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This from Beggars and Choosers.. Rickie Solinger.
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Feminist Relations
When early CUB members joined the organization, they identified with the women’s liberation movement to varying degrees. For many, becoming affiliated with a women’s group concerned with rights and justice quickly convinced them that their issues were, as Pat Taylor put it, ‘yet another woman’s issue.” In the late 1970’s, Pat and others came to frame their experience in terms of gender discrimination: “we, as females, were told that we did not have the resources, ingenuity, creativity or strength to be parents to our children.” In general, the members who took on the responsibility for writing CUB documents for internal and external consumption, such as Carole Anderson, were already ardent feminists when they joined CUB, so the infused the organizations publications with a strong feminist perspective.
Carole Anderson wrote emphatically for the group in 1981 when she claimed. “Our pain is a feminist issue.” In the late 1970’s and early 1980s, when Anderson, Lee Campbell, Mary Ann Cohen, and Sandy Musser defined the birthmother’s experience, they connect it to all the major claims of the contemporary women’s movement. From their point of view, the coerced adoptions they’d experiences were meted out as “punishments of inappropriately sexually active women.” As girls rendered defenseless by society’s gender imperatives, they felt strongly that they had been manipulated and lied to.
Solinger goes on to write about abortion and the issues around it in those years before Roe vs Wade..
Jackie
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