Feminism in Our Time

by SCHNEIR, MIRIAM

• ISBN13: 9780679745082
• ISBN10: 0679745084
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1994-06-28
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

From Simone de Beauvoir to Susan Faludi, from the ERA to Anita Hill -- a historically informed sourcebook that defines the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism. In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women's movement today add reveal how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world. Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women's health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is the most thorough record to date of women's ongoing struggle to control their own destinies and provide alternative visions of the just society and a true human equality.

Author Biography

Miriam Schneir is the editor of the anthology Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present and Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. She coauthored “Remembering the Ladies”: Women in America, 1750-1815, and wrote with Walter Schneir Invitation to an Inquest, a study of the Rosenberg case. Her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and various other publications. Under the auspices of Columbia Teachers College, she prepared a critique of the coverage and treatment of women in a multivolume encyclopedia, which was the basis for revision of the encyclopedia. She was a research associate with Columbia University Center for the Social Sciences Program in Sex Roles and Social Change.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Second Sex	p. 3
The Golden Notebook	p. 21
Purdah	p. 33
American Women	p. 38
The Feminine Mystique	p. 48
Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VII	p. 71
Jane Crow and the Law: Sex Discrimination and Title VII	p. 76
A Kind of Memo . . . to a Number of Other Women in the Peace and Freedom Movements	p. 89
The National Organization for Women Statement of Purpose	p. 95
An SDS Statement on the Liberation of Women	p. 103
Toward a Female Liberation Movement	p. 108
Redstockings Manifesto	p. 125
Bread and Roses	p. 130
Goodbye to All That	p. 148
The Woman-Identified Woman	p. 160
Who Said It Was Simple	p. 168
National Black Feminist Organization Statement of Purpose	p. 171
The Combahee River Collective Statement	p. 175
The Demise of the Dancing Dog	p. 191
Women: The Longest Revolution	p. 201
Kinder, Kuche, Kirche as Scientific Law: Psychology Constructs the Female	p. 213
Sexual Politics	p. 229
The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution	p. 245
The Poem as Mask	p. 257
After the Death of God the Father: Women's Liberation and the Transformation of Christian Consciousness	p. 260
Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape	p. 272
The Mermaid and the Minotaur: Sexual Arrangements and Human Malaise	p. 283
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman	p. 295
Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence	p. 310
In Celebration of My Uterus	p. 329
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	p. 333
The Female Eunuch	p. 343
Our Bodies, Ourselves	p. 351
Equal Rights Amendment	p. 369
New York City Commission on Human Rights Hearings on Women's Rights
A Strategy for Change	p. 372
Women's Rights and the Revolution of Rising Expectations	p. 380
Patterns of Discrimination and Discouragement in Higher Education	p. 382
Women in Household Employment	p. 387
Discrimination in High School Sports	p. 390
Women in Elective Office	p. 393
Opinion of the Court	p. 399
The Way We Were - And Will Be	p. 408
Pornography: Men Possessing Women	p. 419
In a Different Voice	p. 428
The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future	p. 439
Backlash	p. 454
Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee	p. 469
African American Women in Defense of Ourselves	p. 478
On Being Nominated to the Supreme Court	p. 481
Sources of Selections	p. 485
Acknowledgments	p. 489
Index	p. 493
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