Influence
The Manifesto, according to Lyon, is "notorious and influential" and was "one of the earliest ... one of the most radical" of "tracts produced by" "various strands of the American women's liberation movement." Lyon said that "by 1969 it had become a kind of bible" for Cell 16, in Boston. Whether the Manifesto should be considered a feminist classic is challenged by Heller because the Manifesto rejected a hierarchy of greatness, but she said it "remains an influential feminist text."
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