The Eagle Forum

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This paper discusses the Eagle Forum, founded in 1972 with one major purpose, to stop the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) from being passed and how since then it has grown into a powerful lobby of volunteer organizations engaged in a variety of conservative causes, including campaigns against legalizing homosexual marriages and teaching sex education in public schools. It examines the underlying principles of women who consider the feminism of groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW) an assault on the rights of women. It looks at the principles that underlie its current conservative campaigns and how, despite its distorted views on women's equality, the Eagle Forum has made significant contributions towards women's rights and mainstream feminism in the United States.

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"Just as the Eagle Forum's blanket definition of the feminist agenda as "anti-family" is wrong, it would also be unfair to label Phyllis Schlafly and her followers as anti-feminist or anti-women because of their stand against the ERA. After all, the Eagle Forum was initially formed by women, not men. Like feminists, the Eagle Forum states that women should have choices. As one Eagle Forum member states, "We think (women) should also be able to be a full-time homemaker. It's not that we say one is intrinsically better than the other."

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