A Woman to Know: Kathie Sarachild
A feminist is someone who does everything it is necessary to do to win full human rights for women. — Kathie Sarachild
(image via Redstockings)
1968 was the big year for Kathie Amatniek: she held a banner proclaiming "Women's Liberation" at the Miss America pageant; she changed her last name to "Sarachild" (after her mother, Sara); she traveled around the country advocating the fledgling practice of "consciousness-raising" at multiple conferences and readings; she organized her small band of radical feminists, the Redstockings, in a disruption of the New York State hearings on reproductive rights; and -- most memorably -- she coined the phrase that would summon thousands of women to the feminist movement: "Sisterhood is powerful."
Add to your library list:
Redstockings (Kathie Sarachild)
Feminists Who Changed America (Barbara J. Love)
Sisterhood is Forever (Robin Morgan)
Read more:
A Note on the New York Radical Feminists (The New Yorker)
Kathie Sarachild (Civil Rights Digital Library)
A feminist? Definition varies with the woman (The New York Times)
What is a Woman? (The New Yorker)
Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon (Kathie Sarachild)
Death of a Revolutionary (Susan Faludi)
Feminists, Save Yourselves! (Hazlitt)
The Consciousness-Raising Document (The Journal of Woman Studies)
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