Mother's Movement Online

Carolyn at Nuclear Freeze Protest, 5/8/83; at Halloween, 1994

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I was a very political creature in my youth, active in the civil rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War protests. In fact, my husband John was prepared to go to jail if he was not granted Conscientious Objector status. Fortunately, he got a high number in the draft lottery, and we were spared that ordeal. Much of the energy women now devote to their weight was expended on political activism. We had endless debates about whether our life style matched our politics. I have only seen Washington behind a picket sign.

Feminism seemed a logical outgrowth of that activism. I kept a journal in 1971 exploring my thoughts about the feminist movement. I will probably use some of it in this blog. Many of my misgivings about the direction the movement was headed seem prescient.