AWE (A Woman’s Experience)
Keywords
Alice Paul Equal Rights Amendment, Dianne Fife Kay Hana Pono Society, Nina Palmer Utah Association of Women
Abstract
When Alice Paul drafted the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1923, she had hoped it would become a unifying document for women across America. However, forty-nine years later, when Congress passed the amendment, radical feminists led the charge for its ratification. Paul, a prominent feminist, feared that the amendment became so politicized it was tearing apart the women’s movement. Dianne Fife Kay, an anti-ERA activist, described the period as a time in which “the enemy was no longer men, but our own sisters.” As Paul had feared, radical feminism had ruptured the sisterhood that first-wave feminism created.
Recommended Citation
Chipman, Grace
(2025)
"For the Enemy Is No Longer Men, But Our Own Sisters: Anti-ERA Activists Within the Feminist Narrative,"
AWE (A Woman’s Experience): Vol. 11, Article 19.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/awe/vol11/iss1/19