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unusual facts about feminist movement


Feminist movement

Londa Schiebinger suggests that the common biomedical model is no longer adequate and there is a need for a broader model to ensure that all aspects of a woman are being cared for.


Fly Me

Roger Corman says the film was successful, which he attributed in part to its strong women's lib stance.

McCarran Internal Security Act

The 1971 pseudo documentary film Punishment Park speculated what might have happened if Richard Nixon had enforced the McCarran Act against members of the anti-war movement, civil rights movement, the feminist movement, and others.

Mira Schor

Schor has written frequently on issues of gender representation, including “Backlash and Appropriation,” a chapter of The Power of Feminist Art, 1994, an historical overview of the Feminist movement published by Abrams, “Patrilineage”, 2002, republished in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader edited by Amelia Jones, and on artists such as Ida Applebroog, Mary Kelly, and Ana Mendieta.

Systerskapets år

Systerskapets år (The Year of Sisterhood) is a nine-hour-long film by Åsa Elzén and Sonia Hedstrand documenting events in the feminist movement in Sweden for a period of one year: August, 2003, through the end of July, 2004.


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Feminism in culture

In a film from popular culture although not in women's film, an early reference to the "feminist movement" is heard from Katharine Hepburn in the 1942 movie Woman of the Year.

Mary Radcliffe

Mary Ann Radcliffe (c. 1746 – c. 1810), an important British figure in the early feminist movement.