Sidney Abbott

Sidney Abbott
Rayuwa
Haihuwa	Amurka, 11 ga Yuli, 1937
ƙasa	Tarayyar Amurka
Mutuwa	Southold (en) , 15 ga Afirilu, 2015
Karatu
Makaranta	Smith College (en)
Sana'a
Sana'a	marubuci

Sidney Abbott (an haife ta a ranar 11 ga watan yulin shekarar 1937 kuma ta mutu a ranar 15 ga watan Afrilun shekarar 2015) 'yar kasar Amurka ce mai kare hakkin mata,'yar madigo kuma marubuciya. Tsohuwar memba ce ta Lavender Menace, tare da ita aka wallafa Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism da kuma Barbara Love, kuma ta kasance daya daga cikin masu yawan magana da aiki a Ƙungiyar Mata ta Ƙasa. Kazalika ta taimakawa kungiyar ta mata don mayar da hankali ba wai kan 'yancin mata ba kawai, har ma da 'yancin madigo.

Rayuwa da aiki

An haifi Sidney Afton Abbott a shekara 1937 a cikin iyalin sojoji, inda ta kwatanta kanta a matsayin 'yar iskan soja. Ta halarci Kwalejin Smith na shekaru uku, kuma ta kammala karatu daga Jami'ar New Mexico a shekarar 1961. Daga nan ta halarci Jami'ar Columbia don kammala karatun digiri, tana karatun tsarin birane .

A shekarar 1969 ta shiga kungiyar National Organization for Women (NOW) kuma ta zama ɗaya daga cikin mutanen farko da suka yi magana game da 'yancin madigo a cikin sassan New York na NOW da a Jami'ar Columbia . Abbott ta kasance memba na Lavender Menace kuma ta rubuta Sappho Was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism a 1971, tare da Barbara Love .

A tsakiyar shekarun 1970s, tare da Barbara Love, ta yi sha'awar samar da wata runduna ta NOW da za a kafa don mai da hankali kan lamuran madigo, daga karshe an kafa rundunar. Kungiyar ta NOW da farko sun fara ba wa ƙungiyar suna "sexuality and lesbian task force ," kuma Abbott ya zama dole ya yi aiki tare da kungiyar madigo. A taron NOW na kasa a Philadelphia a cikin 1976, Abbott ta bukaci kashi 1% na kasafin kuɗi na ƙungiyoyi ya kamata ya tafi wurin aiki, kuma ya yi nasara. A yayin taron, daya ne kawai daga cikin kudurori biyu da aka zartar.

Abbott ta yi aiki a kwamitin National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, kuma ta yi aiki don tabbatar da cewa hukumar kungiyar ta kasance daidai gwargwado maza da mata 'yan madigo. Shugaban gundumar Manhattan ne ya nada ta ga hukumar tsara al’umma; ita ce 'yar luwadi ta farko da ta fara yin hakan. Ta kuma yi aiki a matsayin mai haɓaka shirye-shirye na sassan biyu a cikin gwamnatin birnin New York . Ta kasance shugabar cibiyar New York Performing Arts Center, kuma ta kasance mai siyasa a yankin Fork na Arewa na Long Island, New York.

Abbott da Kate Millett, Phyllis Birkby, Alma Routsong, da Artemis Maris sun kasance daga cikin kuniyar CR One, ƙungiya ta farko ta wayar da kan jama'a akan madigo-mata.

Shekarun Baya

Abbott ta zauna a Southold, New York. A shekara ta 2007, ta kafa Women's Rights are Human Rights ta kyauta. A cikin shekarar 2008, ta fara wasiƙar labarai, A cikin Takalmanmu, game da siyasa, aji, da talauci. sirri suna cikin tarin Sophia Smith a Kwalejin Smith da kuma a cikin tarin mata na Kwalejin Radcliff na tarihin rayuwar NOW.

Mutuwa

Abbott ta mutu a gobarar cikin gida da akayi a Southold, New York ta ranar 15 ga Afrilu, 2015.

Ayyuka

• Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love (1972). "Is Women's Liberation a Lesbian Plot?". Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power and Powerlessness. New American Library. ISBN 978-0-465-09199-7.
• Sidney Abbott; Barbara Love (1977). Sappho was a Right-on Woman: A Liberated View of Lesbianism. Stein and Day. ISBN 978-0-8128-2406-3.