Research Catalog

Title

Virginity or death! : and other social and political issues of our time / Katha Pollitt.

Author

Pollitt, Katha

Publication

New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baird, Bill

Description

xx, 265 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has observed and exposed the inconsistencies and illogic of those who stand in the way of progress solely to hold on to their power. In defense of human rights and equality, she assails the corrupt and educates the misguided with compassion, wit, and complete literary authority."--Jacket.

Uniform Title

Nation (New York, N.Y. : 1865)

Subject

• Politics and government
• Since 1980
• Social conditions
• United States
• United States > Politics and government > 1993-2001
• United States > Politics and government > 2001-2009
• United States > Social conditions > 1980-2020

Note

• A collection of articles originally published in the author's column, Subject to debate, in the Nation.
• "Random House trade paperback original"--Title page verso.

Contents

Dear Larry, Thanks! John 3 -- No Olive Branch 6 -- Vaginal Politics 9 -- Anti-Catholic? Round Two 12 -- Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives 15 -- This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health 19 -- Analyze This 22 -- Childcare Scare 25 -- Happy Mother's Day 28 -- Cold Comfort 31 -- Mad Bad Ads 34 -- It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ... Superclone? 37 -- Baby, It's Cold Inside! 40 -- Summer Follies 43 -- Put Out No Flags 46 -- Where Are the Women? 49 -- War and Peace 52 -- After the Taliban 55 -- Shotgun Weddings 58 -- Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 61 -- Egg on the Brain 64 -- Justice, Not So Swift 67 -- God Changes Everything 70 -- Backlash Babies 73 -- Regressive Progressive? 76 -- Special Rights for the Godly? 79 -- Ashcroft Love Iran 82 -- School's Out 85 -- Beyond Good and Evil 88 -- Letter to an Ex-Contrarian 91 Raise a Glass to the Stay-at-Home Voter? 94 -- As Miss World Turns 97 -- They Know When You Are Sleeping 100 -- War. What Is It Good For? 103 -- Pride and Prejudice 106 -- Weapons of Mass Delusion? 109 -- Bah, Humbug 112 -- White Lies 115 -- Blond Ambition 118 -- Lost Innocents 121 -- Selling Dean Short 124 -- Stacked Decalogue 127 -- Governor Groper? 130 -- After You, My Dear Alphonse 133 -- Is the Pope Crazy? 136 -- There They Go Again 139 -- Adam and Steve-Together at Last 142 -- Good News for Women 145 -- Lost in Space 149 -- Judy, Judy, Judy 152 -- Kristof to the Rescue? 157 -- Toothpaste, Cough Drops, Aspirin, Contraception 160 -- The Protocols of Mel Gibson 163 -- Pull Over, NASCAR Dads 166 -- Pregnant and Dangerous 169 -- Down and Out in Texas 172 -- Show and Tell in Abu Ghraib 175 -- Desperately Seeking Health Insurance 178 -- Sex and the Stepford Wife 181 Let's Not Devalue Ourselves 184 -- Bush Bashers and the Bashers Who Bash Them 187 -- Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney 190 -- Mourn 193 -- Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter 196 -- Stop Crying, Start Working 199 -- Bittersweet Bomblets 202 -- Jesus to the Rescue? 205 -- Summers of Our Discontent 208 -- Invisible Women 211 -- Backward Christian Soldiers 214 -- Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005 217 -- Practice What You Preach 220 -- Virginity or Death! 224 -- Stiffed 227 -- If the Frame Fits ... 230 -- Should Roe Go? 233 -- Feminists for (Fetal) Life 236 -- Theocracy Lite 239 -- Intelligible Design 242 -- Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League? 245 -- If Not Miers, Who? 248 -- Madam President, Madam President 251 -- World According to Dowd 254 -- Girls Against Boys? 257 -- Pro-Choice Puritans 260 -- Betty Friedan, 1921-2006 263.

ISBN

• 081297638X
• 9780812976380

LCCN

• 2006043886
• 9780812976380

OCLC

65165506

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library