Brenda Feigen

Not One of the Boys (eBook, ePUB)

Living Life as a Feminist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From an outspoken feminist, a leader of the Women's Movement in the 1960s and '70s--a candid, wide-ranging and deeply personal memoir that is, as well, an illuminating historical document of a time and a fight for profound societal change. Brenda Feigen has lived many lifetimes within one--lawyer, wife and mother, civil rights activist, politician, Hollywood movie producer--and in each she has faced down the specter of discrimination against women. She describes how at Harvard Law School she fought to change blatantly sexist practices such as Ladies' Days and law-firm interviewing processes; how she waged battles for women as National Vice President of NOW; how, with Gloria Steinem, she founded Ms. and cofounded the National Women's Political Caucus in the early 1970s; how she became director with Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the ACLU's Women's Rights Project in 1972; and how, in Hollywood, she met obstacles at every turn while fighting for movies with strong, positive roles for women. She describes, as well, the struggles and triumphs of her private life: her marriage (she and her husband were once considered "the perfect feminist couple"); being a (feminist) mother; her relationships with women; her breast cancer. Finally, she chronicles recent advances and losses in the Women's Movement, making clear how far women have come, and how far they have yet to go.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780593319062
• Artikelnr.: 59605620

Autorenporträt

Brenda Feigen, a graduate of Vassar College and Harvard Law School, co-founded and directed the ACLU's Women's Rights Project with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. From that she spun off and directed, as well, the Reproductive Freedom Project. She was National Vice President for Legislation of NOW and a co-founder of the National Women's Political Caucus and of Ms. magazine. She produced the big-budget feature NAVY SEALS (1990). Ms. Feigen is depicted as one of five Women's Movement leaders in Hulu's Emmy Award-winning limited series Mrs. America. She is featured in the Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning documentary RBG. Ms. Feigen has written tributes to the late Justice Ginsburg that appear in the Harvard Law Review (January 2021) and the Columbia Law Review (March 2021). While Justice Ginsburg was still alive, Ms. Feigen's article "The ACLU, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Me" was published in the ACLU Magazine. Earlier articles by Ms. Feigen appear in the Harvard Women's Law Journal: "May a State Legislature Rescind Its Ratification of a Pending Constitutional Amendment?" (vol. 1) and "Same-Sex Marriage: An Issue of Constitutional Rights Not Moral Opinions" (vol. 27). Ms. Feigen is the recipient of the 2022 Spirit of Vassar Award, presented to an alumna or alumnus who has demonstrated extraordinary and distinguished leadership, contribution and commitment to serving a community in which they effect positive, transformative societal change. Ms. Feigen is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York and California. She is married to the writer and private investigator Joanne Parent. They live in Los Angeles.