ERA Roundtable

This roundtable draws from the voices of activists and academics and aims to explore some of the challenges of renewing and sustaining interest in the continued advocacy of the Equal Rights Amendment. To narrow their focus, The author asked the roundtable participants to consider their essays as a g...

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Published in:Frontiers (Boulder) 2017-01, Vol.38 (2), p.1-40
Main Authors: Berry, Mary Frances, Chateauvert, Melinda, Cross, Katherine, Erickson, Jan, Francis, Roberta W, Grabenhofer, Bonnie, Hager, Bettina, Richards, Amy, D’Amore, Laura Mattoon
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activists
Equal Rights Amendment
ERA
Feminism
Gender equity
Non-binary gender
Politics
Symbolism
Women
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Summary:This roundtable draws from the voices of activists and academics and aims to explore some of the challenges of renewing and sustaining interest in the continued advocacy of the Equal Rights Amendment. To narrow their focus, The author asked the roundtable participants to consider their essays as a general response to these questions: 1. Is the ERA relevant to the twenty-first century? 2. How does/Does the ERA represent the issues of importance to various populations of women, including young women; women of color; trans women; LGBTQIA; etc? In their response to the roundtable questions, Mary Frances Berry and Melinda Chateauvert wrote Reform and Symbolism Are Not Enough: Equal Rights Means Gender Justice and Sexual Equality. The authors focus on the social and political barriers and challenges that an ERA faces now and caution that ERA activism will not succeed if it does not speak directly to relevance and inclusion.
ISSN:0160-9009
1536-0334
1536-0334
DOI:10.1353/fro.2017.a669199