedan staged a friendly protest in the lobby, with Friedan joining the ousted in a chorus of We Shall Not Be Moved. Eventually, solutions were found: many women tripled up, while some transferred to spartan, $17-a-night dorm rooms on campuses around Nairobi...
Concerned, I called a convenient authority on feminism—my mother, who as a young woman interned for Bella Abzug, and whom I suspect of having once been a radical. (I was once convinced that she was an ex-member of the Weather Underground very effectively disguised as a suburban matron, due to her liberal leanings and a suspicious lack of anecdotes about her past.) Anyway, she confirmed that replacing “girl” with “woman” had once been a central concern of feminists...
Starting with the publication of Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique in 1963, contemporary feminism--women's lib--had been a newly surging social current in America. Riding its crest were such vivid provocateurs as Gloria Steinem and Bella Abzug. But by 1975, TIME argued, feminism had "transcended the feminist movement" and penetrated every layer of society. The idea of equal social and professional rights for women, "once the doctrine of well-educated middle-class women," had "taken hold among working-class women, farm wives, blacks, Puerto Ricans, white 'ethnics.'" The drama of the sexes remained, TIME cautioned...
...years; to Phil Donohue, who toured the table with a microphone for toasts; to Bette Midler, who sang; to an all-woman orchestra. The guests were divided between people who were always at the Waldorf and people who'd never dreamed of going there. Rosa Parks came, Bella Abzug, Dolores Huerta for the farm workers and many movement people...