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3 unusual facts about Francine Gottfried


Francine Gottfried

A nice Jewish girl who lived at home with her parents in Williamsburg, she wasn't seeking notoriety and started taking a different route to work.

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She was referenced as a cultural icon of the era in Thomas Hauser's novel Finding the Princess.

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The events of September 1968 made an impression on New York City feminists, and in March 1970, feminists retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In," in which a large group of feminists, including Karla Jay, Alix Kates Shulman, and a number of women who had participated in the sit-in at Ladies Home Journal a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work.



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