Carol Giardina

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Carol Giardina (born 1946) is a feminist activist, a writer, and a history professor. [1] [2] [3]

Biography

In 1963, she started a referral network for then-illegal abortions at the University of Florida in Gainesville. [4]

In 1968, she and Judith Brown founded Gainesville Women's Liberation, the first women's liberation group in the American south. [5] Giardina was also one of the protestors at the Miss America protest in 1968, [6] and that same year attended two founding women's liberation movement conferences, one in Lake Villa, Illinois, and the other in Sandy Spring, Maryland. [1]

She is one of the feminists with an entry in the 2006 book Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975, edited by Barbara Love. [1]

She wrote the 2010 book Freedom for Women: Forging the Women’s Liberation Movement, 1953-1970. [2]

She is featured in the 2014 feminist history film She's Beautiful When She's Angry . [7] [8] [9]

She is a member of Redstockings. [5]

She is also a history professor at Queens College. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Barbara J. Love, ed. (22 September 2006). Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press. pp. 172–. ISBN   978-0-252-09747-8.
  2. 1 2 Carol Giardina (2010). Freedom for Women: Forging the Women's Liberation Movement, 1953-1970. University Press of Florida. ISBN   978-0-8130-3692-2.
  3. 1 2 "Queens College, City University of New York". www.qc.cuny.edu.
  4. "Carol Giardina". She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
  5. 1 2 "Boston Conference present description". www.redstockings.org.
  6. "Protesting Miss America, But Not In Two-Part Harmony". News. September 7, 2018.
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