Women's liberation! : Feminist writings that inspired a revolution & still can / edited by Alix Kates Shulman & Honor Moore.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shulman, Alix Kates, editor.

Moore, Honor, 1945- editor.

Series:

Library of America ; Special Publication.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism.

Feminism--History.

History.

Women's rights.

African American feminists.

Women--Social conditions.

Women.

Equality.

Genre:

Essays.

History.

Physical Description:

xxix, 560 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Feminist writings that inspired a revolution and still can

Place of Publication:

New York : A Library of America, [2021]

Summary:

"When Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women's consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women's civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women's liberation movement, and writing--powerful, personal, and prophetic--was its beating heart. Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works--many long out-of-print and hard to find--that catalyzed and propelled the women's liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan's Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi's Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life--changes too often taken for granted today--but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved"--Back cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1963-1969

(From) The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan

Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo / Mary King

(From) Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII / Mary O. Eastwood

(From) SCUM Manifesto / Valerie Solanas

(From) Toward a Female Liberation Movement, Part I / Judith Brown

No More Miss America! / New York Radical Women

Black Women's Liberation Group of Mt. Vernon, New York / Statement on Birth Control

On Celibacy / Dana Densmore

The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm / Anne koedt

(From) Phallic Criticism / Mary Ellmann

Leaflet / Witch

An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force / Mary Ann Weathers

(From) Radical Feminism / Ti-Grace Atkinson

The Personal Is Political / Carol Hanisch

The Politics of Housework / Pat Mainardi

Women: Do You Know The Facts About Marriage? / The Feminists

Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female / Frances M. Beal

The Man's Problem / Lisa Leghorn

(From) The Next Great Moment in History Is Theirs / Vivian Gornick

Redstockings / Manifesto Principles

1970-1979

(From) The Dialectic of Sex / Shulamith Firestone

(From) Sexual Politics / Kate Millett

(From) The 51% Minority / Shirley Chisholm

Abortion Law Repeal (Sort of): A Warning to Women / Lucinda Cisler

The Woman Identified Woman / Radicalesbians

(From) Are Women Equal Under the Law? / Gene Boyer

(From) Angry Notes from a Black Feminist / Doris Wright

(From) Position Paper on Women / Young Lords Party

Why I Want A Wife / Judy Syfers

A Brief Elegy for Four Women / Robin Morgan

(From) The Children's House / Norma Allen Lesser

(From) Rape: The All-American Crime / Susan Griffin

(From) New Voice of La Raza: Chicanas Speak Out / Mirta Vidal

Black & Blacklesbian / Margaret Sloan

Sisterhood / Gloria Steinem

(From) The Housewife's Moment of Truth / Jane O'Reilly

(From) Women Who Are Writers in Our Century: One Out of Twelve / Tillie olsen

Lesbians in Revolt / Charlotte Bunch

Welfare Is a Women's Issue / Johnnie Tillmon

(From) Birth Control / Barbara Seaman

(From) Women and Madness / Phyllis Chesler

(From) The Verbal Karate of Florynce R. Kennedy, Esq. / Florynce R. Kennedy

(From) Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon / Kathie Sarachild

Preface to Our Bodies, Ourselves / Boston Women's Health Collective

(From) The New Feminism and Women's Studies / Catharine R. Stimpson

In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens / Alice Walker

Wages against Housework / Silvia Federici

Practicing Health Without a License / Lolly Hirsch

Sex and Women's Liberation / Anne Forer

(From) Joan Little: The Dialectics of Rape / Angela Davis

(From) Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape / Susan Brownmiller

(From) A Black Feminist's Search for Sisterhood / Michele Wallace

(From) The Woman Warrior / Maxine Hong Kingston

(From) Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist / Judy Chicago

(From) Of Woman Born / Adrienne Rich

(From) Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood / Jo Freeman

A Letter from a Battered Wife / Del Martin

What Is Socialist Feminism? / Barbara Ehrenreich

The Majority Finds Its Past / Gerda Lerner

A Black Feminist Statement / The Combahee River Collective

(From) In Mourning and In Rage / Leslie Labowitz

(From) Gyn/Ecology / Mary Daly

Notes from a Free-Speech Junkie / Susan Jacoby

Eleven Ways to Fight Sexual Harassment / Lin Farley

(From) Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power / Audre Lorde

Racism and Women's Studies / Barbara Smith

1980-1991

We're All in the Same Boat / Rosario Morales

(From) Speaking In Tongues: A Letter to 3rd World Women Writers / Gloria Anzaldua

To Change the World for Women / Catharine MacKinnon

(From) Pornography / Andrea Dworkin

Pornography and Pleasure / Paula Webster

My Mother Liked to Fuck / Joan Nestle

(From) La Giiera / Cherrie Moraga

(From) Invisibility Is an Unnatural Disaster: Reflections of an Asian American Woman / Mitsuye Yamada

(From) From Housewife to Heretic / Sonia Johnson

(From) The Vows, Wows, & Joys of the High Priestess or What Do You People Do Anyway? / Z. Budapest

(From) In a Different Voice: Psychological Theory and Women's Development / Carol Gilligan

(From) Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution / Ellen Willis

The Fear That Feminism Will Free Men First / Deirdre English

(From) A Gathering of Spirit / Beth Brant

(From) Who Is Your Mother? Red Roots of White Feminism / Paula Gunn Allen

(From) Thoughts on Indian Feminism / Kate Shanley

Ending Female Sexual Oppression / Bell Hooks

(From) The Mother Tongue, Bryn Mawr Commencement Address / Ursula K. Le Guin

Style No. 1 / Sonia Sanchez

Don't You Talk About My Mama! / June Jordan

Whisper: Women Hurt in Systems of Prostitution Engaged in Revolt and / Sarah Wynter

(From) U.S. PROStitutes Collective / Rachel West

(From) Pages From a Gender Diary: Basic Divisions in Feminism / Ann Snitow

(From) Backlash / Susan Faludi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781598536782

1598536788

OCLC:

1237769222

Publisher Number:

99987320381