A Burkeian Analysis of the Rhetoric of Gloria Steinem Page: 90
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-work for improvement in Family Law.
-use legal recourse to eliminate discrimination.40
The Dallas Women for Change organization was started at
a meeting on October 16, 1971. The purpose of the meeting
was to create an "organization directed to the special inter-
ests of women through the creation of a Women's Center,
which would support and undergird individuals and groups,
initiate change and provide fresh channels for education,
communication, and action.''41 The attendance at the October
meeting was three hundred, of which two hundred fifty became
the initial membership. By the summer of 1972, the member-
ship was seven hundred.42 The organization's increase in
membership could possibly be attributed to the interest
in the Women's Liberation Movement which had been generated
by Gloria Steinem in the spring of 1972, at Fincher Audi-
torium on the Southern Methodist University Campus.
Also involved in the cluster of conditions surround-
ing the context of circumstances on February 3, 1972, were
the paramount issues of the Women's Liberation Movement.
First, the United States Supreme Court had begun hearings
on the abortion laws of Texas, in the case of Roe vs. Wade,
and Georgia in the case of Doe vs. Bolton. Women in the
Dallas area could be directly involved in the abortion
issue by participating in the Abortion Education Committee
of Dallas. Other issues of great importance during the
particular time period included credit discrimination because
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Timmerman, Susan McCue. A Burkeian Analysis of the Rhetoric of Gloria Steinem, thesis, August 1973; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc935569/m1/96/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .