"Militant Feminist" When do you think that phrase was first used?

[RoeBear]

I have a magazine that uses that phrase. I was surprised at the date of this magazine. Anyone want to guess the date and type of magazine it appears in?

[molly]

1. Here's my guess - mid 1950's - Look magazine?

[Kolesar]

2. 19th Century Suffragettes?

Ok, you probably don't have any magazines that are 104 years old.

[meegbear]

3. 1950's - The Nation or Time

[prolesunited]

4. Well, I don't have a guess

but am curious as to what the answer is.

As much as I dislike it, it is far less offensive than the term "feminazi."

[Mari333]

5. Probably in 1973 when my friend Linda and I spray painted

all over Chicago
"Male Chauvinists are Lousy Fucks"
I was a badddd gryllll back then.

[donsu]

8. badly good - I used to write on women's bathroom stall walls

during that time trying to awaken women to the reality of their lives.

(time flies - have not thought about that for a long time)

[Mari333]

11. heh and we spray painted the Playboy building too

gads we were bad back then. I look back and find myself to be quite a stinker , luckily, I could run fast back then.
Well, theres still GrannyD!! I look forward to being like her .

[pmbryant]

6. My guess: 1920s

I just read a book that indicated there was quite a "feminist backlash" in the 1920s over the inroads women had made into society in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

So my guess is the 1920s.

(EDIT: As for type of magazine, I would guess a magazine mass-marketed to women.)

Peter

[Mari333]

7. I think the backlash is still with us

no matter how much progress we make, many on the radical reich wish to remove our rights , daily.

[pmbryant]

9. Definitely

But it's strength waxes and wanes. Right now it is obviously near a peak (I hope that this is a peak, at least). The same seems to have been the case in the 1920s from my reading.

--Peter

[Kanary]

10. Only because of my experience

I'd say the late 60's early 70's --- in part because of the Red Stockings in San Francisco, and related groups.

Those were Righteous Women! Wish they were still around...

Kanary

[Mari333]

12. Lots of us still here working on challenging the patriarchy/death culture

I was in the Chicago Womens Liberation movement in the early 70's, back when I was working all those pink ghetto jobs and trying to get thru college which I never fully got thru because I finally decided (in my youthful mind) to take up welding as a career..hahahaha I was the only girl in the school back then..
Oh well, I liked breaking the glass ceiling on occassion
The conciousness raising groups were a large part of the movement back then..and we marched a lot..Hazy memories, but a vital time..so much was going on! Vietnam, Civil rights, womens rights..gads it was so busy to be there then
and here we go again. This time, wiser for me, since Ive been a parent and have grown sons and have a whole new perspective on how sons are raised in this horrific society.

[RoeBear]

13. The answer is...

...1937! It was a movie star magazine (and now I forget the actual title cause it's at a different location).

The catch is that it didn't mean the same thing it means today. It was used in a context similar to how we might call someone today a Super Mom but more in the realm of a Super Hostess.

[pmbryant]

14. Ah, a trick question

No fair! ;-)

--Peter