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  Leadership and Class

  A discussion about the differences and challenges of the women's movement by various women. Personality, class tension, diversity, stereotyping, group identity, ideas of leadership are debated. The tension between lower class women and middleclass women is described in terms of leadership styles. Lower class women have a strong female role models to grow up with, this lacks completely for the middle class women. Action is perceived as a negative male trait by the middle class women, who are not used to take action but rather prefer moderation and security.

  Tags Class, Identity, leadership, middle-class feminism, Women's Liberation Movement, working-class feminism
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  Amy Klitsner Interview

  In this oral history conducted by the Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club, Amy Klitsner discuss her family, early life, her realization that she was a lesbian, her coming out process, and finding community with other women and lesbians.

  Tags Amy Klitsner, Jewish Lesbians, lower-middle class, middle-class feminism, Rossmoor Lesbian Social Club
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  Leadership, Self-concept, & Group Identity

  Four women from working-class backgrounds critique leadership and individualism in second-wave feminism. Karen Kollias, Rita Mae Brown, Dolores Bargowski, and Beverly Fisher discuss the exclusion they experience by middle-class feminists who do not hold the same values of strength and leadership, which are viewed as masculine and therefore threatening. Feelings of guilt and the role of the mother in lower-class homes are also discussed.

  Tags female masculinity, middle-class feminism, Rita Mae Brown, second wave feminism, working-class feminism, working-class lesbians