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Envelope of light blue Indian Aerogramme, from Sheila Michaels to Mr. & Mrs. H.H. Kessler. There is a dark blue rhino stamp in the lower left corner of the receiver section and an Indian red plane stamp in the upper right corner that has been postmarked. There are red and dark blue stripes around the border and between the receiver and sender address sections. The receiving address reads "Mr. & Mrs. H.H. Kessler #7 Dromara Road St. Louis, Missouri U.S.A.". The sender address reads "Sheila Michaels c/o Pask Restoute, GPO. Delhi, India". Text written along the left side of the sender section reads "They (illegible) to the gods here & eat it - that for your (illegible) testimonials."

Letter from India

Letter from Sheila Michaels in Delhi India to her parents in the United States.

Image: A large group of women are locked in arms and chanting in the streets of a large city<br /><br />
WE’VE NEVER BURNT A BRA<br /><br />
by SHEILA MICHAELS<br /><br />
Sisterhood is the basis of the American Women’s Movement. It is women helping women, listening, finding trust and support from each other, talking openly about their own lives. Women are still, everywhere, the single poorest group in any society. Society rests on the unpaid and underpaid labour of women. When people see themselves whole, not as “the others”—not certainly as half of humanity—they resist their exploitation. We must succeed in no longer defining ourselves by the criteria men have set for us, because in fact men define themselves positively—in contrast to these very standards. We have stopped consenting to our own oppression. We have built and are building a changing vital, simple movement which cannot be stopped. We have done it all ourselves as we have learned to share our strength.<br /><br />
I was surprised to find what Indians have heard about America and the Women’s Movement. I’m told that “Americans are suffering a total breakdown of their personalities and society, chaos, sexual license, bursting mental hospitals, violence and divorce.” Surely it must be raining fire back home. I am told the Women’s Movement wants to destroy all beauty and is destroying the authority of family (Who is the family? Are men the family?), causing social dislocation in the West and neglecting the care of <br /><br />
16 Youth Times March 7, 1975<br />

1975 Youth Times of India Article "We Never Burned A Bra" by Sheila Michaels

1975 Article in the Youth Times of India, "We Never Burned a Bra" written by Sheila Michaels

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