Sisterhood Is Powerful
by Robin Morgan (Editor)
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Here is the first comprehensive collection of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement, including articles, poems, photographs, and manifestos. This anthology captures the range of problems being considered by the new feminists and the variety of approaches to analysis and action. Over fifty contributors, all women, write about how the "51% minority group" is used and abused by the major institutions of our society: marriage, the family, church courts, the media, welfare, the schools, show more the professions, business, and industry. A section on the psychological and sexual repression of women attacks the Freudian view of the female and discusses the problems of the aging woman, abortion and birth control, prostitution, and the persecution of lesbians. Black women, a Mexican woman, high school women, ex-New Leftist housewives, and seasoned feminists speak from their experience in tones that range from detachment to outrage. show lessTags
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I was probably the only person who read this for the sex. Well, I was ten. On second thoughts, I didn't read the sex, I devoured it and read it over and over and over. I can still recall key ideas, the writers denouncing all sorts of bits of pornographic literature, which I thought were just so sexy.
I don't know where it comes from, but in particular there is a line about a girl eagerly attached to the end of a penis being like a hooked fish and no amount of proseltysing in the analysis of how disgraceful this was made it the least bit less of a turn on for me...
The rest of it is all obvious. People equal, blah blah blah. I'm sorry, maybe you don't think this is obvious, but we were brought up with a scrupulous regard for the idea that show more there are no more or less than people in the world and all are equal. I never had an idea that any person wasn't equal, so it was hard to get really excited about women's lib.
Not least because they did so many stupid things that stuck, like the anti-bra thing. Maybe 6/7 years later I was asked to be involved in some women's event - would I do a chess simul. Oh, by the way, everybody was going to be topless. Like how fucked was that as an idea...let's get bunches of extra men to come and ogle. It struck me as one of the ideas that somehow made a lot of what they were doing sexist.
I agreed to play and had no intention of being topless...I went so far as to wear a see-through top. I won, if the idea was to get the most men. See what I mean? Sexist in big font. show less
I don't know where it comes from, but in particular there is a line about a girl eagerly attached to the end of a penis being like a hooked fish and no amount of proseltysing in the analysis of how disgraceful this was made it the least bit less of a turn on for me...
The rest of it is all obvious. People equal, blah blah blah. I'm sorry, maybe you don't think this is obvious, but we were brought up with a scrupulous regard for the idea that show more there are no more or less than people in the world and all are equal. I never had an idea that any person wasn't equal, so it was hard to get really excited about women's lib.
Not least because they did so many stupid things that stuck, like the anti-bra thing. Maybe 6/7 years later I was asked to be involved in some women's event - would I do a chess simul. Oh, by the way, everybody was going to be topless. Like how fucked was that as an idea...let's get bunches of extra men to come and ogle. It struck me as one of the ideas that somehow made a lot of what they were doing sexist.
I agreed to play and had no intention of being topless...I went so far as to wear a see-through top. I won, if the idea was to get the most men. See what I mean? Sexist in big font. show less
Where it all started, 1970. So radical!
The classic wide-ranging anthology of writings from the Women's Liberation Movement.
"...This was published in 1970 at the beginning of the Women’s Liberation Movement. It contained a variety of writing by key theoreticians and activists. Along with The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer and Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics which also appeared in 1970, these books were the rallying cry of the Women’s Liberation Movement and a call to activism in one’s personal and public life..." (reviewed by Jay Kleinberg in FiveBooks).
The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jay-kleinberg-on-history-american-women
The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/jay-kleinberg-on-history-american-women
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Robin Morgan lives in New York. She is the author of, most recently, "A Hot January: Poems 1996-1999." (Bowker Author Biography)
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