I can still remember how radical (in the sense of "getting to the root") Shulamith Firestone's 1970 book, The Dialectic of Sex, seemed when I read it. Reading the book led to my thinking about many feminist issues in new ways. While some of her predictions (like the end of biological pregnancy) haven't really come true, the ideas behind them helped change assumptions about women and our role in the family and world. Read more about this key writer of second wave feminism, and one of the organizations which she helped found:

• Shulamith Firestone - Radical Feminist Theorist Shulamith Firestone
• New York Radical Women

Courtesy Library of Congress, from the George Grantham Bain Collection.

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During the 1960s, the women's liberation movement had increased awareness that university education often lacked a woman's perspective. The first Women's Studies programs were created as scholars attempted to re-examine history, literature, anthropology, psychology, and other subjects, and to explore the missing perspective.

Read more: Creation of the First Women's Studies Departments

Though the winter holidays may be on your mind, teachers and others are soon going to be planning events for March 8, International Women's Day, or the month of March, Women's History Month in the United States. I'm inviting readers to share their experiences and projects so that others may learn from and be inspired by those to do their own projects, large or small. Here's a place for you to share your ideas with other readers of this site:

• Share Your Story: How have you honored Women's History Month or International Women's Day?