Like so many other women, I have uttered the phrase, “I’m not a feminist, but …” When I was younger, the word had been politicized to mean so many other things — man-hater, ballbuster, b̵…
When Clinton lost the 2016 election, theseries also became a look at how we got here from there. The deeper we got into telling this story, the more we saw how relevant the issues of the series are to our current political landscape — and the more I realized that I had a lot more to learn about the complexities of the battle to ratify the ERA.
First of all, I realized that Shirley Chisholm should be much more famous. She was the first black woman elected to the U.S. Congress as well as the first woman to pursue the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. She ran a fearless campaign on issues that we are still grappling with today but did not have the endorsement of either the black caucus or the women’s caucus. Both backed the more centrist candidate, George McGovern, who they felt had the best chance of beating Nixon.
Next I discovered that intersectionality was a ’70s thing. Black, Latino, queer and poor women were leaders in the feminist movement long before Kimberlé Crenshaw provided the framework and definition for intersectionality. The leaders of the movement constantly pushed back against an exclusively white, heterosexual, privileged mainstream and toward intersectional representation.
It blew my mind that there used to be Republican feminists, and they were the mainstream. First lady Betty Ford, Jill Ruckelshaus and Audrey Rowe Colom, all of whom are represented in our show, fought hard for the ratification of the ERA and were pro-choice. By 1980, with the election of Ronald Reagan, the Republican Party began its tack to the far right.Gloria Steinem
have often spoken of the influence of the insurance industry lobbyists working against the ratification of the ERA, because it would do away with gender-based price discrimination. For decades they treated being a woman as a preexisting condition. It was not unexpected to learn that W. Clement Stone, the Illinois insurance billionaire, was among Schlafly’s political backers when she made her congressional bid.In 1970, “Battling Bella” Abzug, ran for Congress at the same time as Schlafly.
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