Tidal Wave: How Women Changed America at Century's End (53 page)

Joyner-Kersee, Jacqueline, 191, 216

Judaism, 140, 195, 197

Kamen, Paula, 7, 187-88, 214, 215, 222, 234

Kelber, Mim, 237

Kelly, Joan, 164, 165

Kennedy, Florence (“Flo”), 26, 53, 78

Kennedy, John F., 22

Kennedy, Robert, 23

Kent State University, 98

Kessler-Harris, Alice, 55, 164, 165

Kilpatrick, James J., 39

King, Billie Jean, 96-97, 98

King, Coretta Scott, 141

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 23, 141

King, Ynestra, 209

Kingston, Maxine Hong, 119

Klein, Melissa, 216

Kline, Emily, 44

Kline, Vivian, 44

Koedt, Anne, 48, 50, 106, 268n43

Komarovsky, Mirra, 13

Koonz, Elizabeth, 26, 66, 90

Kraft Foods, 87, 88

Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 77, 142

Kunin, Madeline, 20

*Ladkey, Anne, 90-91

*Ladky, Ann, 86

Lake Villa Conference, 105-6, 144-45

Landrine, Hope, 167

Langer, Elinor, 125

Language, 90-92, 206

La Raza Unita Party, 74

LaSalle College, 95

Las Chicanas, 34

Latifah, Queen, 217

Lavender Menace, 51, 52, 102, 122, 248n94

Law Enforcement Assistance Administration Grants (LEAA), 177

Law firms, 20

Law schools, 84

Leadership, 38-39, 45-16, 123-25, 195, 211, 224, 237

League of Women Voters, 65

Left, 90, 105, 121, 213.
See also
New Left

Legal Action Group, 148

Legal actions, 83, 87, 132-35.
See also
Court decisions

Legislation, 62-63, 67

Lerner, Gerda, 94, 95

Lesbian feminists, 7, 13, 49-53, 74, 78, 80, 93, 99, 102-4, 110, 114, 118-19, 120, 122-23, 125, 126, 141, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149-50, 151-52, 157, 159, 162, 169, 170, 190, 205, 207-8, 224, 248n94

Lewis, Ann, 227

Lifestyles, 121-23

Lim, Shirley, 32, 35

Limbaugh, Rush, 7, 229

Lippard, Lucy, 44

Lipsky, Suzanne, 77

Lipstick lesbians, 207

Listen Up
(anthology), 215

Lollipop Power, 10, 11, 12-13, 56

Long, Jill, 200

Lorde, Audre, 119, 166, 204-5

Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (LACAAW), 155

Love, Barbara, 50, 122

Love, Monie, 217

Lowey, Nita, 200

Lundy, Mary Ann, 218, 219

Lutheran Church, 84

McCune, Shirley, 69

McGovern, George, 72-73, 75, 253n31

MacKinnon, Catharine, 204, 222

Madar, Olga, 72, 90

Madden, Sally, 43

Madonna, 215-16

Magic Quilt, 101

Mainardi, Pat, 54

Majority Caucus, 110

Malcolm, Ellen, 197-98, 199, 227-28

Mamma Dolly (civil rights worker), 23

Mandate for Leadership
(Heritage Foundation), 178

Mankiller, Wilma, 190-91

Mansbridge, Jane, 31, 178

Marriage, 21, 55, 121, 234

Marshall, Paule, 119

Marshall, Thurgood, 225

Martin, Renetia, 37

Martinez, Elizabeth Sutherland, 30

Martin’s Father
(Eichler), 13, 239n8

Marxist-feminism, 30, 114, 120, 158, 161, 162, 164-66

Masters, Billie Nave, 141

Maternity/parental leave, 203

Mathews, Donald, 171, 178

Matter of Simple Justice, A
(report), 66

Maymi, Carmen, 78

Media, 39-42, 45, 53, 63, 88, 92, 184-86, 218, 220

Medical schools, 19-20, 84

Meese, Edwin, 178

Megatrends
(Aburdene and Naisbitt), 195

Meisner, Doris, 75

Merchant, Carolyn, 208

Messinger, Ruth W., 227

Methodist Church, 40, 211

Methodist Student Movement, 40

Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, 212

Mexican-American feminists.
See
Chicana feminists

Mexican-American Government Employees (IMAGE), 79

Mexican American National Issues Conference, 33-34

Mexican American National Women’s Association (MANA), 79-80, 139

Meyer, Susan, 134

Michigan Music Festival, 152-54

Michigan Women’s Commission, 111

Midwest Academy, 86, 90, 110, 168

Mikulski, Barbara, 200

Military, women in, 193

Miller, Joyce, 90

Millett, Kate, 53, 96, 106-7, 125

Mills College, 215

Mink, Patsy, 68, 69, 71, 200

Minnesota Council on the Economic Status of Women, 194

Miranda, Lourdes, 78

Miss America Pageant, 40, 143

Mitchell, Bev, 42-43, 213

Modern Language Association, 95

Mondale, Walter, 69

Moonforce Media, 148

*Moraga, Cherri, 119

*Moraga, Cherrie, 207

Moral, Barbara, 196

Moral Majority, 140, 216

Morgan, Robin, 107, 108

Mormon Church, 140

Mormons for the ERA, 173-74, 177

Morrison, Toni, 75, 119

Moseley-Braun, Carol, 226

Motherhood, 55-56, 150, 184, 207-8.
See also
Children

Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), 210

motive
magazine, 40

Movies, 185-86

Ms
. Foundation, 109

Ms
. magazine, 6, 61, 92-94, 108, 109, 151, 186-87, 257-58n86

Multicultural feminism, 80-81, 204-7

Murray, Pauli, 25, 26

Music, 43, 150-54, 207, 216-17

*Musil, Caryn McTighe, 171, 202

*Musil, Karen McTighe, 95, 223

“Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm, The” (Koedt), 48, 50, 268n43

Nader, Ralph, 70

Nagy, Diana, 133

Nairobi, Kenya, 213, 237

Nameless Sisterhood, 68

National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL), 112, 214

National Academy of Science, 138, 165

National Advisory Council on Women’s Educational Programs, 138

National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws, 112

National Association of Cuban American Women, 139

National Association of Scholars, 201

National Black Feminist Organization (NBFO), 26, 76-78, 118, 136

National Black Women’s Health Project (NBWHP), 129, 191-92

National Campus Ministry Association (NCMA), 130

National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, 130

National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA), 135, 192-93

National Commission on Consumer Finance, 69

National Committee on Pay Equity, 197

National Committee on Women’s Health, 197

National Conference of Puerto Rican Women (NCPRW), 78-79, 139

National Council for Research on Women, 195, 201

National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), 72, 81, 135

National Education Association, 69

National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), 211

National Hispanic Feminist Conference, 139

National Institute for Mental Health, 155

National Organization for Women (NOW), 15, 24-26, 38, 40-41, 42, 43, 45, 49, 55, 57, 61, 64-65, 69-70, 72, 81, 86, 89, 91, 93, 114, 132, 136, 137, 159, 160, 181, 227

abortion rights and, 214

college recruitment and, 189-90

early membership restrictions, 68

ERA and, 66-67, 172, 174, 177

family issues and, 55-56

founders of, 24-25

lesbian feminists in, 51, 53, 110, 248n94

mission statement, 24

origins of, 22

racial issues in, 110, 116

struggle for leadership in, 109-11

National Socialist Feminist Conference, 162

National Student Christian Federation, 130-31

National Student YWCA, 37

National Welfare Rights Organization, 72

National Women’s Agenda, 139

National Women’s Education Fund, 111

National Women’s Music Festival, 207

National Women’s Party, 6, 65

National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC), 25, 42, 61-62, 63, 70-76, 79, 80, 89, 93, 111, 116, 132, 136, 172, 174, 197, 200, 226, 227

National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA), 166, 168-71, 202-3, 222-24, 286-87n45

Native American feminists, 34, 35, 74, 81, 115, 117, 141-42, 169, 191

Native Tongues, 217

Near, Holly, 207

Nelms, Dorothy, 82

Nemy, Enid, 134

New American Movement (NAM), 161, 163-64, 262n43

New class, 120

New Left, 15, 28-29, 30, 32, 42, 94, 99-100, 104, 106-7, 113-14, 119, 123-24, 127, 143, 262n43.
See also
Left

New Right, 112-13, 127, 176, 182.
See also
Right

Newton, Judy, 95

New York City Commission on Human Rights, 134

New York Radical Feminists, 106-7, 134

New York Radical Women, 30, 31, 46, 96, 107

Niemi, Judith, 152

Nineteenth Amendment, 1, 40

9 to 5, 86-89, 122, 137, 158, 167, 168

Nixon, Richard, 26, 56, 61-62, 66, 72, 85, 112

No More Fun and Games
(journal), 31

North Pole expedition, 191

Norton, Eleanor Holmes, 78, 93, 134, 136, 138, 200

Notes from the First Year
(journal), 31, 50

Nuclear freeze campaign, 210

Nuns, 196

Nussbaum, Karen, 86, 88, 168

NWA (band), 217

Oak Grill demonstration, 57

Oberlin College, 13

O’Connor, Sandra Day, 190

October League, 163

off our backs
, 101, 151, 152, 167, 170

Ohio State University, 148

Old Westbury Community College, 95

Olivia Records, 147-48, 150, 207

Olympics, 134, 191, 192, 216

One Imperative, 37

Ordination, 84-85, 131, 195-96, 211

Oregon State University, 222

O’Reilly, Jane, 93

Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Boston Women’s Health Book Collective), 48, 50

Paglia, Camille, 215-16, 221, 226

Parents Without Partners, 69

Participatory democracy, 16, 29, 123, 158

Parton, Dolly, 88

Peace movements, 210, 211

Pendleton, Clarence, 182

Personal politics, 3-4, 18-60, 115, 232, 233

Personal Politics
(Evans), 15-16