"Bra-burning" created an image that women were not really seeking freedom from sexism, but were attempting to assert themselves as sexual beings. This might lead individuals to believe, as she wrote in her article "Feminism, Miss America, and Media Mythology", that the women were merely trying to be "trendy, and to attract men". [32][33][34][35 ...

2018年9月6日 · Protesting outside Miss America 1968, women threw mops, make-up and bras into a "Freedom Trash Can" - but never set them alight.

2022年2月28日 · The 1968 Miss America protest in Atlantic City, NJ, is widely considered the birth of the “bra-burners” but organizers say that no bras were burned. Student Grace Moore set out to investigate the myth and the lasting implications for feminism.

The bra-burning protests were a visible manifestation of the broader Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. This movement sought to address various issues, …

2019年7月3日 · Feminists in the 1960s burned their bras. We've all heard that—even if it just isn't so. Find out the real story behind the fable.

2008年9月5日 · Women threw bras, mops, girdles, pots and pans, and Playboy magazines — items they called "instruments of female torture" — into a big garbage can.

2000年11月26日 · During a demonstration by feminists at the 1968 Miss America pageant, some bras -- along with numerous other items -- were burned when a trash receptacle was briefly set alight. The feminists did...

2018年9月6日 · Fifty years ago, a protest against a Miss America beauty pageant in New Jersey sparked off the iconic - and mythical - image of the "bra-burning feminist". A group of women hurled mops, lipsticks...

2014年6月12日 · Bras were never burned at the 1968 Miss America protest, but that the image persists shows how full of holes our knowledge is of the Women's Liberation Movement.

2022年4月10日 · A story by Lindsy Van Gelder in the New York Post carried a headline “Bra Burners and Miss America.” Her story drew an analogy between the feminist protest and Vietnam War protesters who burned their draft cards. Individuals who were present said that no one burned a bra nor did anyone take off her bra.