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♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott Kin..
🕑 Added 2023-05-19 11:00:03 +0000 UTC ♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Coretta Scott King Coretta Scott King was a trailblazer for the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement during the second wave of feminism. As the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. She was a dedicated wife and mother while also fighting for the rights of women of all races. During the second wave of feminism, a divide formed. The initially united force of women broke in half to create two separate ideological movements: equal rights feminism and radical feminism. In 1963, feminist writer Betty Friedan, wrote “The Feminine Mystique.” This nonfiction book pushed the second wave of feminism into a full scale movement. Friedan wrote and published the book at a time when most American women were dropping out of college to get married and leaving their degrees and dreams to run a household. This was the social norm of the time, and culturally there weren’t many other options acceptable for you ng girls. Yet Friedan, instead of getting married and dropping her degree, wrote a book. According to the book’s 50th anniversary description, it “gave a pitch-perfect description of the problem that ‘has no name:’ the insidious beliefs and institutions that undermine women’s confidence in their intellectual capabilities and keep them in the home.” Although, what about the women such as King who were mothers and activists? The book was published in the same time period that the separation of the movement took place. Also right around this time, King was tasked with mothering four children. Yet, she chose to accompany her husband to events and protests, becoming an irreplaceable part of the civil rights movement. According to Stanford University, she held a “critical role in many of the civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, performing in freedom concerts that included poetry recitation, singing, and lectures related to the history of the civil rights movement.” In 1959, the couple travelled to India and King was overwhelmingly affected by the women she interacted with there. “As we travelled through the land, we were greatly impressed by the part women played in the political life of India, far more than in our own country,” she said. By 1962, she travelled to Geneva, Switzerland, to serve as a “Women’s Strike for Peace” delegate to the 17-nation Disarmament Conference. King’s fight for race and gender equality continued in 1966 when she helped found the National Organization for Women (NOW). According to the King Center, “in 1974, Mrs. King formed a broad coalition of over 100 religious, labor, business, civil and women’s rights organizations dedicated to a national policy of full employment and equal economic opportunity.” She formed the Coalition of Consciousnesses consisting of over 800 human rights organizations and in 1990 served as the co-convener of the Soviet-American Women’s Summit in D.C. King embodied everything a woman could be while fighting for race and gender equal rights, following her dream, earning a degree, and living a happy life as a wife and mother. Following the second wave, we often, intentionally or unintentionally, separate the women who were happily married with kids from the feminists. Yet, King proves this isn’t the case. Feminism fights for women to have the same rights men do. It is a fight for equality and equality means women have the right to choose to be wives and mothers without being anti-feminist. Every woman is included in feminism, not just the ones who reject traditional female roles, such as Friedan. The feminist movement isn’t fighting to end marriage or motherhood, it’s fighting for the right to have equal opportunities with men when pursuing whatever it is that makes you happy. *** Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!) but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
