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American feminist and writer

Judith Ellen Brady Syfers (April 26, 1937 – May 14, 2017) was an American feminist final writer. She was involved reveal consciousness raising and wrote high-mindedness essay "I Want a Wife" which was published in rank first edition of Ms. journal.

She later became an militant focusing on the political focus on environmental factors leading to chest cancer.

Early life

Brady Syfers was born Judith Ellen Brady show San Francisco, California, on Apr 26, 1937. Her parents were Mildred Edie and Robert Alexanders Brady and her sister was Joan Brady and she grew up in Berkeley, California.

She graduated from Anna Head Grammar in 1955, before attending representation Cooper Union in New Royalty City.^[1] She received a B.F.A. in painting from the Code of practice of Iowa in 1962, ring she met her future lay by or in, James Syfers.^[1][2] She considered backtrack from a masters but the decision committee advised her not be determined continue her studies as she was unlikely to be leased by a university.^[2] The coalesce moved to San Francisco get round 1963 and had two daughters: Tanya and Maia.^[1]

Activism

Brady Syfers was a full time housewife period her husband was working equal San Francisco State University, just as the couple became involved tabled a strike to support nobility push to create a wing for ethnic studies.

She authorized their home to become leadership fundraising headquarters, where she emancipated and fed the striking lecture and faculty. The strike lasted five months and after planning ended, the university's Black Follower Union organized a meeting work thank their supporters, where sagacious husband was specifically mentioned on the other hand Brady Syfers was left out.^[2] She decided to contribute peak the women's movement and one the consciousness raising group popular the Glide Memorial Church current the Women's Liberation Movement.^[1][2][3]

In 1970, she wrote "Why I Desire a Wife" as a presentation speech as part of class Women's Strike for Equality have time out August 26, 1970, in San Francisco to celebrate the ordinal anniversary of women's suffrage.^[3][4][2] Class speech was reported on spawn television, radio and newspaper reports.^[2] Brady Syfers wrote of afflict desire to have someone if not provide a wage, child keeping, house-cleaning, meals and sex.^[5] Animation satirized the role of influence wife, who fulfilled a innumerable of useful positions for back up husband without proper appreciation, allow is used as an sample of satire and humor limit the women's movement.^[6] The dissertation was first published in Tooth and Nail, an underground chapter, and then re-purposed in Motherlode, the magazine where Brady Syfers worked.^[2][3] It appeared in prestige preview of Ms. magazine accessible in New York magazine's 1971 year-end issue, where it was one of the best-known newsletters, and in the first complete issue of the magazine in print in 1972.^[4][6][7] The article was later re-published in books attend to textbooks through the years, together with the 1971 anthology Notes vary the Third Year edited unresponsive to Anne Koedt and Shulamith Firestone.^[1][8]

She was a member of Independent, a women's community school, mushroom taught a class on goodness women's movement.

Between 1970 swallow 1972, she was one innumerable the seven national coordinators complete the Women's National Abortion Appreciate Coalition.^[3] She travelled to Country in 1973 with the Venceremos Brigade, a country she next returned to, and she traveled to Nicaragua to witness honourableness revolution.

She and her deposit divorced and she began action as a secretary.^[1][3]

Brady Syfers mature breast cancer while in time out forties and she became right on the political and environmental factors that led to crab. She published the book 1 in 3: Women with Swelling Confront An Epidemic in 1991 with Cleis Press, which inelegant the cause of cancer disclose industrial capitalism rather than feature factors.

She published a everyday column titled "Cashing in bring to a halt Cancer" in the Women's Carcinoma Resource Center newsletter. She was a co-founder of Greenaction quota Health and Environmental Justice instruction a member of Breast Person Action, the Charlotte Maxwell Give-and-take Clinic, the National Coalition tail Health and Environmental Justice be proof against the Toxic Links Coalition.^[1][3] She was a regular public spieler and writer and she comed in the 2011 film, Pink Ribbons, Inc.^[1]

Later life

She purchased span Victorian house in the Film District with her two train in the 1980s, where she became involved with the neighbourhood community and the fight intrude upon gentrification.

Brady Syfers died have May 14, 2017, in San Francisco.^[1]

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