Women's liberation! : Feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can

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Women's liberation! : Feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can

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9781598536782

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xxix, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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1963-1969. (from) The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan ; Sex and caste: a kind of memo / Casey Hayden and Mary King ; (from) Jane Crow and the law: sex discrimination and Title VII / Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood ; (from) SCUM manifesto / Valerie Solanas ; (from) Toward a female liberation movement, Part I / Beverly Jones and Judith Brown ; No more Miss America! / New York Radical Women ; Statement on birth control / Black Women's Liberation Group of Mt. Vernon, New York ; On celibacy / Dana Densmore ; The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt ; (from) Phallic criticism / Mary Ellman ; Leaflet / Witch ; An argument for black women's liberation as a revolutionary force / Mary Ann Weathers ; (from) Radical feminism / Ti-Grace Atkinson ; The personal is political / Carol Hanisch ; The politics of housework / Pat Mainardi ; Women: Do you know the facts about marriage? / The Feminists ; Double jeopardy: to be black and female / Frances M. Beal ; The man's problem / Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Lisa Leghorn ; (from) The next great moment in history is theirs / Vivian Gornick ; Manifesto and principles / Redstockings -- 1970-1979. (from) The dialectic of sex / Shulamith Firestone ; (from) Sexual politics / Kate Millett ; (from) The 51% minority / Shirley Chisholm ; Abortion law repeal (sort of): a warning to women / Lucinda Cisler ; The woman identified woman / RadicaLesbians ; (from) Are women equal under the law? / Gene Boyer ; (from) Angry notes from a black feminist / Doris Wright ; (from) Position paper on women / Young Lords Party ; Why I want a wife / Judy Syfers ; A brief elegy for four women / Robin Morgan ; (from) The children's house / Marcia Sprinkle and Norma Allen Lesser ; (from) Rape: the all-American crime / Susan Griffin ; (from) New voice of La Raza: Chicanas speak out / Mirta Vidal ; Black & blacklesbian / Margaret Sloan ; Sisterhood / Gloria Steinem ; (from) The housewife's moment of truth / Jane O'Reilly ; (from) Women who are writers in our century: one out of twelve / Tillie Olsen ; Lesbians in revolt / Charlotte Bunch ; Welfare is a women's issue / Johnnie Tillmon ; (from) Birth control / Barbara Seaman ; (from) Women and madness / Phyllis Chesler ; (from) The verbal karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq. ; (from) Consciousness-raising: a radical weapon / Kathie Sarachild ; Preface to Our bodies, ourselves / Boston Women's Health Collective ; (from) The new feminism and women's studies / Catharine R. Stimpson ; In search of our mothers' gardens / Alice Walker ; Wages against housework / Silvia Federici ; Practicing health without a license / Lolly Hirsch ; Sex and women's liberation / Anne Forer ; (from) Joan Little: the dialectics of rape / Angela Davis ; (from) Against our will: men, women and rape / Susan Brownmiller ; (from) A black feminist's search for sisterhood / Michele Wallace ; (from) The woman warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston ; (from) Through the flower: my struggle as a woman artist / Judy Chicago ; (from) Of woman born / Adrienne Rich ; (from) Trashing: the dark side of sisterhood / Jo Freeman ; A letter from a battered wife / Del Martin / What is socialist feminism? / Barbara Ehrenreich ; The majority finds its past / Gerda Lerner ; A black feminist statement / The Combahee River Collective ; (from) In mourning and in rage... / Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz ; (from) Gyn/ecology / Mary Daly ; Notes from a free-speech junkie / Susan Jacoby ; Eleven ways to fight sexual harassment / Lin Farley ; (from) Uses of the erotic: the erotic as power / Audre Lorde ; Racism and women's studies / Barbara Smith -- 1980-1991. We're all in the same boat / Rosario Morales ; (from) Speaking in tongues: a letter to 3rd world women writers ; To change the world for women / Catharine MacKinnon ; (from) Pornography / Andrea Dworkin ; Pornography and pleasure / Paula Webster ; My mother liked to fuck / Joan Nestle ; (from) La guera / Cherrie Moraga ; (from) Invisibility is an unnatural disaster: reflections of an Asian American woman / Mitsuye Yamada ; (from) From housewife to heretic / Sonia Johnson ; (from) The vows, wow,s and joys of the high priestess or What do you people do anyway? / Z. Budapest ; (from) In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development / Carol Gilligan ; (from) Toward a feminist sexual revolution / Ellen Willis ; The fear that feminism will free men first / Deirdre English ; (from) A gathering of spirit / Beth Brant ; (from) Who is your mother? Red roots of white feminism / Paula Gunn Allen ; (from) Thoughts on Indian feminism / Kate Shanley ; Ending female sexual oppression / bell hooks ; (from) The mother tongue, Bryn Mawr commencement address / Ursula K. Le Guin ; style no. 1 / Sonia Sanchez ; Don't you talk about my mama! / June Jordan ; WHISPER: Women hurt in systems of prostitution engaged in revolt / Sarah Wynter ; (from) U.S. PROStitutes Collective / Rachel West ; (from) Pages from a gender diary: basic divisions of feminism / Ann Snitow ; (from) Backlash / Susan Faludi.

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Feminism.

Feminism -- History.

Women's rights.

African American feminists.

Women -- Social conditions.

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"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women's liberation movement, and writing--powerful, personal, and prophetic--was its beating heart. Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works--many long out-of-print and hard to find--that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi's Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life--changes too often taken for granted today--but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved. --

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Two pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation's revolutionary insights for today

When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women's liberation movement, and writing--powerful, personal, and prophetic--was its beating heart.

Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works--many long out-of-print and hard to find--that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Backlash , Susan Faludi's Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life--changes too often taken for granted today--but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.

Author Notes

Alix Kates Shulman , who in 1967 became a leading activist in the women's liberation movement, is the author of five novels, including the best-selling Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen , three memoirs, including the award-winning Drinking the Rain , two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, an essay collection, and three children's books.

Honor Moore is the author of the memoirs Our Revolution: A Mother and Daughter at Midcentury and The Bishop's Daughter , the latter a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, and the biography The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter , a New York Times Notable Book. She is the editor of two volumes in Library of America's American Poets Project: Poems from the Women's Movement and Amy Lowell: Selected Poems .

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Novelist Shulman (Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen) and memoirist Moore (Our Revolution) highlight the diversity and radicalism of second-wave feminism in this sweeping anthology. Arranged chronologically from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) to Susan Faludi's Backlash (1991), the selections track the evolution of the movement from ending legal discrimination against women, through exposing "deep-rooted attitudes of sexism and misogyny," to defending against "escalating right-wing attacks" and addressing internal divisions over pornography, sexuality, race, and class. Milestone works such as Kate Millett's Sexual Politics and Susan Brownmiller's Against Our Will get their due, but the anthology's greatest strength is its elevation of lesser-known activists and groups. Organizers of the Combahee River Collective analyze "interlocking" systems of oppression in "A Black Feminist Statement"; Lin Farley, a human affairs director at Cornell University in the 1970s, offers one of the first guides to fighting sexual harassment in the workplace; and Z. Budapest, founder of Dianic Wicca, describes resistance to the "Goddess religion" within the pagan community and the feminist movement. Each excerpt is succinctly introduced and contextualized, and controversies (such as the "sex wars" of the 1970s and '80s) are highlighted rather than ignored. The result is both a comprehensive introduction to the movement and a persuasive defense of its revolutionary nature. (Feb.)

Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore

Acronyms	p. xvii
Introduction	p. xix
1963-1969
Betty Friedan: (from) The Feminine Mystique	p. 5
Casey Hayden and Mary King: Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo	p. 20
Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood: (from) Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII	p. 24
Valerie Solanas: (from) SCUM Manifesto	p. 28
Beverly Jones and Judith Brown: (from) Toward a Female Liberation Movement, Part I	p. 38
New York Radical Women: No More Miss America!	p. 45
Black Women's Liberation Group of Mt. Vernon, New York: Statement on Birth Control	p. 48
Dana Densmore: On Celibacy	p. 50
Anne Koedt: The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	p. 54
Mary Ellmann: (from) Phallic Criticism	p. 63
Witch: Leaflet	p. 73
Mary Ann Weathers: An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force	p. 75
Ti-Grace Atkinson: (from) Radical Feminism	p. 79
Carol Hanisch: The Personal Is Political	p. 82
Pat Mainardi: The Politics of Housework	p. 86
The Feminists: Women: Do You Know The Facts About Marriage?	p. 92
Frances M. Beal: Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female	p. 94
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Lisa Leghorn: The Man's Problem	p. 104
Vivian Gornick: (from) The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs	p. 107
Redstockings: Manifesto and Principles	p. 110
1970-1979
Shulamith Firestone: (from) The Dialectic of Sex	p. 117
Kate Millett: (from) Sexual Politics	p. 125
Shirley Chisholm: (from) The 51% Minority:	p. 131
Lucinda Cisler: Abortion Law Repeal (Sort of): A Warning to Women	p. 136
Radicalesbians: The Woman Identified Woman	p. 145
Gene Boyer: (from) Are Women Equal Under the Law?	p. 151
Doris Wright: (from) Angry Notes from a Black Feminist	p. 159
Young Lords Party: (from) Position Paper on Women	p. 163
Judy Syfers: Why I Want A Wife	p. 168
Robin Morgan: A Brief Elegy for Four Women	p. 171
Marcia Sprinkle and Norma Allen Lesser: (from) The Children's House	p. 173
Susan Griffin: (from) Rape: The All-American Crime	p. 179
Mirta Vidal: (from) New Voice of La Raza: Chicanas Speak Out	p. 187
Margaret Sloan: Black & Blacklesbian	p. 191
Gloria Steinem: Sisterhood	p. 192
Jane O'Reilly: (from) The Housewife's Moment of Truth	p. 198
Tillie Olsen: (from) Women Who Are Writers in Our Century: One Out of Twelve	p. 201
Charlotte Bunch: Lesbians in Revolt	p. 210
Johnnie Tillmon: Welfare Is a Women's Issue	p. 216
Barbara Seaman: (from) Birth Control	p. 224
Phyllis Chesler: (from) Women and Madness	p. 230
Florynce R. Kennedy: (from) The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq.	p. 233
Kathie Sarachild: (from) Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon	p. 238
Boston Women's Health Collective: Preface to Our Bodies, Ourselves	p. 242
Catharine R. Stimpson: (from) The New Feminism and Women's Studies	p. 248
Alice Walker: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens	p. 253
Silvia Federici: Wages against Housework	p. 262
Lolly Hirsch: Practicing Health Without a License	p. 271
Anne Forer: Sex and Women's Liberation	p. 276
Angela Davis: (from) Joan Little: The Dialectics of Rape	p. 281
Susan Brownmiller: (from) Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape	p. 287
Michele Wallace: (from) A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood	p. 292
Maxine Hong Kingston: (from) The Woman Warrior	p. 298
Judy Chicago: (from) Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist	p. 304
Adrienne Rich: (from) Of Woman Born	p. 310
Jo Freeman: (from) Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood	p. 320
Del Martin: A Letter from a Battered Wife	p. 326
Barbara Ehrenreich: What Is Socialist Feminism?	p. 330
Gerda Lerner: The Majority Finds Its Past	p. 338
The Combahee River Collective: A Black Feminist Statement	p. 345
Suzanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz: (from) In Mourning and In Rage ...	p. 354
Mary Daly: (from) Gyn/Ecology	p. 358
Susan Jacoby: Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie	p. 366
Lin Farley: Eleven Ways to Fight Sexual Harassment	p. 370
Audre Lorde: (from) Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power	p. 373
Barbara Smith: Racism and Women's Studies	p. 377
1980-1991
Rosario Morales: We're All in the Same Boat	p. 383
Gloria Anzaldúa: (from) Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers	p. 386
Catharine MacKinnon: To Change the World for Women	p. 391
Andrea Dworkin: (from) Pornography	p. 402
Paula Webster: Pornography and Pleasure	p. 405
Joan Nestle: My Mother Liked to Fuck	p. 413
Cherríe Moraga: (from) La Güera	p. 416
Mitsuye Yamada: (from) Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman	p. 419
Sonia Johnson: (from) From Housewife to Heretic	p. 424
Z. Budapest: (from) The Vows, Wows, & Joys of the High Priestess or What Do You People Do Anyway?	p. 427
Carol Gilligan: (from) In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development	p. 431
Ellen Willis: (from) Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution	p. 433
Deirdre English: The Fear That Feminism Will Free Men First	p. 444
Beth Brant: (from) A Gathering of Spirit	p. 451
Paula Gunn Allen: (from) Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism	p. 455
Kate Shanley: (from) Thoughts on Indian Feminism	p. 460
Bell Hooks: Ending Female Sexual Oppression	p. 463
Ursula K. Le Guin: (from) The Mother Tongue, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address	p. 472
Sonia Sanchez: style no. 1	p. 477
June Jordan: Don't You Talk About My Mama!	p. 479
Sarah Wynter: Whisper: Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt and	p. 486
Rachel West: (from) U.S. PROStitutes Collective	p. 490
Ann Snitow: (from) Pages From a Gender Diary: Basic Divisions in Feminism	p. 494
Susan Faludi: (from) Backlash	p. 500
Acknowledgments	p. 521
List of Sources	p. 523
List of Illustrations	p. 533
Index	p. 537

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