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Title

The feminist memoir project : voices from women's liberation / edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
• Snitow, Ann Barr, 1943-
• Baird, Bill

Description

xxvi, 531 p.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Feminism > United States > History > 20th century
• Women's rights > United States > History > 20th century
• Feminists > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• History.

Note

• "With a new preface" --Cover.
• Originally published: New York : Three Rivers Press, c1998.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Preface to the 2007 edition -- A feminist memoir project / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow -- Our gang of four: friendship and women's liberation / Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi Weisstein -- Coming of age: civil rights and feminism / Barbara W. Emerson -- A year of living dangerously: 1968 / Dana Densmore -- Outlaw women: chapters from a feminist memoir-in-progress / Roxanne Dunbar -- History makes us, we make history / Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez -- Ambivalence about feminism / Barbara Epstein -- Home before sundown / Anselma Dell'Olio -- On the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a strictly personal perspective / Jo Freeman -- Two letters from the Women's Liberation Movement / Carol Hanisch -- Catching the fire / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall -- Primary and secondary contradictions in Seattle: 1967-1969 / Barbara Winslow -- In the wilderness of one's inner self: living feminism / Lourdes Beneria -- Clenched fist, open heart / Alice J. Wolfson --^
• A marriage disagreement, or Marriage by other means / Alix Kates Shulman -- On Becoming a feminist/lawyer / Nadine Taub -- "For people hear us singing, 'Bread and roses! Bread and roses!'" / Meredith Tax -- We called ourselves sisters / Priscilla Long -- A fem's feminist history / Joan Nestle -- Days of celebration and resistance: the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi Weisstein -- The art of getting to equal / Nancy Spero -- What feminism means to me / Vivian Gornick -- Sisterhood in Black and White / Barbara Omolade -- The buried Yes / Minne Bruce Pratt -- An activist love story / Paula Allen and Eve Ensler -- To Hell and back: on the road with Black feminism in the 1960s & 1970s / Michele Wallace? Skirting / Yvonne Rainer -- "Ain't I a feminist?": re-forming the circle / Shirley Geok-lin Lim -- Some responses (a note from RBD and AS) -- Notes from the aftermath / AnnJanette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite --^
• "Feisty characters" and "Other people's causes": memories of White racism and U.S. feminism / Barbara Smith -- My memoir problem / Ellen Willis -- Sisters in struggle: a belated response / Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- How many lives are here? / Kate Millett.

ISBN

• 9780813539737 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0813539730 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006021856

OCLC

• 70251201
• SCSB-12387808

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library