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This revolution has to change consciousness, to upset the injustice of our current hierarchy by refusing to honor it, and to live a life that enforces a new social justice. [42] Because the truth is none of us can be liberated if other groups are not.
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What were Steinem’s goals in her commencement speech to Vassar? How do her goals differ from the typical commencement speech? Do you think her speech is more persuasive (deliberative) or ceremonial...How does Steinem’s ethos help or hurt the speech?Steinem says that the “first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to un-learn.” What does she mean by that? Provide an example from the speech.What does Steinem mean when she refers to “Popular Wisdom?” Provide an example.Read Ursula Le Guin’s “A Left Handed Commencement Address,” available at: http://www.ursulakleguin.com/LeftHandMillsCollege.html. How is the speech similar to Steinem’s? How is it different? How do...Go to the National Public Radio’s website ( http://www.npr.org/) and conduct a search using the word “feminism.” What feminist issues are being discussed today? What are the controversies and conce...Read President Nixon’s “Silent Majority Speech” (available at http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=2303). Who is the Silent Majority? How does Nixon depict the students who are protesting the Vie...Research the battle to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. When was it first proposed? When was it defeated? What were the arguments for and against the amendment? Who supported the amendment? Who opp...Research the National Organization for Women by looking at their website: (http://www.now.org/). What issues do they support? How have the issues evolved since the 1970s? What issues remain the sam...Research the Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. How did this legislation help women? Research median salaries for men and women. Do women generally make the same a...Visit Project Vote Smart: http://votesmart.org/. Enter your nine digit zip code to locate your local and state representatives. Review their positions on abortion issues and affirmative action by u...What local women’s rights organizations exist in your community or campus? Research two local groups and report on what they are doing to improve the lives of women. Some examples could include rap...This lesson challenges students to explore the evolving feminism of the 1960s by examining two texts, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan and the speech “Living the Revolution” by Gloria Steinem.
May 3, 2010 · "Living the Revolution," goes a long way toward explaining how that happened: Italian-Americans desperately clinging to their classification as "white" by federal authorities; their frantic efforts to establish "American-ness" while the U.S. made war on Mussolini's Italy; the devastating impact of the Palmer Raids on the anarchist ...
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Aug 1, 2010 · Gloria Steinem, “Living the Revolution” (31 May 1970) Gloria Steinem at a women’s conference held at the LBJ Library on Nov. 9, 1975; Photo courtesy of LBJ Library. Speech Text. Hogan Interpretive Essay [PDF] Teaching-Learning Materials. Suggested Resources.
Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945. Jennifer Guglielmo. Univ of North Carolina Press, May 3, 2010 - Social Science - 416 pages.
Mar 27, 2014 · Jennifer Guglielmo subverts the stereotype of the domestic Italian immigrant woman with her study of multiple generations of feminine political activism for the working class in Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945.
