Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist GenerationIn this new, expanded edition of the acclaimed collection, writers and activists such as Rebecca Walker, Nomy Lamm, and Inga Muscio are joined by Lisa Miya-Jervis, publisher of Bitch; Alison Crews, editor of Girl-Mom; and Daisy Hernandez of Ms. Together, they cover a wide range of topics, from blending careers and feminist politics to the intersection of traditional culture and third-wave sensibilities. |
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User Review - LibraryDiva76 - LibraryThingOne of the first women's studies books I ever read in college. It attracted me because it was written by women around my own age, and inspired me to go on and minor in the subject in college. I still have it, nearly 15 years later, and plan to pick up the new edition soon. Read full review
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Contents
Class Feminist | 165 |
On the Rag | 173 |
Imagine My Surprise | 182 |
Knowledge Is Power | 188 |
Taking It to the Streets | 197 |
Bringing Feminism a la Casa | 209 |
What Is Mine | 212 |
Tight Jeans and Chania Chorris | 223 |
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One Bad Hair Day Too Many or The Hairstory of an Androgynous Young Feminist | 84 |
Ghosts and Goddesses | 89 |
The Body Politic | 103 |
Abortion Vacuum Cleaners and the Power Within | 112 |
Reality Check | 118 |
Why I Fight Back | 126 |
Its a Big Fat Revolution | 133 |
And So I Chose | 142 |
Woman Who Clears the Way | 153 |
The Immaculate Conception | 229 |
Better in the Bahamas? Not If Youre a Feminist | 239 |
Selling Out | 247 |
Some Things You Keep With You | 253 |
Betrayal Feminism | 258 |
Word Warrior | 265 |
One Resilient Baby | 272 |
This Place Called Home | 281 |
IsolatedConnected | 288 |
Contributors | 294 |
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Page 51 - It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.
Page 241 - I mean the term lesbian continuum to include a range — through each woman's life and throughout history — of woman-identified experience; not simply the fact that a woman has had or consciously desired genital sexual experience with another woman. If we expand it to embrace many more forms of primary intensity between and among women, including the sharing of a rich inner life, the bonding against male tyranny, the giving and receiving of practical and political support...
Page 18 - I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.
Page 51 - Mongolian, the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world, — a world which yields him no true self consciousness, but only lets him see himself through the revelation of the other world.
Page 239 - The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, antifamily political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
Page 95 - The truly wise mourn neither for the living nor for the dead. There was never a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor any of these kings. Nor is there any future in which we shall cease to be.
Page 181 - Feminist Theory: from Margin to Center (Boston: South End Press, 1984); and Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990).
Page 72 - women'? What is this 'women' thing you're talking about? Does that mean me? Does that mean my mother, my roommates, the white woman next door, the check-out clerk at the supermarket, my aunts in Korea, half the world's population?"34 One result of the emphasis on difference has been to alter terminology.
Page 95 - Feelings of heat and cold, pleasure and pain, are caused by the contact of the senses with their objects. They come and they go, never lasting long. You must accept them. A serene spirit accepts pleasure and pain with an even mind, and is unmoved by either. He alone is worthy of immortality. That which is non-existent can never come into being, and that which is can never cease to be.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Listen Up: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation Live Girls Series Women's studies : Popular culture |
| Editor | Barbara Findlen |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Seal Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 1580050549, 9781580050548 |
| Length | 301 pages |
| Subjects | › Social Science / Essays Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory Social Science / Women's Studies |
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