Major US feminist theorists were radicalized first in anti-war and Black movements.
Evidence
It is significant that some of the more influential figures in that first wave of the contemporary Women’s Movement in the USA which began to gather force in the late 1960s – figures as different as Shulamith Firestone and Adrienne Rich, Robin Morgan and Angela Davis – had been radicalized first within those other movements; it was only somewhat later that they began to think consistently of their own positions as women, of the larger history of those positions, and of the many modes of women’s resistance, past and present. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 98
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: US identity movements grew out of prior anti-war and Black radicalization spaces — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 255