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Deans of Women and the Feminist MovementFrom Quiet Activism to Radical Tactics

Deans of Women and the Feminist Movement: From Quiet Activism to Radical Tactics [Casey Eike, University of Kansas student and Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (IAWS) national president, stood in dean of women Emily Taylor’s kitchen, peering into the refrigerator. It was Friday, February 4, 1972, and the AWS leader needed food to supply a group of women who were locking themselves into the East Asian Studies building to protest KU’s lack of action on women’s issues. No one knew how long it would take for Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers to agree to the women’s demands, so Eike loaded enough food to supply 20 women and four children for a week. The anonymous demonstrators, naming themselves the “February Sisters,” were inspired a few days prior when AWS leader Sarah Scott and her younger sister, Scottie, hosted radical feminist Robin Morgan on campus as part of a lecture series. After the standing-room-only talk ended, 100 women gathered with Morgan to discuss the KU situation. As the meeting wore on, Sarah Scott stood up and said, “I think we’ve done enough talking. Let’s do something.”1 The group agreed, planning a nonviolent protest to force the university to grant their demands—comprehensive women’s health services, campus childcare, an affirmative action office, equal pay for women, hiring women in administrative leadership roles, and creation of a women’s studies department. Their list, not surprisingly, looked similar to the agenda Taylor pursued throughout the 1960s.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-46555-2
Pages
145 –168
DOI
10.1057/9781137481344_7
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Abstract

[Casey Eike, University of Kansas student and Intercollegiate Association of Women Students (IAWS) national president, stood in dean of women Emily Taylor’s kitchen, peering into the refrigerator. It was Friday, February 4, 1972, and the AWS leader needed food to supply a group of women who were locking themselves into the East Asian Studies building to protest KU’s lack of action on women’s issues. No one knew how long it would take for Chancellor E. Laurence Chalmers to agree to the women’s demands, so Eike loaded enough food to supply 20 women and four children for a week. The anonymous demonstrators, naming themselves the “February Sisters,” were inspired a few days prior when AWS leader Sarah Scott and her younger sister, Scottie, hosted radical feminist Robin Morgan on campus as part of a lecture series. After the standing-room-only talk ended, 100 women gathered with Morgan to discuss the KU situation. As the meeting wore on, Sarah Scott stood up and said, “I think we’ve done enough talking. Let’s do something.”1 The group agreed, planning a nonviolent protest to force the university to grant their demands—comprehensive women’s health services, campus childcare, an affirmative action office, equal pay for women, hiring women in administrative leadership roles, and creation of a women’s studies department. Their list, not surprisingly, looked similar to the agenda Taylor pursued throughout the 1960s.]

Published: Oct 31, 2015

Keywords: Affirmative Action; Woman Faculty; Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Liberal Feminist; Equal Right Amendment

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