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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
“Rights of Passage” first appeared, in an earlier version, in Ms. magazine.
“Women Disrupt the Miss America Pageant” and all three of the articles included here on WITCH were originally published in Rat, and subsequently reprinted by Liberation News Service.
“Take a Memo, Mr. Smith” and “How to Freak Out the Pope,” in earlier versions, first were published in Win and Liberation magazines, respectively.
“The Media and the Man” first appeared, in slightly altered form, on the Op-Ed Page of the New York Times, December 22, 1970. Copyright © 1970 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
“Barbarous Rituals” is reprinted from Sist
erhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from The Women’s Liberation Movement.
All but one of the articles in Part III of this book first appeared in the Women’s Rat. “Goodbye to All That,” in addition, has been widely reprinted in both alternative and mass media, appearing in such varied publications as The Berkeley Tribe, The Chicago Seed, The Old Mole, It Ain’t Me Babe, Everywoman, Goodbye to All That, KNOW, Inc.’s Feminist Classic Pamphlets Series, Liberation News Service, The Great Speckled Bird, The Nickel Review, Leviathan, and in such anthologies as Voices from Women’s Liberation (Tanner, ed., Signet/New American Library, 1970) and Masculine/Feminine (Roszaks, eds., Harper & Row, 1972). “Goodbye to All That” also has been translated into French, Spanish, German, Danish, and Japanese, and has been published in feminist journals in those countries, as well as in England, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.
“On Women as a Colonized People” first appeared in Circle One: A Woman’s Beginning Guide to Self-Health and Sexuality, and was reprinted in The New Woman’s Survival Sourcebook (Grimstad and Rennie, eds., Knopf, 1975).
“Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?” was published in The Lesbian Tide, Amazon Quarterly, and The Second Wave, and is available as a reprint from KNOW, Inc., the feminist publishing house.
The article on Women’s Studies, herein entitled “The Proper Study of Womankind,” first appeared in transcript form in the book published by KNOW, Inc., Report on the West Coast Women’s Studies Conference. The version I reprint here has been edited for length.
INDEX
[The legend § indicates that the name or title most closely preceding it occurs as a main entry in the Reading List.]
Abbott, Sidney, §
abortion, 8, 11, 12, 59, 66, 75, 92, 101, 102, 103, 110, 118, 120, 138, 139, 140, 151, 158, 177n, 194, 199, 203, 290, 303
ageism, 9, 92, 177, 186, 207, 242; abolition as a feminist goal, 290
Agnew, Kim, 130
Agnew, Spiro, 130n, 131
Ain’t I A Woman?, 93, 177
airline stewardesses, 92, 215
Akhmatova, Anna, 206
Albany Four, 147–148
Algeria, 6, 76, 103, 196–197, 231, 241; Battle of Algiers, 65; FLN, 118
alimony, 90, 92
Allegro, Peggy, 185
Alpert, Jane, 17, 116, 128, 130, 222–226
Alta, 265
alternate institutions, 9–10, 93, 133–134, 157
Amazon Quarterly, 177, 185
Amazons, 83, 139, 142; “Amazon Nation,” 187; as negative model, 312
Andersen, Hans Christian, 287; see also dedication page
androcide, 308; see also death, gynocide, violence
Anouilh, Jean, 267
Anthony, Susan B., 55–56, 91, 157, 173, 190–191, 286, 313; see Stanton, §
anthropology, 95, 97, 106, 169, 197
architecture, 266, 274
Ariès, Phillipe, §
arrests, 65, 66, 88, 132–133, 200, 202, 204, 222, 295; see jail
art, xi, 3, 5, 11, 14, 15, 16, 23, 24, 51, 73, 99, 119, 140, 157, 175, 190, 191, 204–205, 206, 207, 218, 219–220, 221, 228, 233, 244, 245, 251, 265–289, 293, 306, 310, 313, 314; see also architecture, culture, dance, film, music, needlework, painting, poetry, quilting, sculpture, theater, troubadours, weaving, writing
Asian-American feminists, 6, 189
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, 222, 225, 294n
Atwood, Margaret, 265
Auschwitz, 225
Austen, Jane, 157, 267
Australia, 6, 205
Bach, J. S., 221, 313
Bachofen, J. J., 233, §
Bagnold, Enid, 267
Baird, Bill, 85, 88
Baldwin, James, 202
Barreño, Maria Isabel, 202; see also Marias, The Three, §
Barrett, Elizabeth, 157, 206, 285–286, 311, §
Barry, Kathleen, 17, 18n, 189
Bass, Ellen, see Howe, §
battery, 8, 66, 147, 148, 168, 182, 202–203, 228; Centers for Battered Women, 9; see also death, gynocide, rape, violence
Beard, Mary R., §
beauty standards, 4, 5, 16, 35, 39, 67, 77. 95, 97, 108–109, 111, 118, 162; revolutionary feminist beauty standards, 130; see also Miss America Pageant
de Beauvoir, Simone, xi, 86, 205, §
Bedford, Countess of, see Harington, Lucy
Beholding, The, 30, 33–34, 37, 47, 307n; see also Pitchford, Kenneth
Beltane, 225, 312; see Wicce
Benedict, Ruth, 106, §
Benston, Margaret, 196n
Bemikow, Louise, 203, 265, §
Berry, Dorothy, 298
Bird, Caroline, §
birth control, see contraception
bisexuality, 7, 104, 170, 175, 176, 186, 293
Bishop, Elizabeth, 265
black, children, 143; communities, 128, education demands, 198; consciousness, 202; culture, 271, 273; history, 98; men, 68, 70, 77, 89, 99, 120, 124, 307; women, 66, 68, 70, 89, 100, 123, see black feminism, minority women; see also colonization, racism, Third World
black feminism, 6, 68, 70, 94, 189; see National Black Feminist Organization; see also international feminism
black movement, 68, 97, 100, 102, 118; “black power, ” 68, 102–103; see also Black Panther Party, civil rights movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
black oppression, feminist analogy to, 68, 82–83, 84, 102, 165, 227
Black Panther Party, 70, 94, 100, 115, 117, 118, 126, 209
Blake, William, 52, 282, 294
Blizzard Ape, The, 40n; see Pitchford, §
Bogan, Louise, 265;
Bogin, Meg, 266, §
Boston, Mass., 15, 79, 87–89
Boucher, Catherine, 52
Boudin, Kathy, 133; see Weather women
“bra-buming, ” 10, 65
Bradstreet, Anne, 221
breast-feeding, 64, 159, 312
Brecht, Bertholt, 267
Brico, Antonia, 17
Briffault, Robert, 169, 233, §
Briller, Sara Welles, see Bird, §
Brontë sisters, 206, 267, 282; Charlotte, 206, 313, see Moglen, § Emily, 157, 206, 221, Wuthering Heights, 167
Brown, Rita Mae, 178
Browning, E. B., see Barrett
Browning, Robert, 286, 311
Brownmiller, Susan, 163, 165n, §
Buddhism, 247, 304; Zen, 304
Burris, Barbara, 118n
California, 55, 92, 100, 170–171, 173, 180, 189
Campbell, Joseph, 233, §
Camus, Albert, xi, 221
Canada, 6, 15, 64, 157, 170, 215, 313
capital punishment, 86
Carew, Thomas, 296
Carey, Elizabeth, 298
Carmichael, Stokely, 66
Carroll, Connie, 17
Cassatt, Mary, 221
Cather, Willa, 267
Catonsville Nine, 86, 87
Catt, Carrie Chapman, §
Cavendish, Margaret, 298
celibacy, 7, 176, 186, 303
censorship, 122, 166, 203–208, 257, 265, 267–268
Chaplin, Dorothea, §
Chapman, George, 276, 296
Chesler, Phyllis, 242n, §
Chiang Ch’ing, 69
Chicanas, 6, 189; see also Mexican women, Spanish-speaking women
childbirth, 5, 8, 11, 50–54, 63, 86, 112, 161n, 199, 230, 243, 291, 303, 310, 312, 313; extra-uterine birth, 11; see also inovulation
child care, 5, 7, 8, 9, 13, 16, 55, 64, 66, 92, 112, 118, 120, 131–132, 136, 140, 158, 159, 171, 192. 193, 195, 198, 207, 224, 290, 291
China, 6, 69, 118, 197, 205, 225, 312
Chopin, Frederic, 287, 312
Christianity, 72, 168, 224, 241, 266, 302; see Fundamentalist Christianity, “Jesus freaks,” Judeo-Christian tradition, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism
civil-rights movement, xi, 4, 62, 69, 85, 99, 102
class, barriers, 6, 92, 207; condescension, 119, 182, 251; consciousness, 149, 151�
�152; distinctions, 8, 15, 87, 92, 177, 184, 186, 238; guilt, xii, 6, 117, 119, 120, 189, 273; hatred, 9, 178; struggle, 72; “class traitors,” 178; transcendence of, 158
class analysis, 178, 185, 196; insufficiency of, 127, 148, 196
class and caste, 86, 95, 101, 160, 312
class and race, 98, 160
class and sex (men as a class), 139, 178, 284
classism, 186, 273
classlessness, 3
Cleaver, Eldridge, 70
Cleaver, Kathleen, 130
Cleveland, John, 300
clitoridectomies, 8, 105
cloning, see inovulation
Coalition of Labor Union Women, 6; see labor
coeducation, 95, 97, 193–195
Cohen, Bonnie, 130
Coil, see contraception
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 296
college-based feminism, 69, 73, 88, 94–97, 157, 165, 223–225; see women’s studies
colonization, 155, 160–162, 207, 231, 312
Color Photos of the Atrocities, 158; see Pitchford, §
consciousness-raising, xii, 5, 14, 44, 63, 68, 71–72, 73, 74, 86, 92, 96–97, 107, 117, 129, 134. 141, 147, 155–159, 163, 175, 177, 191–192, 195, 215, 217, 221, 227, 228, 244, 246, 249, 250, 265, 270, 289, 299–302, 312, 313, 314
Conspiracy, 124, 125, 128
consumer rights, 151, 197
contraception, 11, 66, 75, 85–89, 96, 101, 103, 105, 110–111, 139, 194, 199, 203, 290; see population
Cooper, David, 241, 242, 244
Cordova, Jeanne, 182
dalla Costa, Mariarosa, 196n
Cott, Nancy F., §
Countess of Dia, 285; see Bogin, §
Cowley, Abraham, 300
“crafts,” patriarchal definition of, 272; see art
Crane, Hart, 267
Crashaw, Richard, 295, 296
credit unions, feminist, 9
Cuba, 103, 118, 196
cultural boundaries, transcendence of, 291
culture, 273, 308–309, see anthropology, art; androcentric, 235n; American, 59, 104, 271–272; black, 271, 273; feminist or women’s, xii, 11, 14, 159, 161, 187, 205–208, 219, 265, 268, 271–272, 281, 298, 300, 305; immigrant, 273; Native American, 272; patriarchal, xii, 164–166, 178, 187–188, 202, 207, 235, 236, 245, 250, 272, 283, 293, see sexism; phallocentric, 166; “Western civilized” ritual, 107–112, 220