Research Catalog

Title

Feminism in our time : the essential writings, World War II to

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 1994.

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Additional Authors

Schneir, Miriam.

Description

xvi, 505 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Gathers a selection of modern feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Andrea Dworkin.

Subject

• Feminism > United States > History
• Women > United States > History

Genre/Form

History

Note

• "A Vintage original."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-488) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• I. Reawakening. The second sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- The golden notebook / Doris Lessing -- Purdah / Sylvia Plath -- The report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women / American women -- The feminine mystique / Betty Friedan -- II. An early victory. Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII ; Jane Crow and the law : sex discrimination and Title VII / Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood -- III. Sisterhood. A kind of memo ... to a number of other women in the peace and freedom movements -- The National Organization for Women statement of purpose -- An SDS statement on the liberation of women -- Toward a female liberation movement / Beverly Jones -- Redstockings manifesto -- Bread and roses / Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood -- Goodbye to all that / Robin Morgan -- The women-identified woman / Radicalesbians -- Who said it was simple / Audre Lord -- National Black Feminist Organization statement of purpose -- The Combahee River Collective statement --
• (cont.) IV. "We cannot rely on existing ideologies". The demise of the dancing dog / Cynthia Ozick -- Women : the longest revolution / Juliet Mitchell -- Kinder, Küche, Kirche as scientific law : psychology constructs the female / Naomi Weisstein -- Sexual politics / Kate Millett -- The dialectic of sex : the case for feminist revolution / Shulamith Firestone -- The poem as mask / Muriel Rukeyser -- After the death of God the Father : women's liberation and the transformation of Christian consciousness / Mary Daly -- Against our will : men, women, and rape / Susan Brownmiller -- The mermaid and the minotaur : sexual arrangements and human malaise -- Black macho and the myth of the superwoman / Michelle Wallace -- Compulsory heterosexuality and lesbian experience / Adrienne Rich. -- V. Our bodies. In celebration of my uterus / Anne Sexton -- The myth of the vaginal orgasm / Anne Koedt -- The female eunuch / Germaine Greer -- Our bodies, ourselves / Boston Women's Health Collective --
• (cont.) VI. Equal Rights Amendment / New York Commission on Human Rights hearings on women's rights -- A strategy for change / Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Women's rights and the revolution of rising expectations / Betty Friedan -- Patterns of discrimination and discouragement in higher education / Bernice Sandler -- Women in household employment / Patricia Jones -- Discrimination in high school sports / Phyllis Graber -- Women in elective office / Bella Abzug -- Jane Roe v. Henry Wade / Opinion of the Court -- The way we were-- and will be / Gloria Steinem --
• (cont.) VII. Themes of the eighties and nineties. Pornography : men possessing women / Andrea Dworkin -- In a different voice / Carol Gilligan -- The chalice and the blade : our history, our future / Riane Eisler -- Backlash / Susan Faludi -- Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee / Anita Hill -- African American women in defense of ourselves -- On being nominated to the Supreme Court / Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

ISBN

0679745084 (pbk.) :

LCCN

^^^93046391^

OCLC

29564947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library