Author: KEARON, Pamela
Title: Rules and Responsibilities for Leading Revolutionary (Feminist) Group
Publication: New York: The Feminists, 1969

Description: Softcover. White mimeographed quarto sheets with "The Feminist" address stamp on the first sheet. 5pp., rectos only. Near fine with with wear by the staple. A position statement for The Feminist, a second-wave radical women's group that also went by the name Feminists - A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles. The group was founded as a New York chapter of the National Organization for Women in 1968 with Ti-Grace Atkinson as the de facto leader. She believed that heterosexual sex was a form of oppression and marriage was legalized slavery. The position statement for the organization was written by Pamela Kearon, a founding member who explains that women were raised from birth into a "humiliating dependency and eternal childhood" under patriarchy. The Feminist believes in equality for all women, working together for a common good, but it was only achievable separate from men. As such, members living with a man were only counted as 1/3 of a member and married women were excluded entirely. This document sets out to clarify the need for rules and the importance of self-discipline within the organizational structure. Scarce. *OCLC* locates five copies of this five-page version.