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The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: White Socialist Feminism And Women's Health Organizing In The 1970s, Lara Griffin
The Chicago Women's Liberation Union: White Socialist Feminism And Women's Health Organizing In The 1970s, Lara Griffin
Honors Papers
This thesis examines the organizing projects of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union from 1969-1977. This thesis will examine the relationship between the development of socialist feminism in the central organization and in the activist health projects. While the central organization cultivated the theoretical definition of socialist feminism, the health programs put this vision into practice, and often discovered tensions between the needs of women and the theory of the organization. These tensions centrally revolved around the white middle class identities of the members of the CWLU and their broader goal of being an organization to empower all women. Ultimately, this …