The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's LiberationRachel Blau DuPlessis, Ann Barr Snitow 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. |
Contents
Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth Vivian Rothstein | 25 |
Barbara W Emerson | 54 |
Dana Densmore | 71 |
Roxanne Dunbar | 90 |
Elizabeth Betita Martinez | 115 |
Barbara Epstein | 124 |
Anselma DellOlio | 149 |
Jo Freeman | 171 |
Alix Kates Shulman | 284 |
Nadine Taub | 304 |
Priscilla Long | 324 |
Joan Nestle | 338 |
Nancy Spero | 362 |
Barbara Omolade | 377 |
Minne Bruce Pratt | 409 |
Michele Wallace | 426 |
Carol Hanisch | 181 |
Two Letters from the Womens Liberation Movement | 197 |
Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall | 208 |
Barbara Winslow | 225 |
Lourdes Benerķa | 249 |
Alice J Wolfson | 268 |
Yvonne Rainer | 443 |
Some Responses a note from RBD and AS | 467 |
Memories | 477 |
Kate Millett | 493 |
Notes on Contributors | 513 |
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