THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Alice Wolfson
“The Women’s Movement Gave Me a Voice.”
Attorney, activist, author, organizer and pioneer in the women’s health movement. DC Women’s Liberation group’s governing structure, A Magic Quilt. “The Daughters of Lilith” collective. A founder of the National Women’s Health Network. Co-founded the Committee to Defend Reproductive Rights of the Coalition for the Medical Rights of Women in San Francisco. Author of the chapter “Clenched Fist, Open Heart,” published in the book The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices From Women’s Liberation.
Interviewed by Judith Waxman, June 2021
Photo. Alice Wolfson as seen in the film, “She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” by Mary Dore.
More About Alice:
- Alice Jacoby Wolfson ’61 is the recipient of the 2021 Millicent Carey McIntosh Award for Feminism, Barnard College
- A Pioneer In Women’s Health in the 1960s by Joanna Klein, July 26, 2021
- Interview with Alice Wolfson, Washington D.C. Lessons of the Sixties, April 2017
- National Women’s Health Network
- Alice is highlighted in the Mary Dore film, She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry
- “Right After That They Walked Out”: Alice Wolfson Recalls the Origins of the CIO by Alice Dodge Wolfson, Charlie Potter and Beth Friend
- The Nelson Pill Hearings 1970
- Cited in Barbara Love’s book, Feminists Who Changed America, page 498