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Related: About this forumLaura Bush to Receive Alice Paul Award??
Is Laura Bush feminist enough for Alice Paul Award?
By Annie Groer
Does former first lady Laura Bush possess the feminist cred and chops to receive a prize named for one of Americas most militant suffragists who for years was heckled, jailed and even force-fed during a prison hunger strike to win the vote for women in 1920?
Depends whom you ask about the Alice Paul Award, which the board of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum will give to Laura Bush in September. Since 1929, this Capitol Hill landmark has been home to the National Womans Party, and occasionally, to Paul herself.
One of the most vocal Bush-bashers is Sonia Pressman Fuentes, 84, who spent nearly two decades on the Sewall-Belmont board and co-founded the National Organization For Women. Now living in Sarasota, she said by phone that she helped draft a protest letter signed by more than 20 women because people were stunned by the selection.
Laura Bush is not known as a champion of womens rights. She has done little or nothing to advance American womens equality, the letter contended. Her advocacy on behalf of Afghan women is commendable, but she has been conspicuously absent in every major arena of American womens rights. Nor has she challenged her partys anti-feminist agenda in any meaningful way. To give the Alice Award to such a partisan political figure in an election year is highly questionable. To give it to a non-feminist Republican figurehead, at a time when the Republican Party is doing its utmost to demolish womens hard-fought rights, reflects a stunning lapse of judgment.
By Annie Groer
Does former first lady Laura Bush possess the feminist cred and chops to receive a prize named for one of Americas most militant suffragists who for years was heckled, jailed and even force-fed during a prison hunger strike to win the vote for women in 1920?
Depends whom you ask about the Alice Paul Award, which the board of the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum will give to Laura Bush in September. Since 1929, this Capitol Hill landmark has been home to the National Womans Party, and occasionally, to Paul herself.
One of the most vocal Bush-bashers is Sonia Pressman Fuentes, 84, who spent nearly two decades on the Sewall-Belmont board and co-founded the National Organization For Women. Now living in Sarasota, she said by phone that she helped draft a protest letter signed by more than 20 women because people were stunned by the selection.
Laura Bush is not known as a champion of womens rights. She has done little or nothing to advance American womens equality, the letter contended. Her advocacy on behalf of Afghan women is commendable, but she has been conspicuously absent in every major arena of American womens rights. Nor has she challenged her partys anti-feminist agenda in any meaningful way. To give the Alice Award to such a partisan political figure in an election year is highly questionable. To give it to a non-feminist Republican figurehead, at a time when the Republican Party is doing its utmost to demolish womens hard-fought rights, reflects a stunning lapse of judgment.
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Laura Bush to Receive Alice Paul Award?? (Original Post)
boston bean
Jun 2012
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Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)1. Coke-Jawed Angel?
Gman
(24,780 posts)2. Couldn't have said it better myself
Little Star
(17,055 posts)3. Yet, she belongs to a political party that is trying...
like hell to take away the rights of American women when it comes to having control over their own bodies.
Wow! Just Wow!
seabeyond
(110,159 posts)4. wow... that really is offensive. and i have no bone against laura bush
she was ok enough. but, that would be about like handing it to me. and as much i love me, that would be stupid, offensive and unearned and easily recognized.