Carol Giardina
Carol Giardina is a history professor, author, and feminist activist.
Life
[edit]While in college at the University of Florida, beginning in 1963 she helped her classmates find people who would perform then-illegal abortions.[1][2]
She was a protestor at the Miss America protest of 1968.[3]
Later in 1968, she and Judith Brown co-founded Gainesville Women's Liberation, the first second-wave feminist organization in the American south.[2][4]
She is one of the activists featured in She's Beautiful When She's Angry,[5] a 2014 American documentary film about some of the women involved in the second-wave feminist movement in the United States.[6][7][8]
She is a professor of history at Queens College.[2][9]
She is a member of Redstockings.[10]
Book
[edit]- Giardina, Carol. Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970. United States: University Press of Florida, 2010.
Selected articles
[edit]- "Male Supremacy, Private Property, and the Family: A Critique of Engels, by Carol Giardina, The Radical Therapist, pages 3-4, Volume 1 Issue 3, August–September 1970
- "Marxism Without Male Supremacy", by Carol Giardina, 1970 (her thesis for a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Florida)
- "MOW to NOW: Black Feminism Resets the Chronology of the Founding of Modern Feminism", by Carol Giardina, Feminist Studies, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2018), pp. 736–765
- "Women's Studies or Women's Liberation Studies?", March 1991, by Carol Giardina
References
[edit]- ^ "I Helped My Classmates Get Illegal Abortions Before Roe. We Can't Go Back". jacobin.com.
- ^ a b c Shams, Amna (March 16, 2012). "Professor Giardina, a lifelong activist – The Knight News".
- ^ "No More Miss America: A Collective Memory of Liberatory Action".
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20240802185602/https://redstockings.org/images/stories/CatalogPDFs/Redstockings-WomensStudies.pdf
- ^ "The Women". She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
- ^ Scherker, Amanda (10 December 2014). "'She's Beautiful When She's Angry' Tells The Feminist History Left Out Of Your School Textbook". HuffPost. The Huffington Post. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ Scherstuhl, Alan (3 December 2014). "She's Beautiful When She's Angry Captures the Women Who Changed It All". The Village Voice. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ "The Team — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
- ^ "People". Women and Gender Studies.
- ^ "Carol Giardina". She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
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