Battle Acts - Run of 13 Issues
197048866New York: Women of Youth Against War & Fascism 1970-1972. First Edition. Thirteen quarto issues 27-28.5cm; illustrated wrappers stapled; 16-28pp per issue; illus. Publication sequence runs as follows: Vol.1 Nos.1-8; Vol.2 Nos.1-5. Trivial wear to extremities else Fine and uniformly well-preserved. Early sequential run of issues of this second wave underground feminist journal published in New York by the Women's Caucus of the YAWF. The caucus was responsible for organizing the first major demonstration of the women's liberation movement in New York the Women's Strike for Equality Day August 26 1970 when 50000 women marched down 5th Avenue in honor of the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment. Their journal published between 1970-1974 covered a broad spectrum of issues facing women childcare welfare union organizing income inequality abortion sexual harassment racism imprisonment with the goal of striking "at the very root of women's oppression" envisioning "a total transformation of the subservient secondary status of women in all phases of life" Vol.1 No.1. Contents include contributions by Sue Steinman Deidre Griswold Sue Davis Naomi Cohen Sharon Martin Pam Meyers Afeni Shakur Emily Hanlon Nikki Green and others. Substantial runs are uncommon particularly those containing the earliest issues. Women of Youth Against War & Fascism unknown books
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