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.
Reflecting on the Seattle movement\'s accomplishments and shortcomings, Winslow offers a model for contemporary feminist activism..
Despite these achievements, Winslow critiques the failure of the movement\'s White members to listen to Black, Latina, Indigenous, and Asian American and Pacific Islander feminist activists.
The Seattle Movement was essential to winning the first popular vote in the United States to liberalize abortion laws.
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.
Winslow brings the voices and visions of those she calls the movement\'s ecstatic utopians to life.
Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspaper accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, Winslow emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women\'s Liberation Movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions in an overwhelmingly White city.
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
