Radical Feminism : A Documentary Reader

by Crow, Barbara A.

• ISBN13: 9780814715550
• ISBN10: 0814715559
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-02-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

The second wave of feminism was one of the most significant political and cultural developments of the 1960s and 1970s. Yet the role radical feminism played within the women's movement remains hotly contested. For some, radical feminism has made a lasting contribution to our understanding of male privilege, and the ways the power imbalance between men and women affects the everyday fabric of women's lives. For others, radical feminism represents a reflexive hostility toward men, sex, and heterosexuality, and thus is best ignored or forgotten.Rather than have the movement be interpreted by others,Radical Feminismpermits the original work of radical feminists to speak for itself. Comprised of pivotal documents written by U.S. radical feminists in the 1960s and 1970s,Radical Feminismcombines both unpublished and previously published manifestos, position papers, minutes of meetings, and newsletters essential to an understanding of radical feminism. Consisting of documents unavailable to the general public, and others in danger of being lost altogether, this panoramic collection is organized around the key issues of sex and sexuality, race, children, lesbianism, separatism, and class. Barbara A. Crow rescues the groundbreaking original work of such groups as The Furies, Redstockings, Cell 16, and the Women's Liberation Movement. Contributors include Kate Millet, Susan Brownmiller, Shulamith Firestone, Rosalyn Baxandall, Toni Morrison, Ellen Willis, Anne Koett, and Vivan Gornick.Gathered for the first time in one volume, these primary sources of radical feminism fill a major gap in the literature on feminism and feminist thought.Radical Feminismis an indispensable resource for future generations of feminists, scholars, and activists."This valuable anthology may well change the way many of us view radical feminism." --Resources for Feminist Research, Winter/Spring 2001, Vol. 28, No. 3/4

Author Biography

Barbara A. Crow is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Calgary.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction: Radical Feminism	1	(10)
PART 1. Political Statements and Processes: An Introduction	11	(290)
Why Women Are Oppressed	15	(184)
Toward a Female Liberation Movement	17	(40)
Beverly Jones
Judith Brown
Toward a Radical Movement	57	(7)
Heather Booth
Evi Goldfield
Sue Munaker
Women and the Radical Movement	64	(3)
Anne Koedt
What Is Liberation?
Women: A Journal of Liberation	67	(4)
Why Women's Liberation?	71	(11)
Marlene Dixon
Radical Feminism	82	(8)
Ti-Grace Atkinson
The Dialectic of Sex	90	(8)
Shulamith Firestone
The Relationship of Black Women to the Women's Liberation Movement	98	(15)
Cellestine Ware
The Personal Is Political	113	(4)
Carol Hanisch
The Enemy Within	117	(5)
Susan Brownmiller
Theory of Sexual Politics	122	(32)
Kate Millet
Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female	154	(9)
Frances Beal
Beyond Male Power ...
Ginny Berson for The Furies	163	(4)
The New Misandry	167	(4)
Joanna Russ
Male Supremacy	171	(12)
Lynn O'Connor
Psychology Constructs the Female: or The Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist (with Some Attention to the Fantasies of His Friends, the Male Biologist and the Male Anthropologist)	183	(16)
Naomi Weisstein
Manifestos	199	(72)
SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto	201	(22)
Valerie Solanas
Redstockings Manifesto	223	(3)
The Bitch Manifesto	226	(7)
Joreen Freeman
The Woman-Identified-Woman	233	(5)
Radicalesbians
The Fourth World Manifesto
Barbara Burris in agreement with Kathy Barry, Terry Moore, Joann DeLor, Joann Parent and Cate Stadelman	238	(27)
The Comingest Womanifesto (followed by Resolution of Lesbians International)	265	(4)
Jill Johnston
Radical Women Manifesto, Seattle	269	(2)
Methods: Consciousness-Raising	271	(30)
A Program for Feminist Consciousness-Raising	273	(4)
Kathie Sarachild
The Small Group Process	277	(5)
Pamela Allen
Consciousness-Raising	282	(5)
June Arnold
Consciousness	287	(14)
Vivian Gornick
PART 2. Sites of Contestation: An Introduction	301	(234)
Lesbianism	303	(66)
Lebianism and the Women's Liberation Movement	305	(5)
Martha Shelley
Is Women's Liberation a Lesbian Plot?	310	(15)
Sidney Abbott
Barbara Love
The Black Lesbian	325	(2)
Elandria V. Henderson
Black and Blacklesbian	327	(1)
Margaret Sloan
The Soul Selects: A New Separate Way	328	(4)
Frances
Lesbians in Revolt	332	(5)
Charlotte Bunch
Selections from Lesbian Nation	337	(21)
Jill Johnston
Radical Feminism? Dyke Separatism?	358	(7)
Jeanne Cordova
Women Divided?	365	(2)
Judy White
Have You Ever Asked a Black Lesbian to Dance?	367	(2)
Julie Jenkins
Heterosexuality	369	(32)
The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm	371	(7)
Anne Koedt
A Critique of the Miss America Protest	378	(4)
Carol Hanisch
The Pill: Genocide or Liberation	382	(6)
Toni Cade
On the Temptation to Be a Beautiful Object	388	(3)
Dana Densmore
A Marriage Agreement	391	(4)
Alix Shulman
Roxanne Dunbar: How a Female Heterosexual Serves the Interests of Male Supremacy	395	(6)
Rita Mae Brown
Children	401	(20)
Cooperative Nurseries	403	(5)
Rosalyn Baxandall
Action Committee for Decent Childcare: Organizing for Power	408	(4)
Day Creamer
Heather Booth
The Liberation of Children	412	(6)
Deborah Babcox
Day Care	418	(3)
Furies Action
Race	421	(58)
Introduction to The Black Woman: An Anthology	423	(4)
Toni Cade
Women's Liberation and the Black Panther Party
YAWF Women's Caucus	427	(3)
Racism: The Sexism of the Family of Man	430	(13)
Shulamith Firestone
Selections from Black Lesbian in White America	443	(7)
Anita Cornwell
An Argument for Black Women's Liberation as a Revolutionary Force	450	(3)
Maryanne Weathers
What the Black Woman Thinks about Women's Lib	453	(7)
Toni Morrison
Women in the Struggle
Third World Women's Alliance	460	(6)
Notes Prompted by the National Black Feminist Organization	466	(5)
Rita Laporte
On Women as a Colonized People	471	(2)
Robin Morgan
International Feminisn: A Call for Support of the Three Marias	473	(6)
Robin Morgan
Class	479	(56)
On Class Structure within the Women's Movement	481	(5)
Barbara Mehrhof
Female Liberation as the Basis for Social Revolution	486	(8)
Roxanne Dunbar
Woman and Her Mind: The Story of Daily Life	494	(5)
Meredith Tax
Class Beginnings	499	(3)
Nancy Myron
Women: Caste, Class, or Oppressed Sex?	502	(11)
Evelyn Reed
Women and the Left	513	(3)
Ellen Willis
Domestics	516	(5)
Vivien Leone
To My White Working-Class Sisters	521	(4)
Debby D'Amico
The Politics of Housework	525	(5)
Pat Mainardi
Housework: Slavery or Labor of Love	530	(5)
Betsy Warrior
Appendix 1: Radical Feminist Journals, 1967--1974	535	(3)
Appendix 2: List of Archives for Further Research	538	(3)
Bibliography	541	(20)
Permissions	561	(6)
Index	567	(8)
About the Editor	575