Blacks, Hippies...Now Women Want Equal Rights Too?  Categories:
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excerpt every day from the Voice archives. May 15, 1969, Vol.
XIV, No. 31  Radical Women: 'We'd Rather Do It Ourselves' by
Marlene Nadle  The feminine mystique has come to the Movement.
The frustrated suburban housewife is not alone. The woman
stifled in the home is being joined by the woman stifled in the
revolution.  Radical women are discontented in the middle of
building seizures, despairing while sputtering rhetoric, and
dissatisfied while contemplating the overthrow of capitalism.
Superficially the symbols of the committed and involved woman,
they are beginning to realize they are little more than leaflet
laureates, mistresses to mimeograph machines, invisible women in
a movement run by men.  In SDS, an organization devoted to the
premise that people should make the decisions that affect their
own lives, the women are complaining because they are excluded
from decision-making. In bi