WOMEN DEMOCRATS: Who best represents your view of feminism?

[Gringo]

Who is closer to your brand of feminism?
(Guys - honor system here. Please don't vote.)
It just seems that women here are kind of ignored...

[Coventina]

1. Starhawk n/t

[GreenArrow]

8. nice choice

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[Tinoire]

20. Ditto!

[spooky3]

2. and Wonder Woman

[Gringo]

3. As I guy, I didn't vote, but

I liked Bella Abzug and Madelyn Murray O'Hair

[union_maid]

4. CMB

I picked "other" but I meant Carol Mosely Braun. Admittedly, my mind is on candidates at the moment, but I always liked her and still do. She's a great role model.

[10digits]

5. How about Elinore?

These polls are silly if you don't ask the right questions. That is what I think.

[Loyal]

26. Eleanor was awesome

I agree

[liberalnurse]

6. Z. Budapest....

:eyes:

[Solly Mack]

7. None of the above...My Mom

May she rest in peace...and her 8 sisters. May they also rest in peace...save one ...still kicking, still feisty & still a feminist


None can touch'em.

[RainDog]

9. Ida Tarbull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Adams,

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Eleanor Roosevelt,

...but most of all, millions of woman around the world who try to do their best for their world, their families, themselves, oftentimes in very difficult circumstances.

All those unsung heros, across generations and nations who lived and died without fame.

[spooky3]

10. Well said!

[Loyal]

25. good picks!

n/t

[JanMichael]

11. KICK! I'd like to know too. Great question.

And guys that vote ought to have to give birth to a baby...Without drugs...

[blondeatlast]

12. While I am a HUGE admirer of Mother Jones,

she doesn't fit the "standard" feminist profile. She fought against having women in the workplace. Before you pile on though, her reasoning was this:

She wanted the males to earn enough so that the women could stay home and raise the children (this idea gained her a lot of support). At the time, both parents were employed at the same factories out of need.

Maybe she lacked foresight, but she wins my vote.

[NashVegas]

13. Chrissie Hynde

"I'll never be like a man in a man's world"

[maxanne]

14. Elizabeth Cady Stanton

is my feminist hero. She worked in partnership with Susan B. Anthony - yet ECS is is forgotten by most history books.

http://www.ku.edu/carrie/docs/texts/seneca.htm

She wrote the Declaration of Sentiments, that launched the suffragette movement in 1848. She had seven children, wrote at least five books, innumerable newspaper and magazine articles, and went on speaking tours all over the world.

Midway through the fight for women's suffrage, Stanton realized that the vote would do little to change women's lives, as long as they were oppressed by religion. This view made her unpopular with other suffragettes, and with the churches, of course. She put together a group of female theologians and wrote "The Women's Bible."

She was a visionary.

28 years after the Declaration at Senecca Falls, she wrote:
"Looking over these twenty-eight years, I feel that what we have achieved, as yet, bears no proportion to what we have suffered in the daily humiliation of spirit from the cruel distinctions based on sex. The undercurrent of popular thought, as seen in our social habits, theological dogmas, and political theories still reflects the same customs, creeds and codes that degrade women in the effete civilizations of the old world."

If someone wants to fund me, I want very much to write a biography of this woman.

[Loyal]

27. That would be an awesome biography

I unfortunately have no $ to contribute.

[indigo32]

15. Ani Difranco

she lives life on HER terms

[JanMichael]

17. AND she's Kucinih supporter too!

Her poem/song about the WTC attacks is brilliant.

[JohnKleeb]

30. yep

big time, I havent heard her stuff.

[pippin]

16. and. . .

Emma Goldman, Dolores Huerta, Patsy Mink.

[Zorra]

18. Comandanta Esther

Link:

http://www.narconews.com/zcongress.html

[Iverson]

19. suggestions: Emma Goldman, Luce Irigaray

These are two very different figures, but both important to feminism.

http://www.geocities.com/Paris/2159/redemm.html

http://www.cddc.vt.edu/feminism/irigaray.html

[Kamika]

21. damned if i know

I have no clue of any "feministic" views by any candidate

[Gringo]

22. It's not about candidates

and not necessarily political/electoral. It's just about what person embodies your idea of what "feminism", or the direction in which you would like to see the role of women in society, evolve. I thought I had some good choices there, but a lot of folks have brought up great choices from the distant past that I neglected. It's pleasant to see so many people with a great grasp of history.

[Gringo]

23. Still trolling for submissions...

n/t

[IndianaGreen]

24. Eleanor Roosevelt

Heads and shoulders above her husband, and a better liberal than most liberals.

[Cheswick2.0]

28. Bellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

http://www.jwa.org/exhibits/wov/abzug/


Biography

Bella was "born yelling" in 1920. A daughter of Russian immigrants, she grew up poor in the Bronx. By the age of thirteen, she was already giving her first speeches and defying convention at her family's synagogue. At tuition free Hunter College Bella was student body president, and on scholarship at Columbia she was one of only a minuscule number of women law students across the nation.

Abzug then worked as a lawyer for the next twenty five years, specializing in labor and tenants’ rights, and civil rights and liberties cases. During the McCarthy era she was one of the few attorneys willing to fight against the House Un-American Activities Committee. While she ran her own practice, she was also raising two daughters together with her husband Martin.

In the 1960’s, Abzug helped start the nationwide Women Strike For Peace (WSP), in response to U.S.and Soviet nuclear testing, and soon became an important voice against the Vietnam War.

At the age of 50, Abzug ran for congress in Manhattan and won on a strong feminist and peace platform. She quickly became a nationally known legislator, one of only 12 women in the House. Her record of accomplishments in Congress continually demonstrated her unshakable convictions as an anti-war activist and as a fighter for social and economic justice.

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[Stuckinthebush]

29. Don't forget...

Men can be feminists too.