Research Catalog

Title

I still believe Anita Hill / edited by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg.

Publication

New York : Feminist Press, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Richards, Amy, 1970-
• Greenberg, Cynthia.

Description

248 pages : portrait; 22 cm

Summary

In the fall of 1991, Anita Hill captured the country's attention, when she testified before the US Senate Judiciary Committee describing sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas, who had been her boss, and was about to ascend to the Supreme Court. We know what happened: she was challenged, disbelieved, and humiliated; he was given a life-long appointment to decide America's judicial fate. What is less known is how many women and men were inspired because of Anita Hill's bravery, how her testimony changed the feminist movement, and how she singlehandedly brought public awareness to the issue of sexual harassment. Thomas might have won his seat, but Anita Hill's legacy mobilized the women's movement and our need to demand more than the status quo. Twenty years later, this collection brings together three generations to witness, respond to, and analyze Hill's impact and present insights in law; politics; the confluence of race, class, and gender; the persistent questioning of women's credibility; and current cases of sexual harassment. With original contributions by Anita Hill, Melissa Harris-Perry, Catharine MacKinnon, Patricia J. Williams, Eve Ensler, Ai Jen Poo, Kimberly Crenshaw, Lynn Nottage, Gloria Steinem, Lani Guinier, Lisa Kron, Mary Oliver, Edwidge Danticat, Kevin Powell, and many others.

Subjects

• Feminism
• Hill, Anita
• United States
• Feminism > United States
• Sexual harassment of women > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

When you speak up / Eve Ensler -- Introduction / Amy Richards -- A comment, not casual, concerning Anita Hill / Mary Oliver -- Remembrances: the Anita Hill hearings, twenty years later -- Louise M. Slaughter, Maureen Dowd, and Patricia Schroeder -- A thank you note to Anita Hill / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Twenty years later / Dorothy Samuels -- Anita Hill: still speaking truth to power twenty years later / Charles Ogletree -- But some of us are brave / Lani Guinier -- Old and new depictions of justice: reflections, circa 2011, on Hill-Thomas / Judith Resnick -- Voice, heart, ground / Catharine A. Mackinnon -- But I could be / Jamia Wilson -- Don't get me started on these women ... / Lisa Kron -- Nita Faye / Asali Devan Ecclesiastes -- What does Anita Hill mean to you? / Pat Mitchell [and others] -- Word power / Hope Anita Smith -- A poem for Anita Hill / Kevin Powell -- What does credibility look like? / Patricia J. Williams -- Give your child your luggage, not your baggage / Anita F. Hill -- Good morning Anita Hill / Edwidge Danticat -- The bloodless coup / Deborah Copaken Kogan -- Severe and pervasive / Kathleen Peratis -- Stunned but not bowed / Kimberle Williams Crenshaw -- Sex, power, and change: where do we go now? / Virginia Valian -- Supremacy crimes / Gloria Steinem -- Very easy to say and very hard to do -- even twenty years later / Devon W. Carbado -- How to run with it / Julie Zeilinger -- The scarlet C / Lynn Nottage -- Afterword / Cynthia Greenberg.

Call Number

JFD 13-848

ISBN

• 9781558618091
• 1558618090

LCCN

• 2012031114
• 40021710644

OCLC

783151730

Title

I still believe Anita Hill / edited by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg.

Imprint

New York : Feminist Press, 2013.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Richards, Amy, 1970-

Greenberg, Cynthia.

Other Form:

Online version: I still believe Anita Hill. New York : Feminist Press, 2013 1558618104 (OCoLC)823380540

Other Standard Identifier

40021710644

Research Call Number

JFD 13-848