This Feminist Psychologist-Turned-Rock-Star Led a Full Life of Resistance
Leila McNeill /
Smithsonian Magazine
As a neuropsychologist in the 1970s, Naomi Weisstein fought against the prevailing belief that women were a “social disease” that belonged exclusively in the home. Weisstein started the Chicago Women’s Liberation Rock Band, and also helped found the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union—an organization that galvanized second-wave feminism in the city.