SDS women disrupted Adorno’s 1969 lecture and pioneered the women’s movement

Evidence

When Adorno’s philosophy lecture `An Introduction to Dialectical Thinking’ was disrupted in April 1969, it was rebellious women members of the SDS who were responsible. They had formed a Women’s Council in 1968, and were among the pioneers of the women’s movement. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2674

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: why did SDS women target Adorno’s lecture specifically? How did the Women’s Council’s disruption of Adorno relate to early second-wave feminism’s critique of the male-dominated left?
• SEED: Potential essay angle: the women of the SDS who pioneered the women’s movement by disrupting a Critical Theory lecture — the irony of feminism’s birth partly through interrupting Adorno, whose theory later became central to feminist reading.
• XREF: connects to: SDS activists staged a breast-baring protest against Adorno months before his death; Adorno’s 1969 death ended the Institute-centered form of Critical Theory — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2748; SDS activists disrupted Adorno’s lectures months before his 1969 death — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 7

Broader Connections

• SDS activists staged a breast-baring protest against Adorno months before his death #corroborates (0.95)
• Adorno’s 1969 death ended the Institute-centered form of Critical Theory #complicates (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2748