The text is a pamphlet from “Lesbianism and Feminism” written by the US radical feminist author Anne Koedt, a New-York city-based woman of Danish nationality, in 1971 when she was 30 years old. Anne Koedt was first an active figure in the Group NYRW: “New York Radical Women” which was an early second-wave feminism (1967-1969), along with Robin Morgan and then, in 1969, she co-founded of the Group NYRF: “New York Radical Feminists,” with Shulamith Firestone, another great figure of the dynamism of feminist ideas at that time. That group was to be one of first “consciousness-raising”; that notion would be the starting point for existing Liberalism to establish the foundations of Radicalism, and Anne Koedt would be a famous protagonist in it.
At the same time, Ti-Grace Atkinson created the radical group: “The Feminists,” in 1969, after she left the liberal group “National Organization for Women (NOW),” passing from Liberalism to Reformism. A link remains, but the main contradiction is that Liberal Feminism tends towards an …show more content…
The Civil Rights Movement already ended the segregation between Black and White people and to the issue of interracial sexual relations. It is the main post Second World War social movement. It was a model for further other social movements and directly linked with, in the sense it inspired them, the “Women's liberation movement” or “First-wave feminism”. Both the Black and feminist movements are direct big protest movements. It is in this gap that second-wave feminism rooted and led to, at the end, the Civil Rights Movement. Anne Koedt realized with other feminist partners that it is through the awareness of their condition, their identity, their strength, in the “Consciousness-raising,” and also through the weight of the considered coalition: feminists + gays “Union makes strength,” that they will be able to access the supreme powers. This will begin with the fight for civil rights for