1. Elizabeth Farians was an American religious studies scholar and feminist.
18 Facts About Elizabeth Farians
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Elizabeth Farians was an early member the National Organization of Women and is considered the first Catholic feminist to organize public protests and for over forty years she led a public fight against discrimination in religion.
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Elizabeth Farians, known as Betty, taught in K-12 schools as well as at the university level.
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Elizabeth Farians created the Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion in 1966.
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Elizabeth Farians convinced [Betty]Friedan that religion was the "root cause" of women's oppression and should be included as a core issue for the largely secular women's rights movement.
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In June 1966, Elizabeth Farians became the first woman to attend an annual meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America.
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Elizabeth Farians was one of the founders of NOW when it was created in 1966.
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Elizabeth Farians claimed that women were enraged with inequality within the church and would soon undertake significant resistance.
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Elizabeth Farians was the head of the National Organization for Women's Ecumenical Task Force on Women and Religion from 1966 to 1972, a group she founded.
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Elizabeth Farians did this in part through her creation of the group Catholics for the ERA.
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Elizabeth Farians served on the board of the Catholic feminist group Catholics for a Free Choice in the early 1970s.
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In May 1970, Elizabeth Farians testified before Congress on behalf of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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In 1965, Elizabeth Farians became involved with the US chapter of St Joan's Alliance, an organization of Catholic feminist women.
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Elizabeth Farians worked alongside notable Catholic feminist Frances McGillicuddy to bring this organization from the UK to the United States.
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Elizabeth Farians was hired as a theology professor by Loyola University in 1968.
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Elizabeth Farians was born to Hilda and Charles Elizabeth Farians in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1923.
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Elizabeth Farians was a vegan for over thirty years and was active with an animal rights group known as Animal Rights Community.
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Elizabeth Farians died in 2013 and her funeral was held in Cincinnati, Ohio.