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An active participant in the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s , Reed was a founging member of the Women’s National Abortion Action Coalition in 1971 . During these years she spoke and debated on women’s rights in cities throughout the United States , Canada , Australia , New Zealand , Japan , Ireland , the United Kingdom and France . Inspired especially of the works on women and the family by and Mary-Alice Waters .) Many of these books have been translated into other languages. She was nominated as a candidate for President of the United States for the Socialist Workers Party in the United States Presidential Election, 1972 . On the ballot in just Indiana , New York , and Wisconsin , she received 13,878 votes. The main candidate for the Party was Linda Jenness who received 37,423 votes. Election was won by incumbent President Richard Nixon of the Republican Party .
QUOTE "The woman question can only be resolved through the lineup of working men and women against the ruling men and women. This means that the interests of the workers as a ''class'' are identical; and not the interests of all women as a ''sex''. Ruling-class women have exactly the same interest in upholding and perpetuating capitalist society as their men have. The bourgeois feminists fought, among other things, for the right of women as well as men to hold property in their own name. They won this right. Today, plutocratic women hold fabulous wealth in their own names. They are completely in alliance with the plutocratic men to perpetuate the capitalist system. They are not in alliance with the working women, whose needs can only be served through the abolition of capitalism. Thus, the emancipation of working women will not be achieved in alliance with women of the enemy class, but just the opposite; in a struggle ''against'' them as part and parcel of the whole class struggle." - ''Cosmetics, Fashions, and the Exploitation of Women'' EXTERNAL LINKS
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