But it was not until she became a college student in her forties that she discovered feminism and women's writing, in a series that led her from Hannah Arendt
to Simone de Beauvoir
and then...
Timeline
30 June 1966: The US National Organization for Women (NOW)...
Building item
30 June 1966
The US National Organization for Women
(NOW) was formed by delegates to the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women in Washington, DC.
1975-1982: In the USA the Equal Rights Amendment failed...
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1975-1982
In the USA the Equal Rights Amendment failed to achieve government ratification; this represented a significant setback for its lobbyists in the National Organization for Women
and for US feminists in general.
Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution. Dial, 1999.
