Collecting the Sisterhood
by Elizabeth Hanes
While the Democrats meet to plot campaign strategies at
their national convention this week, members of the
feminist group “Axis of Eve” will be doing a different
sort of plotting. They plan to storm the Republican
National Convention in September, protesting
conservative politics by flashing panties emblazoned
with political slogans like “Expose Bush.” It’s not the
first time women have wielded underwear as a tool of
political protest. To symbolize their fight for social
freedoms, feminist leaders of the 1800s adopted freedom
of dress: outfits of loose-fitting, knee-length skirts
paired with poufy Turkish pantaloons.
