Feminist Icon Gloria Steinem Was An Anti-Communist CIA Operative who Kept Feminism From Discussing Class
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Declassified Cold War Ties Show How U.S. Intelligence Shaped Feminism’s Focus On Gender Over Class.
    • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Not really? Soviets were pushing hyper-realism so the US government funded the opposite

        • Archer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          They didn’t. It was about opposing the Soviets everywhere more than anything

            • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Unless you lived in that era it’s really hard to imagine how the reds lived in the imagination of every American. if you’re old enough to remember the war culture during the start of Iraq/Afghanistan. it was like that on steroids. 50 years of Cold War means a couple generations were completely consumed by it. The cold war nostalgia tour didn’t end until the “terrorists are every where” tour began.

          • mcv@lemmy.zipEnglish
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            2 months ago

            A foolish strategy. It means you allow your opponent to limit you. People who like hyper realism would have no option but Soviet art.

  • quick_snail@feddit.nlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Sources: Gloria Steinem, New York Times (1967); Redstockings press release and research report (1975); The Village Voice (May 21, 1979); Frances Stonor Saunders, The Cultural Cold War (1999); Daniel Brandt, NameBase/Portland

    It’s kinda fucked that they link to Wikipedia all throughout this article, but the real primary source material has zero links.

    Kinda kills your credibility.

    Would it be too much to upload your primary source material to archive.org and link to it?

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    2 months ago

    When Ramparts broke the story in 1967, Steinem confirmed her role to The New York Times without apology, describing the CIA as “liberal, nonviolent and honorable” and stating she would do it again.

  • thlibos@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Feminists of the 70s did not give two fucks about intersectionality or helping the oppressed…they only cared about white women getting the same slice of the pie as white men.

      • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Ya it’s an effect of the passage of time, that’s why we label the 3 waves of feminism in America. the movement got broader and more inclusive as the years went on. Which upset some of the older feminists like JK Rowling who refused the memo of equality for all.

    • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Continuing the tradition. The suffragette movement was tied to the civil rights movement. Until the white patriarchy promised white women the right to vote if they dumped the civil rights movement. Then the white women went “fyigm” and helped keep Jim Crow alive.

      • TronBronson@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        It’s amazing how a large movement can achieve half its goals and then pull up the ladder on the other half isn’t it?

    • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      White feminists*

      Black feminists wanted to talk about class and racism, it’s just the media didn’t give them a microphone to talk about it…

  • jambudz@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Gloria Steinem was paid $20k to speak/q&a at my school by an alumni committee and it was an hour of students just tearing her to shreds about what a money grubbing POS she was. It was great.