Research Catalog

Title

Sisterhood is powerful : an anthology of writings from the women's liberation movement / edited by Robin Morgan.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, [1970]

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Details

Additional Authors

Morgan, Robin, 1941-

Description

xlvi, 648 pages : illustrations; 18 cm

Subject

• Women's rights > United States
• Feminism > United States
• Feminism
• Women's rights
• Frauenbewegung
• Feminismus
• Vrouwenarbeid
• Vrouwendiscriminatie
• United States

Note

• "V-539".

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

"You've come a long way, baby": historical perspectives / Connie Brown and Jane Seitz -- The oppressed majority: the way it is -- Know your enemy: a sampling of sexist quotes -- The 51 percent minority group: a statistical essay / Joreen -- The dynamics of marriage and motherhood / Beverly Jones -- Women in the professions: five short personal testimonies -- Women in medicine / Miriam Gilbert, R.N. -- "A house is not a home": women in publishing / Laura Furman -- Women and television / Sheila Smith Hobson -- Women in the military / Lt. Susan Schnall -- The trials of Lois Lane: women in journalism / Lindsy Van Gelder -- The secretarial proletariat / Judith Ann -- The halls of academe / Women's Caucus, Political Science Department, University of Chicago -- Women and the welfare system / Carol Glassman -- Two jobs: women who work in factories / Jean Tepperman -- Women and the Catholic church / Dr. Mary Daly -- Does the law oppress women? / Diane B. Schulder -- The invisible woman: psychological and sexual repression -- Barbarous rituals -- It hurts to be alive and obsolete: the ageing woman / Zoe Moss -- Media images 1: Madison Avenue brainwashing -- the facts / Alice Embree -- Media images 2: body odor and social order / Florika -- The politics of orgasm / Susan Lydon -- "Kinde, kuche, kirche" as scientific law: psychology constructs the female / Dr. Naomi Weisstein -- A theory of female sexuality / Mary Jane Sherfey, M.D. -- A psychiatrist's view: images of woman -- past, present, overt and obscured / Natalie Shainess, M.D. -- Unfinished business: birth control and women's liberation / Lucinda Cisler -- The hooker / Ellen Strong -- The least of these: the minority whose screams haven't yet been heard / Gene Damon -- Notes of a radical lesbian / Martha Shelley -- Sexual politics (in literature) / Kate Millett -- Go tell it in the valley: changing consciousness -- Resistances to consciousness / Irene Peslikis -- Women in the Black Liberation Movement: three views -- Double jeopardy: to be Black and female / Frances M. Beal -- For Sadie and Maude / Eleanor Holmes Norton -- Statement on birth control / Black Women's Liberation Group, Mount Vernon, New York -- High school women: three views -- The suburban scene / Connie Dvorkin -- On de-segregating Stuyvesant High / Alice de Rivera -- Excerpts from the diaries of all oppressed women / Women's Collective of the New York High School Students' Union -- Colonized women: the Chicana -- An introduction / Elizabeth Sutherland -- The Mexican-American woman / Enriqueta Longauex y Vasquez -- Experiment in freedom: women of China / Charlotte Bonny Cohen -- Up from sexism: emerging ideologies -- The grand Coolie damn / Marge Piercy -- Institutionalized oppression vs. the female / Florynce Kennedy -- The politics of housework / Pat Mainardi -- Social bases for sexual equality: a comparative view / Karen Sacks -- Self-defense for women / Susan Pasalé, Rachel Moon, Leslie B. Tanner -- Female liberation as the basis for social revolution / Roxanne Dunbar -- The hand that cradles the rock: protest and revolt -- Poetry as protest -- For witches / Susan Sutheim -- Elegy for Jayne Mansfield, July 1967 / Karen Lindsey -- A chant for my sisters / Marilyn Lowen Fletcher -- Must I marry / Lynn Strongin -- The playground (a prose poem) / Leah Fritz -- She / Maria Ann Britton -- Dancing the shout to the true gospel or The song movement sisters don't want me to sing / Rita Mae Brown -- Poem / Jayne West -- Song of the fucked duck / Marge Piercy -- Anonymous poem / a seven-year-old woman -- Terror / Martha Shelley -- Poem / Janet Russo -- Going through changes / Jean Tepperman -- The jailor / Sylvia Plath -- Historical documents -- NOW (National Organization for Women) bill of rights -- Excerpts from the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) manifesto / Valerie Solanis -- Principles / New York Radical Women -- No more Miss America! Ten points of protest -- Letter to our sisters in social work / WAR (Women of the American Revolution) -- How to name baby / Media Women -- Lilith's manifesto / Women's Majority Union, Seattle -- We did it / Women Against Daddy Warbucks -- Statement on the University of Chicago sit-in -- An exegesis on women's liberation / Women's Caucus within the Youth International Party -- Redstockings manifesto -- The feminists vs. the institution of marriage -- WITCH documents -- Songs -- Verbal karate: statistical and aphoristic ammunition.

ISBN

• 0394705394
• 9780394705392

OCLC

• ocm03907007
• 3907007
• SCSB-159587

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library