radical redstockings

[niyad]

The radical feminist group Redstockings was founded in New York in 1969. The name Redstockings was a play on the word bluestocking, adapted to include red, a color long associated with revolution and uprising.

Bluestocking was an old term for a woman who had intellectual or literary interests, instead of the supposedly "acceptable" feminine interests. The word bluestocking had been applied with a negative connotation to 18th and 19th century feminist women.
Who Were the Redstockings?

Redstockings formed when the 1960s group New York Radical Women (NYRW) dissolved. NYRW split up after disagreements about political action, feminist theory, and leadership structure. NYRW members began meeting in separate smaller groups, with some women choosing to follow the leader whose philosophy matched theirs. Redstockings was started by Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis. Other members included prominent feminist thinkers Corrine Grad Coleman, Carol Hanisch, and Kathie (Amatniek) Sarachild.
Redstockings Manifesto and Beliefs

The members of Redstockings firmly believed that women were oppressed as a class. They also asserted that the existing male-dominated society was inherently flawed, destructive, and oppressive.

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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/feminism/a/redstockings.htm

[kestrel91316]

1. It is time - time to revive Redstockings as an activist feminist group.

I'd be honored to join.

[niyad]

2. and I would be right there with you.