Literature and Poetry
Ferida's Wolff's Backyard: Ahh, Autumn
Ferida Wolff writes: "It seems like a warmer Fall would alter the timing of when leaves change their color but trees seem to know better. The leaves are glowing with brilliant reds and yellows and starting to fall in huge numbers. I used to like to crunch them when I walked down the street. I still do." more »
Jo Freeman Reviews: The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization That Transformed America
Jo Freeman Reviews: "This book is a biography of three women and an organization. It’s an unusual way to write about either, but Turk makes it work. The three women are Patricia Hill Burnett, Aileen Hernandez, and Mary Jean Collins born in 1920, 1926 and 1939 respectively. The organization is the National Organization for Women, founded in 1966 'to bring women into full participation in the mainstream of American society now, exercising all the privileges and responsibilities thereof in truly equal partnership with men.' ” more »
Ferida Wolff's Backyard: Turtles Sunbathing
Ferida Wolff Writes: We were out for the afternoon on a hot, late summer day, walking through the woods at the John Heinz National Wildlife Refuge in Philadelphia. We came upon the lake where flowers were blooming and greens were flourishing. I assumed that there would be fish swimming around as there were signs saying No Fishing, but I didn’t see any. Was it too hot for them to peek out of the cool water? There were some logs among the plants in the water. And there, on top of the wood, were turtles! more »
Jo Freeman Reviews: Revolutionary Feminists: The Women's Liberation Movement in Seattle; A Good Read and Reference Book
Jo Freeman Writes: "The women’s liberation movement (wlm) flowered in the late 1960s. Seattle was one of the seeds, as one of five cities in North America where small groups formed independently, without an outsider bringing the news from someplace else. It pollinated much of the northwest. As was true elsewhere, wlm groups divided and multiplied. Within two years there were three independent women’s liberation organizations. As was not true elsewhere, the founders, and most of their followers, thought of themselves as revolutionaries before they became feminists."
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