Why were women from minority groups reluctant to participate in the new women's liberation movement?

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

The ideal answer should include:
- Priorities and goals of the new women's liberation movement: scathing critique of patriarchy by creating audacious acts of publicity; most activists were less flamboyant women who were trying to rise above gender-imposed limitations; met more often outside the limelight in consciousness-raising groups; "the personal is political"; goals included positive portrayals of women in media, healthcare and other centers for women and their children, and college-level women's studies programs
- Membership and leadership: bastion for middle-class white women
Goals and perspectives of minority women: gay women charged early NOW leaders with homophobia and found large pockets of "heterosexism" in the women's liberation movement; African American women remained wary of white women's appeal to sisterhood and formed their own "womanist" movement; Latina movement addressed issues uniquely relevant to women of color in an Anglo-dominated society