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Filmmakers
Lisa Ades
“Miss America”
Bobbie Birleffi and Beverly Kopf
“Chely Wright: Wish Me Away”
Nicole Clark
“Cover Girl Culture: Awakening the Media Generation”
Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame
“Catherine Roraback Tribute”
Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering
“The Invisible War”
Mary Dore
“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
Andrea K. Elovson
“Breaking the Rule of Thumb”
Eve Ensler
“One Billion Rising”
Joyce Follet
“Step by Step: Building a Feminist Movement 1941-1977”
Joanne Grant
“Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker”
Catherine E. C. Hughes
“Madeleine May Kunin: Political Pioneer”
Jeff Kaufman
“The State of Marriage”
Carol King
“Passing the Torch”
Sharon La Cruise
“Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock”
Jennifer Lee
“Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation”
Aaron Lehmann
“Who is Unita Blackwell?”
Marion Lipschutz and Rose Rosenblatt
“The Education of Shelby Knox”
Margaret Chase Smith Foundation
“The Life of Senator Margaret Chase Smith”
Mary Mazzio
“A Hero for Daisy”
Cynthia Salzman Mondell and Allen Mondell
“Sisters of ’77”
Sylvia Morales
“A Crushing Love: Chicanas, Motherhood and Activism”
Marcia Rock and Patricia Lee Stotter
“Service: When Women Come Marching Home”
Catherine Russo
“A Moment in Her Story: Stories from the Boston Women's Movement”
Julian Schlossberg and Seymour Wishman
“Sex and Justice”
Spring Point Media Center
“On the Job: Women Launching a New Tradition”
Terese Svoboda and Steve Bull
“Margaret Sanger: A Public Nuisance”
Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport
“Media Coverage and Female Athletes”
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1971 The Click! Moment
The idea of the “Click! moment” was coined by Jane O’Reilly. “The women in the group looked at her, looked at each other, and ... click! A moment of truth. The shock of recognition. Instant sisterhood... Those clicks are coming faster and faster. They were nearly audible last summer, which was a very angry summer for American women. Not redneck-angry from screaming because we are so frustrated and unfulfilled-angry, but clicking-things-into-place-angry, because we have suddenly and shockingly perceived the basic disorder in what has been believed to be the natural order of things.” Article, “The Housewife's Moment of Truth,” published in the first issue of Ms. Magazine and in New York Magazine. Republished in The Girl I Left Behind, by Jane O'Reilly (Macmillan, 1980). Jane O'Reilly papers, Schlesinger Library.