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Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women’s liberation movement in Seattle in the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of a founding member, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspaper accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, she emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women’s liberation movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly White city. Winslow brings the voices and visions of those she calls the movement’s “ecstatic utopians” to life. She charts their short-term successes and lasting achievements, from organizing women at work and campaigning for subsidized childcare to creating women-centered rape crisis centers, health clinics, and self-defense programs. The Seattle movement was central to winning the first popular vote in the United States to liberalize abortion laws. Despite these achievements, Winslow critiques the failure of its White members to listen to Black, Latina, Indigenous, and AAPI feminist activists. Reflecting on the movement’s accomplishments and shortcomings, Winslow offers a model for contemporary feminist activism. Barbara Winslow tells the critical history of the Seattle women’s liberation movement during the 1960s and 1970s, outlining its successes and failures, emphasizing the foundational role that Black women played in the movement, and showing how it provides a model for contemporary feminist activism. Barbara Winslow is Professor Emerita of Women’s and Gender Studies at Brooklyn College and author of Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism and Shirley Chisholm: Catalyst for Change, 1926–2005. Acronyms ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. It’s Reigning Men 13
2. From the Woman Question to Women’s Liberation 27
3. Let Him Her Live 48
4. Freed Up and Fired Up 72
5. The Rising of the Women 92
6. Antiwar, Antidraft, and Anti-imperialist Feminist Activism 110
7. The Multiplicity of Us 124
8. Flow and Ebb 144
Epilogue 157
Appendix. Seattle Activists: Where Are They Now? 175
Notes 183
Glossary 207
Bibliography 213
Index
“Barbara Winslow brings her historian’s sensibilities, political perspicacity, personal knowledge, and perfect comedic timing to tell a story of women’s liberation in Seattle that effectively overturns the conventional wisdom about the roots and branches of radical feminism. Winslow and her awesome comrades built a movement that, from its inception, was class conscious, Marxist-oriented, antiracist, anti-imperialist, nonsectarian, cross-generational, and ahead of the nation in its fight for reproductive justice, free childcare, and sexual freedom. They made mistakes and wrestled with internal contradictions but never lost sight of their objective: world revolution. Seattle, it turns out, was not only the greenest place in the country; it may well have been the reddest.”
“In this comprehensive study of women’s liberation in Seattle, Barbara Winslow carefully excavates a history that is quite different from the ones that have been told about less radical movements on the East Coast. With deep archival and personal knowledge, she illuminates the role of socialist feminists within women’s liberation, complicating the movement’s history in ways that intervene in today’s debates about feminism’s relationship to race, reproductive politics, capitalism, and US imperialism. An impressive and distinctive work.”
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