In
early September 1968, American feminism announced its arrival to the nation, when a hundred women demonstrators from New York traveled down to Atlantic City to disrupt the Miss America pageant. The protest on the boardwalk was more or less antic and funny, skewering the proceedings inside the hall, which even then were starting to seem a bit tawdry. The feminists’ major events included the crowning of a sheep as Miss America. And although the substance of the protests was not so frivolous, the slogans and denunciations seemed to many viewers as absurdities, the latest sign that the country had gone mad.
Women?? Them
too?? What’s
next??????!...
Far from an evanescent offshoot of the civil rights and antiwar movements, radical feminism, or women’s liberation as converts called it, flourished on its own. Indeed, its success stemmed from its ability to split off from the left, spreading its ideas and potent sensibility via college students, the press, ...
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