Reasonable creatures : essays on women and feminism / Katha Pollitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pollitt, Katha.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social problems--Moral and ethical aspects.

Social problems.

Social problems--United States.

Feminist ethics.

United States.

Feminist ethics--United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xiv, 186 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : A. Knopf, 1994.

Summary:

She writes about sex, children's books, the media, breast implants, the mind of an antiabortionist. She invokes Moby Dick and Gilligan's Island, Lorna Bobbitt and Lysistrata ("the original woman's strike-for-peace-nik"). For more than a decade, in her wonderfully provocative, wittily astute, graceful and gutsy pieces in The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, she has taken the strongest positions on the thorniest moral issues and the most controversial events, from date rape to surrogate motherhood, to violence against women, to the Anita Hill hearings, to fetal rights and mothers' "wrongs". She asks "Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?", considers the Smurfette Principle and explains why she hates "Family Values". She takes aim at nineteen targets in all. Her pieces delight by their language - the mastery that won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her first book of poems - and her refusal, ever, to be ponderous.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

039457060X :

OCLC:

29564039