The Nation: Women's Liberation Revisited

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ROBIN MORGAN: "Radical feminism is digging in for the long haul, trying to build on women's needs in terms of women's anger. The Midwest is ahead of both coasts on this. The movement there is growing very organically and logically and strongly. The new assault is on the Catholic church. We are trying to separate an individual's faith from this corporation that has so oppressed women. The support from Catholic women is very strong as long as it is the institution, not the faith, that they understand is the problem.

"But I see the beginnings of repression, of backlash. Three places where I have spoken in the last four months there have been bomb scares. A fire bomb was thrown at my car in Michigan; two cars tried to force me off the road in Florida—and I had my baby with me. Still, when a middle-aged woman in Illinois gets up and says we have to seize the genetic code, something's happening!"

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