The Feminist Memoir Project
560 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2
Paperback
Release Date:30 Jan 2007
ISBN:9780813539737
The Feminist Memoir Project
Voices from Women's Liberation
Edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow
Rutgers University Press
The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. These thirty-two writers were among the thousands to jump-start feminism in the late twentieth century. Here, in pieces that are passionate, personal, critical, and witty, they describe what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation.
What made these particular women rebel? And what experiences, ideas, feelings, and beliefs shaped their activism? How did they maintain the will and energy to keep such a struggle going for so long, and continuing still?
Memoirs and responses by Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick, Michele Wallace, Alix Kates Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, Ellen Willis, Eve Ensler, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Roxanne Dunbar, Naomi Weisstein, Alice Wolfson and many more embody the excitement that fueled the movement and the conflicts that threatened it from within. Their stories trace the ways the world has changed.
What made these particular women rebel? And what experiences, ideas, feelings, and beliefs shaped their activism? How did they maintain the will and energy to keep such a struggle going for so long, and continuing still?
Memoirs and responses by Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick, Michele Wallace, Alix Kates Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, Ellen Willis, Eve Ensler, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Roxanne Dunbar, Naomi Weisstein, Alice Wolfson and many more embody the excitement that fueled the movement and the conflicts that threatened it from within. Their stories trace the ways the world has changed.
The Feminist Memoir Project has put back in the historical record dozens of urgent voices that were on the verge of being lost forever. What a fascinating, vital-and vitally important book.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a professor of English and women's studies at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Ann Snitow is a professor of literature and gender studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in New York City.
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Ann Snitow is a professor of literature and gender studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in New York City.
9/26/14- will be a lightning po title. will email you when proof is accepted
Preface to the 2007 edition
A feminist memoir project / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow
Our gang of four: friendship and women's liberation / Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi Weisstein
Coming of age: civil rights and feminism / Barbara W. Emerson
A year of living dangerously: 1968 / Dana Densmore
Outlaw women: chapters from a feminist memoir-in-progress / Roxanne Dunbar
History makes us, we make history / Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
Ambivalence about feminism / Barbara Epstein
Home before sundown / Anselma Dell'Olio
On the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a strictly personal perspective / Jo Freeman
Two letters from the Women's Liberation Movement / Carol Hanisch
Catching the fire / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall
Primary and secondary contradictions in Seattle: 1967-1969 / Barbara Winslow
In the wilderness of one's inner self: living feminism / Lourdes Beneria
Clenched fist, open heart / Alice J. Wolfson
A marriage disagreement, or Marriage by other means / Alix Kates Shulman
On Becoming a feminist/lawyer / Nadine Taub
"For people hear us singing, 'Bread and roses! Bread and roses!'" / Meredith Tax
We called ourselves sisters / Priscilla Long
A fem's feminist history / Joan Nestle
Days of celebration and resistance: the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi Weisstein
The art of getting to equal / Nancy Spero
What feminism means to me / Vivian Gornick
Sisterhood in Black and White / Barbara Omolade
The buried Yes / Minne Bruce Pratt
An activist love story / Paula Allen and Eve Ensler
To Hell and back: on the road with Black feminism in the 1960s & 1970s / Michele Wallace? Skirting / Yvonne Rainer
"Ain't I a feminist?": re-forming the circle / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Some responses (a note from RBD and AS)
Notes from the aftermath / AnnJanette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite
"Feisty characters" and "Other people's causes": memories of White racism and U.S. feminism / Barbara Smith
My memoir problem / Ellen Willis
Sisters in struggle: a belated response / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
How many lives are here? / Kate Millett
A feminist memoir project / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow
Our gang of four: friendship and women's liberation / Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi Weisstein
Coming of age: civil rights and feminism / Barbara W. Emerson
A year of living dangerously: 1968 / Dana Densmore
Outlaw women: chapters from a feminist memoir-in-progress / Roxanne Dunbar
History makes us, we make history / Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez
Ambivalence about feminism / Barbara Epstein
Home before sundown / Anselma Dell'Olio
On the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a strictly personal perspective / Jo Freeman
Two letters from the Women's Liberation Movement / Carol Hanisch
Catching the fire / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall
Primary and secondary contradictions in Seattle: 1967-1969 / Barbara Winslow
In the wilderness of one's inner self: living feminism / Lourdes Beneria
Clenched fist, open heart / Alice J. Wolfson
A marriage disagreement, or Marriage by other means / Alix Kates Shulman
On Becoming a feminist/lawyer / Nadine Taub
"For people hear us singing, 'Bread and roses! Bread and roses!'" / Meredith Tax
We called ourselves sisters / Priscilla Long
A fem's feminist history / Joan Nestle
Days of celebration and resistance: the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi Weisstein
The art of getting to equal / Nancy Spero
What feminism means to me / Vivian Gornick
Sisterhood in Black and White / Barbara Omolade
The buried Yes / Minne Bruce Pratt
An activist love story / Paula Allen and Eve Ensler
To Hell and back: on the road with Black feminism in the 1960s & 1970s / Michele Wallace? Skirting / Yvonne Rainer
"Ain't I a feminist?": re-forming the circle / Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Some responses (a note from RBD and AS)
Notes from the aftermath / AnnJanette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite
"Feisty characters" and "Other people's causes": memories of White racism and U.S. feminism / Barbara Smith
My memoir problem / Ellen Willis
Sisters in struggle: a belated response / Beverly Guy-Sheftall
How many lives are here? / Kate Millett
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