Feminism in our time : the essential writings, World War II to the present /
edited with an introduction and commentaries by Miriam Schneir.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Vintage Books, 1994.
- xvi, 503 p. ; 21 cm.
"A Vintage original."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 485-488) and index.
Introduction / Miriam Schneir -- The Second Sex / Simone de Beauvoir -- The Golden Notebook / Doris Lessing -- Purdah / Sylvia Plath -- American Women / The Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women -- The Feminine Mystique / Betty Friedan -- Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII -- Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII / Pauli Murray and Mary O. Eastwood -- A Kind of Memo . . . to a Number of Other Women in the Peace and Freedom Movements / Casey Hayden and Mary King -- The National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose -- An SDS Statement on the Liberation of Women -- Toward a Female Liberation Movement / Beverly Jones -- Redstockings Manifesto -- Bread and Roses / Kathy McAfee and Myrna Wood -- Goodbye to All That / Robin Morgan -- The Woman-Identified Woman / Radicalesbians -- Who Said It Was Simple / Audre Lorde -- National Black Feminist Organization Statement of Purpose -- The Combahee River Collective Statement. The Demise of the Dancing Dog / Cynthia Ozick -- Women: The Longest Revolution / Juliet Mitchell -- Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female / Naomi Weisstein -- Sexual Politics / Kate Millett -- The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution / Shulamith Firestone -- The Poem as Mask / Muriel Rukeyser -- After the Death of God the Father: Women's Liberation and the Transformation of Christian Consciousness / Mary Daly -- Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape / Susan Brownmiller -- The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise / Dorothy Dinnerstein -- Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman / Michele Wallace -- Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence / Adrienne Rich -- In Celebration of My Uterus / Anne Sexton -- The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm / Anne Koedt -- The Female Eunuch / Germaine Greer -- Our Bodies, Ourselves / Boston Women's Health Book Collective -- Equal Rights Amendment. New York City Commission on Human Rights Hearings on Women's Rights. A Strategy for Change / Eleanor Holmes Norton. Women's Rights and the Revolution of Rising Expectations / Betty Friedan. Patterns of Discrimination and Discouragement in Higher Education / Bernice Sandler. Women in Household Employment / Patricia Jones. Discrimination in High School Sports / Phyllis Graber. Women in Elective Office / Bella Abzug -- Opinion of the Court / Jane Roe v. Henry Wade -- The Way We Were - And Will Be / Gloria Steinem -- Pornography: Men Possessing Women / Andrea Dworkin -- In a Different Voice / Carol Gilligan -- The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future / Riane Eisler -- Backlash / Susan Faludi -- Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee / Anita Hill -- African American Women in Defense of Ourselves -- On Being Nominated to the Supreme Court / Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Gathers a selection of modern feminist writings by Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Susan Brownmiller, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and Andrea Dworkin.
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