‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings

April 25, 2024

RH Reality Check | November 20, 2014

“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry” heralds the amazing work of Chicago’s Jane Collective, a well-trained group of laywomen who performed approximately 11,000 abortions between 1969 and 1973; the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, which first published “Our Bodies, Ourselves” as a newsprint pamphlet in 1971; and the intrepid organizing that pushed the Supreme Court to issue its Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.

Read the full story: ‘No Victories Are Permanent,’ Recalls Film About Feminism’s Beginnings by Eleanor J. Bader