THE VFA PIONEER HISTORIES PROJECT
Dr. Naomi Weisstein
October 16, 1939 – March 26, 2015
“The Women’s Movement Came From Chicago, No Matter What the New Yorker’s Think.”
Pioneering neuroscientist, author, educator, activist. Co-founder, Chicago Westside Group, 1967. Founder of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, 1970-73.
More About Naomi:
- Naomi Weisstein Memorial Celebration
- Naomi Weisstein Memorial: The New School
- Naomi Weissstein, by Heather Booth
- The Life and Work of Naomi Weisstein, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union Herstory Project
- Archives
- Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute
- The Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
- Veteran Feminists of America
- Publication Debut of Barbara Love’s, Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975, Columbia University Faculty House and Barnard College, NYC. November 2006
- “Unfinished Business of the Women’s Movement,” Honoring Midwest Feminists, Chicago, IL, August 2004.
- The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women’s Liberation, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Barr Snitow, published in 1998.
- The Last of the Red Hot Mammas, or, the Liberation of Women as Performed by the Inmates of the World, 1969
- Jesse Lemisch, VFA Pioneer Histories Project
- Wikipedia