Disunity in Women's Movement

• Women activists frequently disagreed over tactics & issues
• Some members of NOW felt that the beliefs of Firestone & Atkinson & the dramatic demonstrations of some supporters of 'women's lib' made the American public less sympathetic
• Group of over 100 women disrupted the swim-suited parade- Miss America pageant in Atlantic City with a stink bomb & crowned a live sheep 'Miss America'- threw bras, girdles, curlers, false lashes, wigs & other 'women garbage' into a 'freedom trash can- singing: ' Atlantic city is a town without class, they raise your morals & they judge your ass'


  1968
• Some women activist disagreed over the demand of legalised abortions
• Breakaway groups such as the Radicalesbinas resented the lack of support from the NOW for lesbian women
• However despite disunity- The Women's Movement proved more lasting than most 1960's protest movements- its effectiveness was demonstrated by the response of the Federal GOV