A
fascinating oral history convened by
Joy Press of
New York Radical Women: the Sixties feminist thought-cell and guerrilla theater unit, born in flames of rage 50 years ago, who pioneered consciousness raising, who coined concepts and slogans like "the Personal is Political" and "Sisterhood is Powerful," and who launched absurdist-satiric attacks on the Miss America pageant and Wall Street. Featuring the voices of
Robin Morgan,
Ellen Willis,
Susan Brownmiller, Alix Kate Shulman,
Shulamith Firestone,
Kathie Sarachild, and more, this is an exhilarating memorial to a group whose ideas + spirit are more timely + urgent than ever in this savagely polarized political-cultural moment.
New York Radical Women hurl cosmetics and feminine
accoutrements into the Freedom Trash Can at the 1968 Miss
America pageant. Pic by Bev Grant.
Protesting Miss America again, 1969.
Hexing Wall Street, 1969. Pic by Bev Grant.
