FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA 1963-1975

ANN J. JAWIN HONORED IN FEMINIST TRIBUTE

Ann Juliano Jawin of Douglaston, Queens, New York City, a graduate of Hunter College, has been honored as one of the FEMINISTS WHO CHANGED AMERICA 1963 – 1975 in a new book released in late 2006.  Published by The University of Illinois Press, the book presents biographies of 2,200 women and men whose successful actions created the modern women’s movement.     Retails at $80.00 –616 pgs.

As an advocate for women in the professional, educational and political spheres, and longtime activist and community leader, Ann Jawin has made equal rights for women a focus of her life and work. 

Among the many honors she received in recognition of her contribution to women’ rights, she was awarded the Susan B. Anthony Award by NOW, NYC, the Ralph Bunche Award for Human Rights by the United Nations Association of the USA of Queens and was elected to the  Hall of Fame by the Hunter College Alumni Assn..

The editor, Barbara J. Love, headed the massive project that assembled and edited the biographies in partnership with the Veteran Feminists of America, a non-profit organization created to document the “Second Wave” movement and motivate younger generations.

“The foremost criterion for selection in the book was being a “change maker,” Love explained.  “More than previous social revolutions, ours grew from the struggles of thousands of individuals to erase thousands of separate forms of discrimination in every sector of society.”

At the celebration of the book’s event at Columbia University on November 13th

Gloria Steinem said, “No home, library, or school is complete without this guide to the women who looked at the world as if everybody mattered, and so began a revolution”. Kate Millet predicted, “This will be the basic text on American feminists of the late twentieth century.  All ideologies are included.  All ethnic groups, all aspects of the struggle, activists, academics, sport and labor pioneers, writers and artists.”

The Board of Directors of the Center for Women of NY has recognized that there are many women in the New York area who have stories that would have earned them a place in the book had they been known.

We are getting ready to celebrate our 20th year anniversary of our founding.  In honor of the occasion, we are inviting all feminists, men and women, who appeared in the book to our anniversary celebration.  We also invite all women who by virtue of their activity to create meaningful change should have been included, to send in their stories and we will place them in our CWNY honor roll and send them to the publisher for the second edition.

The dinner will take place on April 26th at the Sheraton-LaGuardia Hotel in Flushing at 6:30pm, 39th Avenue, Flushing, NY.  

The book is available on order Phone (800) 621-2736, email orders@press.uchicago.edu $80.00 plus postage. Order from CWNY and receive 10% discount $72.00 plus postage.

For further information about this special anniversary dinner honoring the “Feminists who Changed America,” please call 718.793.0672