"Redstockings staged a public hearing at Judson Memorial Church in Greenwich Village, where a dozen women told a crowd of several hundred about their own abortions. The effect was electric, sending shock waves through the community and the nation and helping to lead a groundswell of action against illegal abortion, one that culminated a few years later in Roe v. Wade. This first speak-out, organized by Shulamith Firestone, Irene Peslikis, and others, inspired similar events elsewhere, including in France, where a number of prominent women, including Simone de Beauvoir (Ellen Willis's heroine as well as Firestone's), risked imprisonment by publicly declaring, "I have had an abortion.""
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Joyce Antler Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women’s Liberation Movement (2020)
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Irene Peslikis
Irene Peslikis (October 7, 1943 – November 28, 2002) was a Greek American feminist artist, activist, and educator. She was one of the early founders and organizers in the women's art movement, especially on the east coast.
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