The feminist movement was widespread in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Feminism in 1972 was in the news and the women's liberation movement was a part of many women's lives.
Here are a few important events of feminism in 1972:
- In March, the U.S. Senate passed the Equal Rights Amendment and sent it to the states for ratification.
- Ms. magazine began regular publication.
- The legislation most commonly known as Title IX passed, prohibiting sex discrimination in educational institutions that receive federal funding.
- The Supreme Court case Eisenstadt v. Baird overturned laws that restricted unmarried persons' access to contraception.
- The journal Feminist Studies was first published.
- Memoirs of an Ex Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman was published.
- Cindy Nemser and other feminist artists founded Feminist Art Journal, which lasted through 1977.
- Feminist art students staged the provocative exhibit Womanhouse in an abandoned house in Los Angeles.