"Toward a Female Liberation Movement," by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown

"Toward a Female Liberation Movement," by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown

Women's Liberation

In this 1968 essay, sometimes referred to as the "Florida Paper," Beverly Jones and Judith Brown put forth a strong, even incendiary, critique of the "Women's Manifesto," which was created by the Women's Caucus at the 1967 Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) convention. This document was originally published by the Southern Student Organizing Committee (SSOC). In the 1970 Handbook of Women's Liberation. Marlene Dixon wrote, "That started it if anything written started it. That paper just laid it on the line."

Beverly Jones and Judith Brown, published by New England Free Press

Roz Payne

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

1968

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