Do you believe men and women should be equal politically, economically, and socially? Then you may subscribe to the doctrine and political theory of feminism. How far should feminism be carried? Where do the differences between the makeup of men and women begin and end? Step up to the plate and air your views. This section is dedicated to the empowerment of women and all important issues affecting women today. The Feminist Foyer is a passionate platform for women everywhere. Below, you will find a brief intro to each posting.
~ Brief Intros to Current Postings ~
NOW Action Alerts by the National Organization of Women
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is the largest organization of feminist activists in the United States. NOW has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since its founding in 1966, NOW's goal has been to take action to bring about equality for all women. Read More . . .
Today's Woman by Rose DesRochers
She is a guide, mentor, mother, nurturer, wife, and friend. Today's Woman is a new woman in an ever-changing new world. She gives, and she takes, only what is earned. She speaks up even when it feels uncomfortable. When life gives her lemons, Today's Woman takes those lemons and makes lemonade. Read More . . .
Legendary Feminist: Alice Paul by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
NOTE: This article was first published as "Three United States Feminists—A Personal Tribute," Jewish Affairs 53.1 (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998): 37.
Alice Stokes Paul, characterized as "probably the only charismatic figure generated by the feminist movement in its salad days," was born on January 11, 1885, on a 214-acre farm in Moorestown, New Jersey, a few miles from Philadelphia.
Her education was prodigious and remarkable for a woman in the early years of this century. She started with a BA degree from Swarthmore in 1905 and later graduated from what is today the Columbia University School of Social Work. Read More . . .
Legendary Feminist: Catherine East by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
NOTE: This article was first published as "Three United States Feminists—A Personal Tribute," Jewish Affairs 53.1 (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998): 37.
Catherine East, a native of Barboursville, West Virginia, came to the Washington area in 1939. She began work as a clerk at the Civil Service Commission (now the Office of Personnel Management) and rose in government ranks to serve as executive secretary of the Committee on Federal Employment of President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women, the Interdepartmental Committee on the Status of Women, and the Citizens' Advisory Council on the Status of Women. Read More . . .
Legendary Feminist: Alice Paul by Sonia Pressman Fuentes
NOTE: This article was first published as "Three United States Feminists—A Personal Tribute," Jewish Affairs 53.1 (Johannesburg, South Africa, 1998): 37.
Anna Pauline (Pauli) Murray was born in Baltimore in 1910, the product of several generations of intermixtures of African, European, and Native American stock. When Pauli was three, her mother died, and Pauli was adopted by her maternal Aunt Pauline. Her aunt took her home to Durham, North Carolina, where Pauli was raised in the home of her maternal grandparents, Cornelia and Robert Fitzgerald. Robert and his brother, who owned the only brickyard in town, were among the wealthiest and most prominent African American families in Durham in the 1890s and early 1900s. Read More . . .
Feminism and Belly Dance by Andrea Deagon
When I was in graduate school in the early 1980s, some friends and I presented a program on belly dance as part of their dormitory's arts series. During coffee and conversation afterwards, a member of the audience said to me, "I consider myself a feminist, and I was offended by what you just did. I was surprised we'd even have something like this in our arts series." I answered, "I consider myself a feminist too, and 'what we just did' is a dance by and for women and an expression of women's power." Read More . . .
The Invisible Feminist by Fazia Rizvi
Who Am I? (Is that your question to me or my question about me?)
I am young, a minority, and female.
I am a feminist.
I am invisible.
Or at least, that's the way it seems sometimes. If I have anything I need
to tell the women of the First and Second Wave of feminism, it's that, consciously or unconsciously, you've contributed to my invisibility and to the complicated state of my struggle. Read More . . .
Need a clever gift for that feminist friend? Click here for a sampling of gifts available from the National Woman's Party's gift shop in the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum.
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