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Thanks
for your note to FEMINIST.COM.
Aerobics videos aside, I think
that Jane Fonda has always been
minimally involved in the women's
rights movement. She was a great
friend of Bella Abzug's and
via that relationship and due
to her own initiation, she was
active politically in the fight
for the ERA. Most recently she
has been involved with the women's
movement via the girls empowerment
movement and via the United
Nations--specifically UNIFEM.
You should contact them directly
to learn about what specifically
she has done.
She also does a lot of work
via the Atlanta Women's Fund.
In the current issue of Modern
Maturity, Gloria Steinem
says: "I don't know how to say
this, but look at Jane Fonda.
She is someone whose father
was not absent physically, but
who apparently was quite distant
and cold, and she has not apparently
overcome that. I say this from
a distance. My heart goes out
to her. She had done many, many
good things and does ever more.
She runs projects in Atlanta
with teenage girls and teen-pregnancy
prevention. But I have the feeling,
I've never had this conversation
with her--that she is amazed
when women survive and are happy
without men. It's presumptuous
of me to feel sad on her behalf,
but sometimes I do. She's reinvented
herself before, Maybe there
will be yet another--as a free
old woman."
To
learn more specifically, perhaps
you could call the above mentioned
groups and/or Jane Fonda's office
at CNN in Atlanta. Good
luck.
—Amy
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