The fight for the ERA didn't end after the events of MrsAmerica:
The FX on Hulu mini-series, Mrs. America, shows an intimate portrayal both of anti-choice activist, Phyllis Schlafly, and leading feminists of the 1970s—Gloria Steinem, Shirley Chisholm, Brenda Feigen, Betty Freidan, Bella Abzug, and more. The premise of the show is to tell the story of how progress on the Equal Rights Amendment stalls, but the mini-series does far more than that.
Ultimately, the misinformation spurred her into action. Throughout the series, Schlafly knowingly weaponized that same misinformation. This occurs, most clearly, in episode 5 , where Schlafly invents a court case to support her arguments against the ERA. 2. We must create intersectional and inclusive feminist spaces to achieve political victories. Through the mini-series, we see a number of challenges facing the women’s liberation movement. For instance, we see the fight to include lesbian rights in the platform of the National Women’s Political Caucus , and we also see a number of challenges facing women of color in the show.
Of course, the feminist movement has evolved in many ways, but Mrs. America shows us the very real danger of allowing our movement to exclude such intersectional perspectives from the work of social justice. As shown in Mrs. America, the ERA wasn’t actually a partisan issue. During its passage in Congress, 354 members in the House of Representatives and 84 Senators voted ‘yes’ on the ERA. In addition to broad public support, the ERA also enjoyed presidential support from the Nixon, Ford, and Carter administrations.
However, the congressional deadline to ratify the ERA passed in 1982. To complicate things, 5 states—Idaho, Kentucky, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Tennessee—initially approved the ERA ratification but subsequently voted to rescind it in the mid to late 1970s.
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