My Childhood Research Paper
What was your childhood like?
Well, I was born March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. The beginning of my childhood was a little disorganized with my family moving about a lot because of my father’s job. Though finally in 1944 my parents got divorced and I had to live with my mother instead of my father. My father’s job was one of the reasons for the divorce, but also my mother had a mental illness that drove them apart. My mother and I went to live in a run down house in Toledo, Ohio where I would learn to take care of her instead of the other way around. This made me a have to be my mother’s caregiver instead of the other way around. I finally got away from my mother and the responsibility that I held on my back for far too long when I went to college and Smith college where I studied government. At that time though it was very uncommon for a women to study government, but that did not stop me. When I did finish college though I did not pursue a career in government, but instead …show more content…
became a freelance writer. However, I did grow an interest in the women’s movement and feminism.
You said before that you grew an interest in the women’s movement and feminism, so what did you then do to support feminism?
Well my journalism career was my main source in which I supported feminism, but I did do several other things and some of them were not mainly about feminism.
For one, I signed the “War Tax Protest” pledge in 1968 which was not about feminism, but more just an act of political activism where I vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Though one thing I did for the women’s movement was campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and also published an essay in 1969 about what it would be like if a women won the election to be president. On July 10, 1971, I was one of 300 women who founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and I also was one of the people who addressed at the first national conference of Stewardesses for Women’s Rights in 1973. Finally, I think the last important thing I did for just political activism in general was get arrested in 1984 for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid
system.
What were some important things that you did in your journalism career?
During the beginning of my career when I was a young writer I was often hired to write about more of the feministic topics rather than the political topics or controversial topics I wished to write about. My big break as a writer did come though in 1963 when I wrote the article The Bunny’s Tale. I had gone undercover at a Playboy Club and had dressed as a waitress in a bunny costume so that I could experience a bunny’s life. I also am famously known for my article After Black Power, Women’s Liberation as a feminist leader when it was published in 1969. Other than many of the articles have written I am also partly responsible for the creation of a few magazine’s such as both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine. I only helped create New York Magazine, but I was the co-founder of Ms. Magazine which is feminist themed and which also sold out in 8 days of its first publication.
Is there any significant information involving your personal life?
There is one thing that I believe lead to me becoming a feminist which is that I used to read the Wonder Woman comics. I saw her as such a powerful woman and thought that there should have been more women like her in our society. I later then was a part in the restoration of Wonder Woman’s powers and traditional costume because I thought that she had been depowered. Also there’s a few simple things like how I survived breast cancer in the 80s or how I got an abortion when I was 22 in London. I have also been married once to David Bale on September 3, 2000 but he then died three years after our marriage. I believe that I have mentioned everything that has happened in my life that holds and significance beside the many awards that I have received, but I’d rather not list all those off.
Well, I was born March 25, 1934 in Toledo, Ohio. The beginning of my childhood was a little disorganized with my family moving about a lot because of my father’s job. Though finally in 1944 my parents got divorced and I had to live with my mother instead of my father. My father’s job was one of the reasons for the divorce, but also my mother had a mental illness that drove them apart. My mother and I went to live in a run down house in Toledo, Ohio where I would learn to take care of her instead of the other way around. This made me a have to be my mother’s caregiver instead of the other way around. I finally got away from my mother and the responsibility that I held on my back for far too long when I went to college and Smith college where I studied government. At that time though it was very uncommon for a women to study government, but that did not stop me. When I did finish college though I did not pursue a career in government, but instead …show more content…
became a freelance writer. However, I did grow an interest in the women’s movement and feminism.
You said before that you grew an interest in the women’s movement and feminism, so what did you then do to support feminism?
Well my journalism career was my main source in which I supported feminism, but I did do several other things and some of them were not mainly about feminism.
For one, I signed the “War Tax Protest” pledge in 1968 which was not about feminism, but more just an act of political activism where I vowed to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Though one thing I did for the women’s movement was campaign for the Equal Rights Amendment and also published an essay in 1969 about what it would be like if a women won the election to be president. On July 10, 1971, I was one of 300 women who founded the National Women’s Political Caucus and I also was one of the people who addressed at the first national conference of Stewardesses for Women’s Rights in 1973. Finally, I think the last important thing I did for just political activism in general was get arrested in 1984 for disorderly conduct outside the South African embassy while protesting against the South African apartheid
system.
What were some important things that you did in your journalism career?
During the beginning of my career when I was a young writer I was often hired to write about more of the feministic topics rather than the political topics or controversial topics I wished to write about. My big break as a writer did come though in 1963 when I wrote the article The Bunny’s Tale. I had gone undercover at a Playboy Club and had dressed as a waitress in a bunny costume so that I could experience a bunny’s life. I also am famously known for my article After Black Power, Women’s Liberation as a feminist leader when it was published in 1969. Other than many of the articles have written I am also partly responsible for the creation of a few magazine’s such as both New York Magazine and Ms. Magazine. I only helped create New York Magazine, but I was the co-founder of Ms. Magazine which is feminist themed and which also sold out in 8 days of its first publication.
Is there any significant information involving your personal life?
There is one thing that I believe lead to me becoming a feminist which is that I used to read the Wonder Woman comics. I saw her as such a powerful woman and thought that there should have been more women like her in our society. I later then was a part in the restoration of Wonder Woman’s powers and traditional costume because I thought that she had been depowered. Also there’s a few simple things like how I survived breast cancer in the 80s or how I got an abortion when I was 22 in London. I have also been married once to David Bale on September 3, 2000 but he then died three years after our marriage. I believe that I have mentioned everything that has happened in my life that holds and significance beside the many awards that I have received, but I’d rather not list all those off.