Feminism

From #MeToo to #WeStrike – What the Movement Can Learn from Latin American Feminists

The following essay is drawn from the ebook Where Freedom Starts: Sex Power Violence #MeToo, freely downloadable now from Verso Books. This originally appeared at The Literary Hub.  March 8, 2018  By Liz Mason-Deese A year before #MeToo erupted in the United States, women in Argentina were fighting against an epidemic of violence against women in which, on average, one woman…

This Date in History: 1971 – Bella Abzug Introduces Resolution to Withdraw All U.S. Troops from Southeast Asia

On this day – January 3, 1971 – Congresswoman Bella Abzug (D-New York) introduced a resolution to the 95th Congress that would withdraw all U.S. troops from Southeast Asia. It was her first full day in the House of Representatives. Born one month after the passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in…