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Riddle, Mary, 1949-

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1949-

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Activist Women Oral History Project

 Collection
Identifier: W071
Abstract The Activist Women Oral History Project was established in 2006, and forms part of the Archives for Research on Women. This project is broad in scope, and the subject matter includes domestic violence, women's health and reproductive justice, politics, policy making and the law, child sex trafficking, philanthropy, community activism, art and culture, equality in the workplace, civil rights, and LGBTQ activism. The ongoing and growing Activist Women Oral History Project contains over 40 oral...
Dates: 2005-2016

Georgia Women's Movement Oral History project

 Collection
Identifier: W008
Abstract

The Georgia Women's Movement Oral History Collection began in 1995 as part of the Georgia Women's Movement Project, a joint undertaking of the Women's Studies Institute of Georgia State University and the Special Collections Department of the University Library. Although the focus of the collection has been the Equal Rights Amendment, also covered are many topics relating to the lives of women throughout the twntieth and twenty-first centuries.

Dates: 1995-2010

Mary Riddle oral history interview, July 24, 2004

 Item — Othertype Oral History
Identifier: W008_RiddleM_20040724
Scope and Contents Interviewed by Janet Paulk. Riddle recounts a childhood in which she and her family moved around a great deal. She says that her earliest feminist activity was to run for a high school office, with the slogan, “Not the best man for the job, the best candidate.” She remembers becoming very interested in feminism in the early 1970s, at which time, while working and studying in Atlanta, she read Betty Freidan’s Feminine Mystique, and the newly circulating Ms magazine. Riddle states that her...
Dates: July 24, 2004

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Women in public life 1