Herstory/History
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Tribute to Bettye Lane
Bettye Lane was almost always there when I chose an event to photograph that I thought would be important for women’s history, such as the demonstrations to legalize abortion in NYC, 1971, at the NY Times for the use of the term Ms, 1974, in support of the Women of Iran, 1979. She had started photographing before I did and her death in 2012 was a tremendous loss including to me personally. I had visited her in her Westbeth studio in NYC and we frquently corresponded about the use without permission or credit by the Veteran Feminists of America, WASM, and Midge Costanza’s website for her “political bootcamp.,” among other instances of predatory use of our work. A tribute page to her is included as one of the new pages in the reprint Diana Mara Henry has published of the official document, The Spirit of Houston: The First National Women’s conference.
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Photo of Bettye Lane taken at the Sarah Institute’s exhibit of Judy Chicago’s work, one of the many events at which only she and DMH came to record such special events. Form the UMass Amherst’s Du Bois Library’s Special Collection, Diana Mara Henry: Twentieth Century Photographer
The Untold Story of the Torch Relay
"Taking it the the Streets: The Untold story of the Tumultuous 3,000-Mile Torch relay to the 1977 Women's National Conference" is the topic Danielle Friedman will be presenting to the Organization of American Historians 2022 conference on April 2.
Author of Let's Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World (January 2022). Out now!
“Danielle Friedman’s fact-packed but bouncy new book about women and exercise in 20th-century America … is very much ‘pro’ exercise, but for the right reasons: not slimming down but mood management, community, spirituality in the corporal.” —The New York Times
Let’s Get Physical reclaims these forgotten origin stories—and shines a spotlight on the trailblazers who led the way.
Outstanding writings on the history of the First National Women’s Conference.
Here is “With the Women at Houston: Feminism as National Politics.” Published in The Nation, 12/10/77. Copyright © Lucy Komisar.
Photo of Gloria Steinem, Lucy Komisar, Liz Carpenter and Rita Elway copyright © Diana Mara Henry / www.dianamarahenry.com. “With the Women at Houston” copyright © Lucy Komisar.
