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Dear sisters : dispatches from the women's liberation movement / Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, NY : Basic Books, c2000.Description: xiv, 322 p., : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
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Today's women are so comfortable in their authority that they often forget to credit the women's liberation movement of the 1960s and '70s for paving the way--from the kitchen to the boardroom, from sexual harassment to self-defense, from cheerleading on the sidelines to playing center on the team.Distinguished scholars and active participants in the movement, Linda Gordon and Rosalyn Baxandall have collected a colorful array of documents--songs, leaflets, cartoons, position papers--that illustrate the range of people, places, organizations, and ideas that made up the movement. Dear Sisters chronicles historical change in such broad areas as health, work, and family, and captures the subtle humor, unceasing passion, and overwhelming diversity that defined the women's liberation movement.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • A Note on the Text (p. ix)
  • Introduction (p. 1)
  • Part I Origins
  • 1. A Movement Arises (p. 21)
  • Sex and Caste (p. 21)
  • We Don't Need the Men (p. 23)
  • An Appeal to Mothers, Black and White (p. 24)
  • Mother's Day Demonstration (p. 24)
  • Burial of Weeping Womanhood (p. 25)
  • What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement (p. 26)
  • The Lesbian's Other Identity (p. 27)
  • Lesbianism and Feminism (p. 27)
  • To the Women of the Left (p. 28)
  • The Mountain Movers (p. 29)
  • Principles (p. 34)
  • Outreach Leaflet (p. 35)
  • Cocktales (p. 36)
  • Angry Notes from a Black Feminist (p. 37)
  • Position Paper on Women (p. 38)
  • American Foot Binding: Stamp Out High Heels (p. 40)
  • 2. The New Left (p. 41)
  • Underground Woman (p. 42)
  • Women Unite! Free the Panthers! (p. 44)
  • Declaration of Women's Independence (p. 45)
  • Women Shake Up SDS Session (p. 48)
  • Brochure (p. 50)
  • Letter to the Left (p. 51)
  • Sisters in Struggle (p. 52)
  • Goodbye to All That (p. 53)
  • Unite to Win (p. 58)
  • Pissed Off About the War in Cambodia (p. 59)
  • Wuntrac (p. 61)
  • Cartoon and Letter Criticizing Sexist Cartoon (p. 63)
  • Platform (p. 64)
  • Statement (p. 65)
  • 3. New Organizational Forms (p. 67)
  • The Small Group Process (p. 67)
  • What We Do at Meetings (p. 70)
  • The Tyranny of Structurelessness (p. 73)
  • What Men Can Do for Women's Liberation (p. 76)
  • Women of La Raza Unite! (p. 77)
  • You Are Where You Eat (p. 79)
  • Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School (p. 82)
  • 4. Feminist Theory (p. 84)
  • What Is a Woman? (p. 84)
  • Are Men Really the Enemy? (p. 88)
  • Manifesto (p. 90)
  • Radical Feminism and Love (p. 91)
  • A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women (p. 93)
  • Socialist Feminism (p. 96)
  • Fourth World Manifesto (p. 101)
  • You Are Not My God, Jehovah (p. 103)
  • Reaching Beyond Intellect (p. 105)
  • The Woman-Identified Woman (p. 107)
  • Politicalesbians and the Women's Liberation Movement (p. 109)
  • On Separatism (p. 111)
  • I Am What I Am (p. 112)
  • Part II Bodies
  • 5. Health (p. 117)
  • What Medical Students Learn (p. 118)
  • The Origins of Our Bodies Ourselves (p. 120)
  • Women's Night at the Free Clinic (p. 121)
  • Wonder Woman (p. 123)
  • Self-Help Clinic (p. 124)
  • Brochure (p. 126)
  • Using a Natural Sponge (p. 127)
  • Breastfeeding Successfully in Spite of Doctors and Hospitals (p. 128)
  • HR 1504, A Bill to Allow the Father to Attend the Birth of His Child (p. 130)
  • Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project (p. 131)
  • 6. Reproductive Rights (p. 134)
  • Women Must Control the Means of Reproduction (p. 134)
  • Poor Black Women (p. 135)
  • Off the Pill (p. 136)
  • On Abortion and Abortion Law (p. 140)
  • Hernia: A Satire (p. 144)
  • Women Learn to Perform Abortions (p. 145)
  • Who Needs a Shepherd? (p. 147)
  • Friends of the Fetus (p. 148)
  • An African American Woman Speaks Out for Abortion Rights (p. 149)
  • Sterilization: Rights and Abuse of Rights (p. 150)
  • Posters Against Sterilization Abuse (p. 152)
  • Starting Over (p. 154)
  • 7. Sexuality (p. 155)
  • Venus Observed (p. 155)
  • What's an Orgasm? (p. 157)
  • The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm (p. 158)
  • The Happiest Day of My Life (p. 163)
  • Liberating Masturbation (p. 164)
  • My First Orgasm (p. 165)
  • First National Chicana Conference (p. 166)
  • It Just Happened (p. 167)
  • Smash Phallic Imperialism (p. 169)
  • Boycotting Pornographic Records (p. 171)
  • HIRE (Hooking Is Real Employment) (p. 173)
  • 8. Objectification, Harassment, Violence (p. 175)
  • Death in the Spectacle (p. 175)
  • A Pretty Girl Is Like a Commodity (p. 180)
  • Body Odor and Social Order (p. 181)
  • Poster (p. 183)
  • Excerpt from "No More Miss America," (p. 184)
  • A Critique of the Miss America Protest (p. 185)
  • Hairy Legs Freak Fishy Liberal (p. 187)
  • Untitled News Story about High School Girl Sassing a Mayor (p. 188)
  • Antes de hacer dieta (p. 189)
  • Fat Chance Performance Group (p. 190)
  • Fat Liberation Manifesto (p. 191)
  • Little Rapes (p. 192)
  • Rape: The All American Crime (p. 195)
  • The Mass Psychology of Rape (p. 196)
  • Black Women Organizing Against Rape (p. 197)
  • The Case of Inez Garcia (p. 201)
  • The Sexual Abuse of Children (p. 204)
  • Women's Martial Arts Demonstrations (p. 206)
  • Karate As Self-Defense for Women (p. 207)
  • La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos (p. 209)
  • Part III Institutions
  • 9. Family (p. 213)
  • For Sadie and Maud (p. 213)
  • What's in a Name? (p. 216)
  • Machismo (p. 217)
  • A Marriage Agreement (p. 218)
  • Communal Living (p. 221)
  • The Five of Us (p. 222)
  • Hippie Communes (p. 225)
  • Speaking of Spock (p. 226)
  • The Single Mother Experience (p. 229)
  • The Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers (p. 232)
  • Lesbian Mothers and Their Children (p. 233)
  • Why Day Care? (p. 234)
  • 10. Education (p. 237)
  • Consciousness Razors (p. 237)
  • Gender in the Fourth Grade (p. 239)
  • What Every Young Girl Should Ask (p. 242)
  • Testimony of a High School Pitcher (p. 243)
  • Baseball Family (p. 245)
  • Courses, 1973 (p. 246)
  • Nuts to Bolts (p. 247)
  • Library Sit-in for Women's History (p. 249)
  • Dear Sisters (p. 250)
  • Women's Studies As a Pledge of Resistance (p. 251)
  • Women's Studies (p. 252)
  • Feminism in the Bible Belt (p. 252)
  • 11. Work (p. 254)
  • The Politics of Housework (p. 255)
  • Wages for Housework (p. 258)
  • Wages Against Housework (p. 259)
  • Margaret F. Stewart, Our Lady of Guadalupe (p. 261)
  • Luring Women into the Armed Forces (p. 262)
  • AFT Resolution on Women's Rights (p. 263)
  • Learning Auto Repair (p. 264)
  • Open Letter to Local #1299 (p. 265)
  • Does Your Boss Know You're Gay? (p. 266)
  • The Era of Tokenism and the Role Model Trap (p. 267)
  • The Secretary's Chant (p. 269)
  • Women Unionize Office Jobs (p. 270)
  • 59 cents, A Woman's Dollar (p. 272)
  • What About the Secretaries? (p. 273)
  • TWA Stewardesses on Strike (p. 273)
  • Sexual Harassment: Working Women's Dilemma (p. 274)
  • Radio News (p. 276)
  • Every Mother a Working Mother (p. 278)
  • Welfare Is a Women's Issue (p. 279)
  • 12. Culture (p. 282)
  • At Home in San Jose (p. 282)
  • Samplers: One of the Lesser American Arts (p. 283)
  • How to Name Baby (p. 285)
  • Anatomy Is Destiny or... Just Like Daddy (p. 286)
  • Women and the Myth of Consumerism (p. 288)
  • Pregnant Woman in a Ball of Yarn (p. 291)
  • Linen Closet (p. 292)
  • There Was a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie... (p. 293)
  • Breaking Out (p. 295)
  • The Reception (p. 296)
  • Witch (p. 296)
  • Medusa (p. 297)
  • A Geology Lesson (p. 298)
  • The Young Warrior (p. 298)
  • Mountain-Moving Day (p. 299)
  • Women Invade The Boston Globe (p. 300)
  • Stickers to Paste on Advertisements (p. 301)
  • I've Been in Her Shoes (p. 302)
  • Days of Celebration and Resistance: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 (p. 303)
  • Women's Music 101 (p. 307)
  • Portrait of the Artist As the Virgin of Guadalupe (p. 309)
  • Among the Things That Use to Be (p. 310)
  • In the Beauty Parlor (p. 311)
  • Sources (p. 313)
  • Further Reading (p. 318)
  • Acknowledgments (p. 319)
  • Index of Contributors (p. 321)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Middle-aged feminists will greet with delight this wide-ranging compilation of original documents from 1968 to 1977, the days of "maximum grassroots participation in the women's movement." Two distinguished historians have gathered these articles, leaflets, position papers, drawings, and cartoons to record the thinking of myriad feminist groups overlooked by historians because of the difficulty in locating documents often written collectively or anonymously and circulated by samizdat. (Originals are now in the New York University library, available to the public.) The authors introduce the collection with an essay placing the movement in historical perspective, and each entry has its own brief introductory annotation. The documentsDmost have been abridgedDare arranged in broad topical areas, and the diversity of perspectives is admirable. Although there is some overlap with Radical Feminism: A Documentary Reader, edited by Barbara Crow (New York Univ., 2000), Crow's focus on longer theoretical pieces will serve a scholarly audience, while Baxandall and Gordon's work will attract a larger public readership. Most libraries will want this volume.DCynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Baxandall and Gordon coedited America's Working Women (1995); here, they provide a documentary history of second-wave feminism from the mid-'60s to the late '70s. Their collection is notably inclusive, pulling together song lyrics and cartoons as well as manifestos and theory. Part 1, "Origins," collects items from the movement's early days, reflections on the New Left, documents on the new organizational forms the movement developed, and initial efforts to forge feminist theory. Part 2, "Bodies," covers women's health initiatives, reproductive rights, sexuality, and the related issues of objectification, harassment, and violence. Part 3, "Institutions," describes the movement's evolving attitudes toward family, education, work, and culture. Contributors include familiar names and obscure ones, as well as the many groups, from the Redstockings to Gainesville Women's Liberation, that contributed to the national conversation about the meaning of liberation. The editors contribute an introduction that traces the multiple misunderstandings (willful and otherwise) of feminism, outlines the political roots of women's lib, offers an overview of the movement's history, and outlines what it accomplished. Eclectic and valuable. --Mary Carroll
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