Saturday's Child (81 page)

RM and Marilyn Waring, New Zealand, 1989.

At the farm, early 1990s.

1984, photographed by “Iliana.”

With Palestinian refugee women in Rafah Camp, the Gaza Strip, during the Intifada, 1989.

With village women in Baluwa, Sindhupalchowk District, Nepal, 1994; two hundred women walked miles from six different villages for an electrifying all-day meeting.

The first defiant, illegal NGO demonstration in Hairou, China during the 1995 UN World Women's Conference at Beijing, RM holds aloft the “Don't Forget Tiananmen Square” sign, which no one else would carry and which nearly caused her arrest.

With Sarah and Evelyn, fifth-generation farm workers in the Afrikaner-owned vineyards of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 1998.

With former U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug, mid-1980s.

RM's 1989 publication party for Waring's economics book; l. to r.: RM, Waring, Steinem, Kate Millett, Andrea Dworkin.

The 1990
Mother Jones
cover story on relaunching the new, ad-free
Ms
.

After addressing the rally of half a million people, at NOW's 1989 Washington, D.C., March for Women's Lives.

Photograph Credits

With Bill “Bojangles” Robinson: Lou Layne

With Steve Allen: CBS Photo Archive

With Rosalind Russell: Empire Photographs

Age six, with the R.M. doll: Jerry Saltsberg & Associates

The
Mama
show and Hanson family photographs: CBS Photo Archive

Sisterhood Is Global
contributors: Robin Platzer, Twin Images

The 1990
Mother Jones
cover:
Mother Jones
magazine (Nov/Dec 1990)

Incidental snapshots: Private collection of the Author

The Publisher has made every effort to contact all copyright holders. If the proper acknowledgments have not been made, please contact the Publisher.

Index

Abbott, Bud,
74

Abe, Kobo,
480

abortion,
91
,
196–97
,
239
,
255
,
264
;
see also
reproductive rights

Abzug, Bella,
344

congressional career of,
13
,
242–43
,
306
,
328
,
449
,
471

death of,
475–76

RM's friendship with,
338
,
366
,
433
,
467
,
475

at UN women's conference,
341
,
412–13
,
462
n

widowhood of,
447
,
471

Abzug, Martin,
449
,
471

ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union),
254

Adams, Leonie,
183

Adler, Loni,
xiv

adolescence, cultural differences on,
19

advertising:

editorial influence of,
93n

women's cultural images in,
92
,
265

affinity group actions,
239

Afkhami, Mahnaz,
428
,
440

African National Congress (ANC),
421

AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists),
97
,
98–99

Agee, James,
33

ageism,
370

aging process,
473–78

Aidoo, Ama Ata,
339–40

Akhmatova, Anna,
467

Albee, Edward,
214

alchemy,
465

Aldrich, Richard,
86

Alexander, Denise,
80

Alexander, Jane,
80

Algren, Nelson,
404

Alice in Wonderland
,
84
,
90
,
102

Allen, Donna,
259n

Allen, Mel,
75

Allen, Steve,
71

Almana, Aisha,
386

Aloni, Shulamit,
386

Alpert, Jane,
289
,
311
,
326

Altman, Martha,
292

Altman, Robert,
80–81

Alvarez, A.,
310

Amatniek, Kathie (Sarachild),
262–63
,
265
,
281
,
282–83
,
317
n