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3 unusual facts about Francine Gottfried


Francine Gottfried

A nice Jewish girl who lived at home with her parents in Williamsburg, she wasn't seeking notoriety and started taking a different route to work.

She was referenced as a cultural icon of the era in Thomas Hauser's novel Finding the Princess.

The events of September 1968 made an impression on New York City feminists, and in March 1970, feminists retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In," in which a large group of feminists, including Karla Jay, Alix Kates Shulman, and a number of women who had participated in the sit-in at Ladies Home Journal a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work.



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