History of Feminism

CTyankee

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4. wonderful!

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 08:04 AM

Sep 2014

When I was doing some art travel in Tuscany last March I ran into a woman who had won a MacArthur for her book on women in the labor movement in this country. She didn't reveal it but her husband did at a restaurant one evening. She was a little reserved but I was so eager to hear about her work she told me about it. I was a little star struck, tho!

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Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Wins MacArthur Prize [View all] mercuryblues Sep 2014 OP

and it came from a 1985 Dykes To Watch Out For irisblue Sep 2014 #1

Not that I saw ismnotwasm Sep 2014 #2

I had mercuryblues Sep 2014 #3

I noticed that Time seemed to be going out of its way to avoid that title starroute Sep 2014 #11

wonderful! CTyankee Sep 2014 #4

What a wonderful anecdote from your travels, CTyankee! Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2014 #5

I tried but it was out of print. She got her MacArthur back in the early '80s. CTyankee Sep 2014 #7

lol ... The Green-Eyed Monster reared it's head, eh? Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2014 #9

Some better links eggplant Sep 2014 #6

Absolutely, right up there next to a Nobel, IMO! CTyankee Sep 2014 #8

A self portrait, and even more content eggplant Sep 2014 #10

I realize I am about 9 months late in responding to this thread . . . ` markpkessinger Jun 2015 #12

Thanks mercuryblues Jun 2015 #13

Fun Home won mercuryblues Jun 2015 #14