Dow expertly traces the history of the protest, paying particular attention to the creation of one of the most endearing myths about feminism: the feminist
bra-burner. Dow rightly addresses the impact of this myth, namely that it portrayed feminists as fighting for "frivolous" goals (p.
Watching Women's Liberation, 1970: Feminism's Pivotal Year on the Network News
Rather, it was journalists reporting on the protest who coined the alliterative term "
bra-burner" at a time when anti-Vietnam war protests featured draft cards being burned.
The uplifting story
Levenson is no
bra-burner. She probably wouldn't even sling her Ultimo over the radiator..
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Some of the epithets were akin to the "
bra-burner" criticisms of more recent times.
Change from petticoats to pantsuits took at least 160 years
Anyway, the students will be keen to know what the Liverpool market trader's daughter and the legendary Australian
bra-burner have to offer as possible future Rectors.
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Some who opposed equal rights insulted activists by calling them "
bra-burners."
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After all, we've seen a century in which we've lost our upper hand, victims of the suffragettes and their "Votes for Women" campaign, to the
bra-burners of the Women's Lib movement.
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This is definitely not what the equal opportunity
bra-burners of the Sixties were fighting for.
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FROM Emily Pankhurst to 60s
bra-burners, there's always been an iconic female image to sum up the state of our nation.
We created mother of all teen monsters
The infamous
bra-burners marched for equal pay in 1969 and later for abortion and contraception rights.
Marching demonstrates our nation's preserve; The 'demo' is increasingly claimed by the middle classes and transformed into a respectable show of defiance. Rachel Porter looks at the changing face of protest which has led to this weekend's 'grey power' march
In the 1970s, they were known as
bra-burners and trouble-makers, who marched through the streets carrying placards.
The time of their lives
They crowned "a live sheep to symbolize the beauty pageant's objectification of female bodies, and filled a 'freedom trashcan' with objects of female torture - girdles, bras, curlers, issues of Ladies' Home Journal." Although no bras were actually burned, the media referred to protesters as "
bra-burners," which then became a simplistic derogatory term to refer to feminists.(20)
"Loveliest daughter of our ancient Cathay!": representations of ethnic and gender identity in the Miss Chinatown U.S.A. beauty pageant
DESPITE what some
bra-burners might say, the Wonderbra is a great leap forward for female liberation, transforming modestly-endowed women into goddesses.
IS THE WONDERBRA JUST ONE BIG CON ?
The neurotic
bra-burners were back on their high horses over that little spot of disco PR.
These moaning minnies are just missing the joke
FAY Weldon's feminist epic Big Women (C4) opened in the Seventies with a group of
bra-burners sticking up posters proclaiming "A Woman Needs A Man Like A Fish Needs A Bicycle".
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