No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays
by Ellen Willis
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With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: "a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life." Moving between scholarly and down-to-earth activist writing styles, Willis confronts the conservative backlash that has slowly eroded democratic ideals and advances of the 1960's as well as the internal debates that have frequently splintered the left.Tags
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This collection of essays will come as a shining relief and call to action for those of us who have been confused and angered by some of the turns taken by feminism in the 70s and 80s. Willis rejects cultural feminism and that which would place women on a pedestal, instead championing true equality rather than victimhood.
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Ellen Willis (1941-2006) was the first pop music critic for The New Yorker and an editor and columnist at the Village Voice. A groundbreaking radical leftist author and thinker, she contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and The Nation, and was the founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program show more at New York University. Among her other books are the collections Out of the Vinyl Deeps and No More Nice Girls, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. show less
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- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, Sexuality and Gender Studies, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 305.42 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social group - Age, Gender, Ethnicity Women Social role and status of women
- LCC
- HQ1154 .W54 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women Women. Feminism
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- Languages
- English
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 6
