by Robin Morgan
Curtis, Charlotte, 93
Da Costa, Maria Velho, see Marias, The Three, §
Daly, Mary, 11, 294n, §
Damon, Gene, 177n
dance, 157, 220, 221, 282; Terpsichore, Muse of, 268–289; see art
Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), 176, 180; see lesbianism
Davis, Elizabeth Gould, 306–308, 313, §
Davis, Rennie, 82
death, 21, 26–27, 35–36, 50–51, 55, 110, 112, 121, 131, 143, 145–146, 147–148, 167, 170–171, 172, 173, 182, 183, 185, 200, 206, 207, 209, 211, 220, 222, 241, 263, 267–268, 269, 272, 274, 282, 287, 288, 291, 296, 298, 302–304, 306, 307, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313; see suicide
Death of a Salesman, 27
DeCrow, Karen, 15
Del Drago, Maria, 17
Dellinger, David, 123
Depression, 98
Detroit Radical Feminist Conference, 131, 156, 157
Deutsch, Helene, 230
dialectical process, 14, 119, 219–220, 248, 290–294, 297, 300–302, 305, 313
Dialectic of Sex, see Firestone, §
diaphragm, see contraception
Dickinson, Emily, 5, 206, 285–286
Diner, Helen, §
Di Prima, Dianne, 265
discrimination, in adolescence, 109–110; in childhood, 108; in education, 95–97, 108–109, 191, 207, 290; in employment, 8, 90, 98–99, 101, 110, 132, 168, 176, 191, 192–193, 290, see labor; in public accommodations, 67, 76, 101, 150; legal, 139, 290; see also ageism, classism, racism, sexism
Dohrn, Bernardine, 130, 183; see Students for a Democratic Society, Weather women
domestic workers, 6
Donne, John, 5, 267, 295–299, 300, 301, 302, § see Gransden, §
Double-F: A Magazine of Effeminism, 179, 235n
draft (military), 70, 78, 88, 90, 92, 99, 291; see also GI’s, Resistance
dreams, 30–32, 41, 42, 45, 107, 228, 245, 254–264, 306–307, 312
Drury, Elizabeth, 299
Dryden, John, 297
ecology, 9, 93, 106, 123, 126, 159, 205, 225–226, 290, 310
economic demands of feminists, 104, 105, 290; economic autonomy, 203; see credit unions, labor, Sisterhood is Powerful, Inc.
economics, of art, 3, 273, 287; of colonization, 161; of dating, 151; of educational funding, 193, 195; of housewifery, 196; of political organizing, 157; of pornography, 166–168; of women’s appearance, 180; see also alimony, class, discrimination (employment), prostitution, welfare
Edelson, Carol, 265
effeminism, 179, 239; see faggot-effeminists
Egypt, 6
Ehrenreich, Barbara, §
Eliot, George, 119, 157, 206, 267, 287; Middlemarch, 211
Eliot, T. S., 296–297
Elizabeth I (Elizabeth Tudor), 221, 297, 298, 299, 305; see Jenkins, §
Embree, Alice, 130
Engels, Friedrich, 283
England, 98, 297
English, Deirdre, see Ehrenreich, §
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 14, 60, 90, 92
Erinnyes, 142, 173
Essex, Earl of (Robert Devereux), 299
Evans, Mary Ann, see Eliot, George
Evervwoman, 93, 116
Ewen, C. L’Estrange, §
factory workers, 92, 98, 102, 189
faggot, etymology of, 235n, 313; faggot-effeminists, 174, 175, 179, 235n; see effeminism
family structure, 81, 94–95, 98, 105, 158, 159, 225, 229–230; see also ageism, child care, fatherhood, marriage, motherhood
Fanon, Frantz, xi, 161, 231, 241, 244, §
fatherhood, 26–27, 40–41, 50–54, 105, 106, 109, 125, 126, 158, 174, 229–230; paternity leave, 199
Faulkner, William, 34, 267
feminism, definitions of, 220, 228, 241, 287, 297; radical, definitions, of 9, 155; anti-definition of, 13; and mystical tradition, 304n; and psychiatry, 242; historic male responses to, see patriarchy; supportive male responses to, 239; see international feminism, metaphysical feminism; see also art, consciousness-raising, culture (feminist or women’s), sexuality, spirituality, women’s studies
feminist-black analogy, 68, 82–83, 84, 102, 165, 227
feminist-caste analogy, 86, 95, 101, 160, 312
feminist-colony analogy, 160–162; see colonization
feminist groups (partial listing), see alternate institutions, Asian-American feminists, black feminism, grammar-school and high-school feminism, labor groups, lesbianism, motherhood, older women’s liberation, prostitution, Spanish-speaking feminists
feminist media, see media
feminist revolution, xii, 9, 10, 135, 139, 159, 177, 178, 182, 185, 187, 196, 267, 287–288; basic demands of, 290–291; nationalist phase of, 267; metamorphosis through, 16, 23; separatist phase of, 292; see also freedom, history, political office, suffrage, violence
feminist studies, see women’s studies
Feminist Art Journal, 266
Feminist Press, 199
Feminists, The, 89n
Feminist Women’s Health Centers (FWHC’s), 9, 11
films, 49, 65, 167n, 230n, 254, 286, 287; women makers of, 9, 65, 266, 269
Firestone, Shulamith, 119, 290, §
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 192n
Fitzgerald, Zelda, 192n
Flexner, Eleanor, §
Florida, 16, 26–27, 64, 170, 194, 313
Fonda, Jane, 223, 224
foot-binding, 8
Ford, Betty, 14
Forman, Dinky, 130
Forman, James, 133
Fourth World Manifesto, 118–119, 156
Fowler, Linda, 16
France, 170, 204, 205
Francoeur, Robert, §
Franklin, Aretha, 142
Fraser, Kathleen, 265
Frazer, James G., 233, §
freedom, 130, 301; definitions of, 248–249, 294, 311, 312, 313; eluded, 249
Freeman, Stan, 125
Freud, Sigmund, 104, 119, 219, 227, 230
Friedan, Betty, 175–176, 178, 184
Fritz, Leah, 265, §
Fuller, Margaret, 157, §
Fundamentalist Christianity, 219, 304
Furies, 177, 178; see Erinnyes
Gage, Matilda Joslyn, see Stanton, §
Gardner, Helen, 296, §
Garson, Barbara, 82
“gay,” as trivializing name, 183–184; legislation, 183; men, 175, 176, 178, 179, 181, 183, 266; Gay Activists Alliance, 179, 183; Gay Liberation, 24, 116, 121, 128, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179; see faggot, faggot-effeminist, homosexuality, lesbianism
Gill, Theodore, 295n, §
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 196n, §
Ginsberg, Allen, 84
GI’s, 70, 84, 99, 118, 120, 137, 224; “troops,” 64, 101; see also draft (military), Resistance, Vietnam
goddess-worship, 12, 72, 187–188; see matriarchy, Wicce
Goulianos, Joan, §
Graham, Alma, xii
Graham, Martha, 221, 282
grammar-school feminism, 6
Gransden, K. W., §
Graves, Robert, 233, §
Gregorian chant, 303
Grier, Barbara, 184
Grierson, H. J. C., 295–296, 299n, §
Griffin, Susan, 265
Grillo, Gilda, 202, 203n
Grimstad, Kirsten, §
Grove Press, 132–133
Guardian, 59, 73
guerrilla theater, 5, 63, 78, 80, 88, 101
“Gumbo,” 130
gynarchy, see matriarchy
gynocide, 161, 186, 308; see also androcide, battery, death, violence
gynocracy, 187, 197; see matriarchy
Gypsies, 73, 139
Hacker, Marilyn, 265
hallucinogenic drugs, 242–245; acid (LSD), 51, 127, 243, 253; marijuana, 68, 77, 127, 194, 243; mescaline, 243; peyote 243
Hamill, Pete, 90
Hamilton, Edith, §
Hammer, Signe, 230n
Harington, Lucy, 298
Harlem, 225, 312
Harrison, Jane, 233, §
Hart, Lois,, 130
Haskell, Molly, 230n
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 267
Hayden, Tom, 223, 224
Hays, H. R., §
health, 5, 11, 13, 15, 89, 138, 160–162, 198, 209; see also abortion, childbirth, contraception, Feminist Women’s Health Centers, madness, midwifery, Our Bodies Ourselves, sexuality
Hefner, Hugh, 125
Hektor, 30–32, 56, 307–308, 313
Hellman, Lillian, 267
Herberger, Charles F., §
Herbert, George, 295, 296
Herbert, Mary Sidney, 298
Her Self, 177n
herstory, 10, 139, 220; coining of word, 121; see history (women’s), women’s studies
heterosexuality, 7, 14, 91, 156, 170, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 199, 234–235, 251, 279, 311, 312, 313, 314; Edenic potential of, 235n
Hetshapsut (Hatshepsut), 221
high-school feminism, 69, 92: on “home economics,” 13, 69
Hinduism, 202
Hiroshima, 225
history, 91, 95, 103, 107, 122, 129, 162, 190, 197, 198, 205, 208, 233, 237–240, 272, 273, 274, 278, 288, 298, 312, 313, 314; women’s, 21, 56, 62, 72, 77, 91, 96, 98–99, 156, 161, 175, 187, 190–191, 193, 194, 197, 198, 205–208, 225, 232, 237–240, 266, 288, 312, 313, 314; see Clio, Muse of, 268–289; see also herstory, matriarchy, mytho-history, women’s studies
Hitler, Adolf, 288
Hoffman, Abbie, 125, 182
Hoffman, Anita, 125n, 130
Hoffman, Judge Julius, 124
Holliday, Billie, 206
homosexuality, 91, 171, 181, 232, 242; female, see lesbianism; male, 24, 84, 102, 232, see also faggot, gay
Home, Lena, 285
Homey, Karen, 230
Horta, Maria Teresa, see Marias, The Three, §
hospital employees, 6
housewives, 6–7, 14, 59, 92, 94, 95, 96, 123, 148, 158, 186, 192, 195, 225, 242, 253; as feudal laborers, 196; average work week of, 196; unions for, 6, 92; wages for, 196; see housework; see also “runaway women”
housework, 3, 4, 6–7, 35–38, 43, 47, 83, 98, 99, 101, 102, 103, 111, 112, 124, 125, 138–139, 207, 209, 272, 311, 312; economics of as invisible labor. 196; wages for, 196
Howe, Florence, §
Hrovtsvitha, 285
humor, 125, 130, 210, 238, 281; Thalia, Muse of Comedy and the Pastoral, 268–289
hunger-strike, 200
Hutchinson, Anne, 206
Illinois, Galesburg, 222–226, 312
illiteracy, 21, 206; United Nations statistics on, 190
India, 6
Indonesia, 69
Inglis, Nancy, 17
inovulation (cloning), 11, 198
international feminism, 6, 15, 64, 65, 69, 76, 98, 108, 122, 155, 157, 170, 202–208, 215, 291, 313
intrauterine device (“IUD”), see contraception
Ireland, 219; IRA, 118; Londonderry, 134, 302; women’s peace movement in Northern Ireland, 131
Islam, 202, 302, 304; see Memissi, §
Israel, 6
It Ain’t Me, Babe, 93, 116
Iverson, Lucille, §
Jagger, Mick, 167, 182; see rock, sadism
jail, 12, 21, 67, 101, 118, 131, 133, 186, 200, 204, 207, 222, 224, 225; see arrests
James, Alice, 174n
James, Henry, 5, 174n, 267
James, Selma, 196n
Japan, 6
Jeannette Rankin Brigade, 100
Jeffers, Robinson, 267, § The Women at Point Sur, 221
Jenkins, Elizabeth, §
Jennings, Elizabeth, 265
“Jesus freaks,” 171, 172–173
Johnson, Samuel, 294, 297, 300–301, §
Johnston, Jill, 17, 182, 184, §
Jonson, Ben, 299
Jordan, June, 265
Judaism, 3, 40, 179, 202, 227, 273, 288, 303, 304; women rabbis, 11
Judeo-Christian tradition, 161, 303
Jung, C. G., 104, 233, §
K., see Kafka; Pitchford; Little Kay, see Andersen
Kafka, Franz, 5, 246, 248, 267, 287; The Trial, 221
Kaminski, Margaret, §
Keams, Martha, §
Keats, John, 283
Kennedy, Senator Edward, 124n
Kennedy, Ethel, 86, 87
Kennedy, Joan, 14
King, Billie Jean, 17
King, Bishop Henry, 296
Kizer, Carolyn, 265
KNOW, Inc., 118, 199
Knox, John, 304
Koedt, Anne, 104, §
Koestler, Arthur, xi
Kollwitz, Käthe, see Keams, §
Kopechne, Mary Jo, 124
de Koven, Anna, §
Kramer, Heinrich, §
Krassner, Holly, 130
Krassner, Paul, 125
Krebs, Sharon, 130
Kurshan, Nancy, 127, 130
Kusske, Norma, 15, 17
Labé, Louise, 221
labor, alienated under capitalism, 273; legislation, 9, 92; movement, 98; National Labor Relations Board, 132; of artists, 273–274; unions, 6, 60, 76, 117, 132, 151, 307, organizing by housewives, 6, 92, organizing by prostitutes, 307; see also childbirth, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Grove Press
Ladder, 177
Lady of the Beasts, 230n, 243n
Laing, R. D., 241, 242, 244
Lampe, Judy, 130
language, xi, xii, 47, 48, 52, 73, 95, 100, 106, 121, 125n, 138, 149, 158, 160, 165–166, 169, 183–184, 196, 197, 206, 225–226, 250, 265, 276, 287–289, 296–297, 300, 306, 310, 312
Larkin, Joan, 265
Laurel, 177
Lawrence, D. H., 34, 237n Lead, Jane, 304n
Lebanon, 134, 302
legal rights, 5, 13, 90, 92, 105, 165, 197, 203, 290; see also legislation, Women’s Law Centers
Leghorn, Lisa, 196n
legislation, 13, 59, 60, 85–88, 90, 92, 101, 103, 183
Leishman, J. B., 297, §
Lenin, V. I., 157, 178; “Leningitis,” 5
Lenzer, Gertrude, 236n
Lerner, Gerda, §
lesbianism, 7, 8, 14, 15, 94, 95, 102, 104, 109, 116, 128n, 155, 156, 166, 170–188, 189, 199, 232, 235, 251, 266, 277–278; lesbian mothers, 7, 8, 175; Lesbian Mothers Union, 177; see Daughters of Bilitis, Radicalesbians
Lesbian Tide, 177, 182
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 106, 169, 233, §
Lewes, George Henry, 287
Lewinsohn, Richard, §
Liberation, 59, 83–84, 123
Little Gerda, see Andersen
Little, Joann, 17
Little Kay, see Andersen
Loop, see contraception
Lopata, Helena, 196n
Lorde, Audre, 17, 265
Love, Barbara, see Abbott, §
Loyd, Dorothy Frances, §
Luciano, Iris, 130
Luther, Martin, 304
Luxemburg, Rosa, 89
Lydon, Sue, 104
lynchings, 147, 165
Lyon, Phyllis, 184; see Martin, §
Maddux, Hilary C, §
madness, xi, 45, 105, 130, 169, 172, 195, 203, 231, 241–264, 306, 308, 311, 312, 313; amulet of, 129; mental health industry, 242, 246–247; schizophrenia, 28, 44, 45, 219, 242; see paranoia
Mailer, Norman, 124, 125n, 191, 279
Mainardi, Pat, 265
Maines, Rachel, 266
“male chauvinism,” 124, 126, 128; misuse of term, 288
Malone, Donna, 130
man-hating, 71, 97, 150, 173, 178, 185
Manson, Charles, 123–124
Mao Tse-Tung, 69, 157
Marcuse, Herbert, 65, 98, 104, 194
Marias, The Three, 155, 202–208, 309, §
marriage, xi, 5, 15, 16, 21–56, 59, 60, 74, 87, 98, 102, 105–106, 111–112, 117, 149, 156, 158, 175, 177n, 180, 184, 186, 191, 225, 285–287, 311, 312, 313; Bridal Fair, 74, 80–81
martial arts, see self-defense
Martin, Del, 168, 174, 179, 184–185, §
Marvell, Andrew, 221, 267, 295, 296, 297
Marx, Karl, 104, 119, 156, 283–284, 290
masochism, see sado-masochism
masturbation, 109, 186, 229
matriarchy, ancient, 16, 187, 232, 308; island of Thera, 285; matriarchal religions, see Wicce; see also herstory, history (women’s)
McCarthy, Joseph, 99, 185, 209
McCarthy, Mary, 266
McFarland, Morgan, 17
McGovern, George, 183
Mead, Margaret, 105–106, §
media, 6, 12, 65, 73, 77, 90–93, 94, 100–101, 170, 171, 173, 175, 176; feminist, 9, 11, 93, 113–130, 141–152, 177, 277, 278; “gay,” 183; lesbian, 177; feminist recognition of news-women only, 63, 65; McLuhan standards, 157; see also New York Times, publishing industry
Melville, Samuel, 222, 224, 225
Memmi, Albert, 161, §
“men’s liberation” groups, 126
menstruation, 108, 111, 130, 306; menarche, 108, 230n; menopause, 88, 118, 230; menstrual extraction, 11
Mernissi, Fatima, §
Merriam, Eve, 265
metaphysical feminism, 11, 16, 250, 290–310, 311–314
Mew, Charlotte, 206, 267
Mexican women, 100; see Chicanas, Spanish-speaking women
Michel, Anneliese, 303n midwifery, 11, 198; meta-midwifery, 250, 294
Miles, Josephine, 265
Milford, Nancy, 192n
Miller, Henry, 279
Miller, Ruth Ann, 130
Millett, Kate, 173, 174, 180, 186, §
Mills, C. Wright, 91
Milton, John, 297
minority women, 15, 156, 158; see Asian-American women, black women, Chicanas, lesbianism, Native American women, Puerto Rican women, Third World women
Miss America Pageant, 59, 62–67, 69, 71, 101, 177n
Mitchell, Juliet, 196n
Mobilization against the Vietnam War (Mobe), 79
Moglen, Helene, §
monogamy, 4, 182, 185, 187, 251
Monster, 40n, 158, 174n, 230n, 231n, 243n
Montague, Ashley, 106
Moon, Terry, 118n
Moore, Honor, 265
Morgan, Elaine, 169, §
Morgan, Lewis H., 106
Morgan Pitchford, Blake Ariel, 3, 5, 16, 21, 50–56, 74, 117, 133, 134–135, 143, 149, 150, 151, 158–159, 173, 174, 175, 215, 221, 307–308, 311, 312, 313, 314
Muslims, see Islam
motherhood, xi, 3, 7–8, 14, 16, 24–25, 26–27, 41, 46, 49, 50–56, 66, 80, 94–95, 102, 105, 109, 112, 117, 126, 130, 131, 133, 135, 136, 138, 143, 148, 140–151, 156, 158–159, 161, 162, 164, 171, 174, 175, 176, 177, 180, 184, 187, 188, 191, 199, 203, 207, 208, 217, 225, 230, 251, 269, 272, 285, 293, 306–308, 309–310, 311, 312, 313, 314; see also abortion, family structure, housewives, lesbianism (mothers), matriarchy