Table of Contents |
| A Note on the Text | ix |
| Introduction | 1 |
Part I | Origins | |
| 1. | A Movement Arises | 21 |
| | | Sex and Caste / Casey Hayden, Mary King | 21 |
| | | We Don't Need the Men / Malvina Reynolds | 23 |
| | | An Appeal to Mothers, Black and White Mothers' Draft Resistance | 24 |
| | | Mother's Day Demonstration | 24 |
| | | Burial of Weeping Womanhood Radical Women's Group | 25 |
| | | What Concrete Steps Can Be Taken to Further the Homophile Movement / Shirley Willer | 26 |
| | | The Lesbian's Other Identity / Del Martin | 27 |
| | | Lesbianism and Feminism / Wilda Chase | 27 |
| | | To the Women of the Left SDS Women | 28 |
| | | The Mountain Movers / Susie Ling | 29 |
| | | Principles New York Radical Women | 34 |
| | | Outreach Leaflet Bread and Roses | 35 |
| | | Cocktales | 36 |
| | | Angry Notes from a Black Feminist / Doris Wright | 37 |
| | | Position Paper on Women Young Lords Party | 38 |
| | | American Foot Binding: Stamp Out High Heels | 40 |
| 2. | The New Left | 41 |
| | | Underground Woman / Mary Moylan | 42 |
| | | Women Unite! Free the Panthers! | 44 |
| | | Declaration of Women's Independence Bread and Roses | 45 |
| | | Women Shake Up SDS Session / Susan Sutheim | 48 |
| | | Brochure Radical America | 50 |
| | | Letter to the Left / Ellen Willis | 51 |
| | | Sisters in Struggle | 52 |
| | | Goodbye to All That / Robin Morgan | 53 |
| | | Unite to Win Chicago Women's Graphics Collective | 58 |
| | | Pissed Off About the War in Cambodia | 59 |
| | | Wuntrac | 61 |
| | | Cartoon and Letter Criticizing Sexist Cartoon / Fran Rominski, Naomi Weisstein | 63 |
| | | Platform Third World Gay Revolution | 64 |
| | | Statement Third World Women's Alliance | 65 |
| 3. | New Organizational Forms | 67 |
| | | The Small Group Process / Pamela Parker Allen | 67 |
| | | What We Do at Meetings Gainesville Women's Liberation | 70 |
| | | The Tyranny of Structurelessness / Jo Freeman | 73 |
| | | What Men Can Do for Women's Liberation Gainesville Women's Liberation | 76 |
| | | Women of La Raza Unite! | 77 |
| | | You Are Where You Eat / Laura Shapiro | 79 |
| | | Analysis of Chicago Women's Liberation School Chicago Women's Liberation Union | 82 |
| 4. | Feminist Theory | 84 |
| | | What Is a Woman? / Norma Allen | 84 |
| | | Are Men Really the Enemy? / Jayne West | 88 |
| | | Manifesto Redstockings | 90 |
| | | Radical Feminism and Love / Ti-Grace Atkinson | 91 |
| | | A Historical and Critical Essay for Black Women / Patricia Haden, Donna Middleton, Patricia Robinson | 93 |
| | | Socialist Feminism Chicago Women's Liberation Union | 96 |
| | | Fourth World Manifesto / Barbara Burris | 101 |
| | | You Are Not My God, Jehovah / Rev. Peggy Way | 103 |
| | | Reaching Beyond Intellect / Hallie Iglehart, Jeanne Scott-Senior | 105 |
| | | The Woman-Identified Woman Radicalesbians | 107 |
| | | Politicalesbians and the Women's Liberation Movement Anonymous Realesbians | 109 |
| | | On Separatism / Lee Schwing | 111 |
| | | I Am What I Am / Lorna Cherot | 112 |
Part II | Bodies | |
| 5. | Health | 117 |
| | | What Medical Students Learn / Kay Weiss | 118 |
| | | The Origins of Our Bodies Ourselves Boston Women's Health Book Collective | 120 |
| | | Women's Night at the Free Clinic / Kathy Campbell, Terry Dalsemer, Judy Waldman | 121 |
| | | Wonder Woman | 123 |
| | | Self-Help Clinic The West Coast Sisters | 124 |
| | | Brochure Feminist Women's Health Center | 126 |
| | | Using a Natural Sponge | 127 |
| | | Breastfeeding Successfully in Spite of Doctors and Hospitals / Sally Wendkos Olds | 128 |
| | | HR 1504, A Bill to Allow the Father to Attend the Birth of His Child | 130 |
| | | Breathing Life into Ourselves: The Evolution of the National Black Women's Health Project / Byllye Y. Avery | 131 |
| 6. | Reproductive Rights | 134 |
| | | Women Must Control the Means of Reproduction / Irene Peslikis, Peslikis, Irene | 134 |
| | | Poor Black Women Black Sisters / Patricia Robinson | 135 |
| | | Off the Pill / Judith Coburn | 136 |
| | | On Abortion and Abortion Law / Lucinda Cisler | 140 |
| | | Hernia: A Satire / Sarah Wernick Lockeretz | 144 |
| | | Women Learn to Perform Abortions "Jane" | 145 |
| | | Who Needs a Shepherd? Catholics for a Free Choice | 147 |
| | | Friends of the Fetus / Irene Peslikis | 148 |
| | | An African American Woman Speaks Out for Abortion Rights / Mary Treadwell | 149 |
| | | Sterilization: Rights and Abuse of Rights / Joan Kelly | 150 |
| | | Posters Against Sterilization Abuse | 152 |
| | | Starting Over / Sonia Jaffe Robbins | 154 |
| 7. | Sexuality | 155 |
| | | Venus Observed / Ruth Davis | 155 |
| | | What's an Orgasm? | 157 |
| | | The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm / Anne Koedt | 158 |
| | | The Happiest Day of My Life | 163 |
| | | Liberating Masturbation / Betty Dodson | 164 |
| | | My First Orgasm / Karen Sandler | 165 |
| | | First National Chicana Conference Workshop Resolutions | 166 |
| | | It Just Happened B.K.O. | 167 |
| | | Smash Phallic Imperialism / Sue Katz | 169 |
| | | Boycotting Pornographic Records / Julia London | 171 |
| | | HIRE (Hooking Is Real Employment) | 173 |
| 8. | Objectification, Harassment, Violence | 175 |
| | | Death in the Spectacle / Linda Phelps | 175 |
| | | A Pretty Girl Is Like a Commodity / Bev Grant | 180 |
| | | Body Odor and Social Order / Florika | 181 |
| | | Poster / Florika | 183 |
| | | Excerpt from "No More Miss America," New York Radical Women | 184 |
| | | A Critique of the Miss America Protest / Carol Hanisch | 185 |
| | | Hairy Legs Freak Fishy Liberal / Sheilah Drummond | 187 |
| | | Untitled News Story about High School Girl Sassing a Mayor | 188 |
| | | Antes de hacer dieta | 189 |
| | | Fat Chance Performance Group / Cathy Cade | 190 |
| | | Fat Liberation Manifesto / Judith Freespirit, Aldebaran | 191 |
| | | Little Rapes | 192 |
| | | Rape: The All American Crime / Karen Lindsey, Holly Newman, Fran Taylor | 195 |
| | | The Mass Psychology of Rape / Susan Brownmiller | 196 |
| | | Black Women Organizing Against Rape / Nekenge Toure, Michele Plate | 197 |
| | | The Case of Inez Garcia / Susan Jordan | 201 |
| | | The Sexual Abuse of Children / Florence Rush | 204 |
| | | Women's Martial Arts Demonstrations / Cathy Cade | 206 |
| | | Karate As Self-Defense for Women / Susan Pascale, Rachel Moon, Leslie Tanner | 207 |
| | | La Virgen de Guadalupe Defendiendo los Derechos de los Xicanos / Ester Hernandez | 209 |
Part III | Institutions | |
| 9. | Family | 213 |
| | | For Sadie and Maud / Eleanor Holmes Norton | 213 |
| | | What's in a Name? / Julie Coryell | 216 |
| | | Machismo / Denise Oliver | 217 |
| | | A Marriage Agreement / Alix Kates Shulman | 218 |
| | | Communal Living | 221 |
| | | The Five of Us / Vicki Cohn Pollard | 222 |
| | | Hippie Communes / Vivian Estellachild | 225 |
| | | Speaking of Spock / Jo Ann Hoit | 226 |
| | | The Single Mother Experience / Karol Hope | 229 |
| | | The Sisterhood of Black Single Mothers / Daphne Busby | 232 |
| | | Lesbian Mothers and Their Children | 233 |
| | | Why Day Care? / Louise Gross, Phyllis Taube Greenleaf | 234 |
| 10. | Education | 237 |
| | | Consciousness Razors / Verne Moberg | 237 |
| | | Gender in the Fourth Grade / Kevin Karkau | 239 |
| | | What Every Young Girl Should Ask High School Women's Liberation Coalition | 242 |
| | | Testimony of a High School Pitcher / Ruth Colker | 243 |
| | | Baseball Family / Cathy Cade | 245 |
| | | Courses, 1973 Chicago Liberation School for Women | 246 |
| | | Nuts to Bolts | 247 |
| | | Library Sit-in for Women's History / Cathy Cade | 249 |
| | | Dear Sisters NY Radical Feminists Cabaret | 250 |
| | | Women's Studies As a Pledge of Resistance / Adrienne Rich | 251 |
| | | Women's Studies / Lillian Robinson | 252 |
| | | Feminism in the Bible Belt / Judith P. Jones | 252 |
| 11. | Work | 254 |
| | | The Politics of Housework / Pat Mainardi | 255 |
| | | Wages for Housework | 258 |
| | | Wages Against Housework / Silvia Federici | 259 |
| | | Margaret F. Stewart, Our Lady of Guadalupe / Yolanda M. Lopez | 261 |
| | | Luring Women into the Armed Forces / Kate Wall | 262 |
| | | AFT Resolution on Women's Rights | 263 |
| | | Learning Auto Repair / Cathy Cade | 264 |
| | | Open Letter to Local #1299 United Steelworkers of America | 265 |
| | | Does Your Boss Know You're Gay? | 266 |
| | | The Era of Tokenism and the Role Model Trap / Caroline Walker Bynum | 267 |
| | | The Secretary's Chant / Marge Piercy | 269 |
| | | Women Unionize Office Jobs / Renee Blakkan | 270 |
| | | 59 cents, A Woman's Dollar | 272 |
| | | What About the Secretaries? Bread and Roses | 273 |
| | | TWA Stewardesses on Strike / Cathy Cade | 273 |
| | | Sexual Harassment: Working Women's Dilemma / Dierdre Silverman | 274 |
| | | Radio News Women's Clearinghouse | 276 |
| | | Every Mother a Working Mother / Diana Mara Henry | 278 |
| | | Welfare Is a Women's Issue / Johnnie Tillmon | 279 |
| 12. | Culture | 282 |
| | | At Home in San Jose / Judy Linhares | 282 |
| | | Samplers: One of the Lesser American Arts / Toni Flores Fratto | 283 |
| | | How to Name Baby | 285 |
| | | Anatomy Is Destiny or... Just Like Daddy / Virginia W. Morgan | 286 |
| | | Women and the Myth of Consumerism / Ellen Willis | 288 |
| | | Pregnant Woman in a Ball of Yarn / Barbara Carrasco | 291 |
| | | Linen Closet / Sandy Orgel | 292 |
| | | There Was a Young Woman Who Swallowed a Lie... / Meredith Tax | 293 |
| | | Breaking Out | 295 |
| | | The Reception / June Jordan | 296 |
| | | Witch / Jean Tepperman | 296 |
| | | Medusa | 297 |
| | | A Geology Lesson / Judy Grahn | 298 |
| | | The Young Warrior Gayle Two Eagles | 298 |
| | | Mountain-Moving Day Chicago Women's Graphic Collective | 299 |
| | | Women Invade The Boston Globe / Lynn Evans | 300 |
| | | Stickers to Paste on Advertisements Bread and Roses | 301 |
| | | I've Been in Her Shoes | 302 |
| | | Days of Celebration and Resistance: The Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi Weisstein | 303 |
| | | Women's Music 101 / Jennifer Baumgardner | 307 |
| | | Portrait of the Artist As the Virgin of Guadalupe / Yolanda M. Lopez | 309 |
| | | Among the Things That Use to Be / Willie M. Coleman | 310 |
| | | In the Beauty Parlor / Phyllis Ewen | 311 |
| Sources | 313 |
| Further Reading | 318 |
| Acknowledgments | 319 |
| Index of Contributors | 321 |