The Political Is Personal
A renowned Canadian activist gives her particular view of the women’s movement October 2005
Judy Rebick’s Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution explains how “radical uppity women” made the Canadian women’s movement “the broadest, most interesting and most successful in the world.” Rebick claims that enough has been written about the achievements of “liberal, middle-class women who already had a certain amount of privilege.” But “radical uppity women make people in power nervous,” and she says that is why “they are disappeared from history whenever possible.” Most histories are written from “a single perspective” but Ten Thousand Roses is…