11 Ohio University professor Katherine Jellison, “who studies first ladies,” quoted in Nicole Guadiano, “First Professor: Jill Biden to Make History as a First Lady with a Day Job,” Politico, 12 Nov. 2020 (ellipsis hers), www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/11/12/first-professor-jill-biden-to-make-history-as-a-first-lady-with-a-day-job-1336242.
12 Most notoriously, Senator David Purdue (R-GA), campaigning for reelection at a rally on October 16, 2020, badly mangled the name of his Senate colleague; see www.nbcnews.com/video/perdue-mispronounces-sen-kamala-harris-name-at-rally-94021701947.
13 Joseph Epstein, “Is There a Doctor in the White House? Not If You Need an M.D.,” op-ed, Wall Street Journal, 11 Dec. 2020, www.wsj.com/articles/is-there-a-doctor-in-the-white-house-not-if-you-need-an-m-d-11607727380. All quotations in the following paragraph are taken from this piece.
14 Quoted in Dan Barry and Sheera Frenkel, “ ‘Be There. Will be Wild!’: Trump All But Circled the Date,” New York Times, 6 Jan. 2021, updated 8 Jan. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/us/politics/capitol-mob-trump-supporters.html; @realDonaldTrump, “Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging election fraud ‘more than sufficient’ to swing victory to Trump https://t.co/D8KrMHnFdK. A great report by Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” Twitter, 19 Dec. 2020, 1:42 a.m., thetrumparchive.com.
15 Quoted in Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Martin, “After the Speech: What Trump Did as the Capitol Was Attacked,” New York Times, 13 Feb. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/02/13/us/politics/trump-capitol-riot.html; @realDonaldTrump, “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” Twitter, 6 Jan. 2021, 6:01 p.m., thetrumparchive.com.
16 “Stop the Steal” was an alt-right campaign that protested alleged voter fraud in the 2020 election. See Sheera Frenkel, “Beware of This Misinformation from ‘Stop the Steal’ Rallies This Weekend,” New York Times, 13 Nov. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/11/13/technology/beware-of-this-misinformation-from-stop-the-steal-rallies-this-weekend.html.
17 “Transcript of Trump’s Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot,” U.S. News, 13 Jan. 2021, www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot.
18 Quoted in Mike Dorning and Steven T. Dennis, “What to Know About Trump’s Second Impeachment Trial,” Washington Post, 4 Feb. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/business/what-to-know-about-trumps-second-impeachment-trial/2021/02/03/d88f5a08-6669-11eb-bab8-707f8769d785_story.html.
19 @aoc, “What happens after the Capitol attacks?” Instagram, 13 Jan. 2021, www.instagram.com/p/CJ-OkgNAO1N/.
20 Quoted in Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, and Annie Karni, “Pence Reached His Limit With Trump. It Wasn’t Pretty,” New York Times, 12 Jan. 2021, updated 13 Jan. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/01/12/us/politics/mike-pence-trump.html.
21 Monica Hesse, “Capitol Rioters Searched for Nancy Pelosi in a Way That Should Make Every Woman’s Skin Crawl,” Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2021, www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/nancy-pelosi-capitol-insurrection-footage-impeachment-trial/2021/02/10/34bb843c-6bec-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html.
22 “ ‘The Hill We Climb,’ A Transcript. Amanda Gorman’s Poem Recited at Biden’s Inauguration Captures the Times,” Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2021, www.baltimoresun.com/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-0121-gorman-transcript-20210120-5ojxffrfb5cybjabhgiffgiyhi-story.html.
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INDEX
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abortion, illegal, 35, 46
abortion rights, 8, 136, 214, 267, 268, 296
opposition to, 235, 237
weakening of, 319–20
Abrams, Stacey, 339
Abu Ghraib, 294–95
Abzug, Bella, 206
academia. See also higher education
activism and, 136–37
deteriorating conditions in humanities, 319
feminism and, 9–10, 23–24, 265–76
“Academic Men Explain Things to Me,” 333
Acker, Kathy, 282
Action Alerts, Sisterhood Is Powerful Institute, 249
activism, 48–49, 275. See also specific movements
academia and, 136–37
feminist theory and, 275
ACT UP, 269
Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi, 335
Adisa, Gamba, 318. See also Lorde, Audre
Afghanistan, war in, 294
aging, 147–48
Ahmed, Sara, 315
Aidoo, Ama Ata, 210
AIDS, 236–37, 243, 265, 267, 269
Allison, Dorothy, 287
All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave, 237
al Qaeda, 294
Alvarez, Julia, 287
Amatniek, Kathie, 124. See also Sarachild, Kathie
American National Woman’s Party, 347
anatomical sex, vs. gender roles, 140
anatomy, destiny and, 41–47, 231
Anderson, Chester, 117
Anderson, Margaret, 304
androgyny, 181, 199–203, 281
Angelou, Maya, 315, 335
Declaration of Sentiments, 213
anger, 11, 123, 211, 238, 252, 271, 301–2, 306, 326, 337–38
Black anger, 98, 323–24
Lorde and, 215–16, 218, 220
Millett and, 136–37
Plath and, 169
Rich and, 178, 181
Russ and, 197, 198
Solanas and, 125–27
Anthony, Susan B., 60, 290
antifeminist backlash, 25, 61, 150–52, 205, 213–14, 243, 268, 285, 296, 319. See also antifeminist women
antifeminist women, 25, 150–52, 205, 213–14, 243, 285, 319
anti-identity politics, 269–76
“antilesbian hysteria,” 216
anti-porn feminism, 238–44
anti-Semitism, 166, 249–50
antiwar movement, 119–24, 125, 137, 143, 176
Anzaldúa, Gloria, 238, 244–49, 259, 284
Borderlands/La Frontera, 245–48
death of, 318
immigration and, 245–46
Armstrong, Louis, 53
Arquette, Rosanna, 336
Atkinson, Ti-Grace, 126, 142
atomic bomb, fear of, 38
Atwood, Margaret, 153, 159–60, 179, 214, 267, 328
The Handmaid’s Tale, 20–22, 23, 24, 25, 42, 334
Lady Oracle, 160–62
Surfacing, 162–63, 179
The Testaments, 333–34
Auden, W. H., 38, 39, 86, 87
Austen, Jane, 10, 164, 227–28
Northanger Abbey, 174
autotheory, 314
baby boom, 37
backlash, 205, 206, 214, 215, 231, 266–67, 269–70, 285
entertainment and, 286
mass shootings and, 337–38
popular culture and, 286
Baker, Peter, 6
Baldwin, James, 61
Nobody Knows My Name, 100
Notes of a Native Son, 54
Bambara, Toni Cade, 92
Baniszewski, Gertrude, 145
Bantam Books, 158–59
Baraka, Amiri, 51, 93, 129. See also Jones, LeRoi
Barber, Jill, 170
Barbizon Hotel, 35
Barnes, Djuna, 315
Barr, Bill, 341
Barrett, Amy Coney, 341
Barrett Browning, Elizabeth, 164
Barry, Lynda, 298
Barthes, Roland, 314
battered women’s shelters, 8, 138
Beach, Sylvia, 304
Beal, Frances, 130, 263
“Double Jeopardy,” 263
beatniks, 48, 49–50, 117
Beats, 60, 67
Beauvoir, Simone de, 56–58, 79, 106–7, 112, 113, 141, 143, 158, 248
gossip about, 56
marriage and, 56–57
The Second Sex, 91
bebop, 53
Bechdel, Alison, 315
Are You My Mother? 298, 304–8
Bechdel test, 22–23
Dykes to Watch Out For, 300, 308
The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For, 300
Fun Home, 298, 299–300, 301–5, 307–8, 330
lesbianism and, 300–301, 303–4, 305
literary genealogy of, 298–304
The Secret of Superhuman Strength, 308
Bechdel, Bruce, 299, 300, 301–4, 305
Bechdel, Helen, 305–7
Bee, Samantha, 20
Belafonte, Harry, 53
Bellow, Saul, 268, 272
Benedict, John, 218
Benjamin, Medea, 296
Beyoncé, 20, 332–35
Homecoming, 335
Biden, Jill, 349–50
Biden, Joe, 4
election of, 345–53
Biggs, Joanna, “Sylvia Plath at 86,” 171–72
bin Laden, Osama, 294
Birmingham church bombing, 95
birth control, 74–75, 102–3, 105–7, 109, 144, 214
birth control pill, 74–75, 102–3, 105–7, 109
postponement of marriage and, 106
Birth of a Nation, 261, 262
bisexuality, 141, 142
Millett and, 137
Bishop, Elizabeth, 11–12, 275
Black Arts movement, 51
“Black Atlantic,” 326
Black communities, lesbianism and, 216
Black feminism, 100, 262–63, 264
Black Lives Matter movement and, 320–26
“Black is beautiful” motto, 154–55
Black lesbian activism, 66
Black Lives Matter movement, 297, 320–26
Blackness, Harris and, 348
Black Panther Party, 130, 348
Black power, 95, 154–55
Black rights. See also civil rights movement, women’s rights and, 263, 265
Blackstone, William, 267–68
Black studies movement, 348
Black women, lesbianism and, 215–16
Blanchett, Cate, 336
Bland, Sandra, 321
Blitzer, Wolf, 345
Bloom, Allan, 268, 272
Bly, Robert, 120
Boland, Eavan, “Our Future Will Become the Past of Other Women,” 336
Bordo, Susan, Unbearable Weight, 287–88
Bornstein, Kate, Gender Outlaw, 283–84
Bosnian Genocide, 310
Bouvier, Jacqueline, 66–67. See also Kennedy, Jacqueline
Bowers v. Hardwick, 267–68, 271, 297
Bowman, Catherine, 171
The Plath Cabinet, 171
Boylan, Jennifer Finney, She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, 313
Boys Don’t Cry, 284
Braun, Carol Moseley, 260
breast cancer, 220
Brecht, Bertolt, The Threepenny Opera, 96–97
Bright, Susan, 243
Brontë, Charlotte, 10, 164, 227–28
Jane Eyre, 184
Brontë, Emily, 10
Wuthering Heights, 277
Brooke, Edward, 13
Brooks, Gwendolyn, 51–54, 114
Annie Allan, 54
“The Bean-Eaters,” 52
/> “Bronzeville Woman in a Red Hat,” 52–53
“Kitchenette Building,” 54
Maud Martha, 52–53
bropriate, 333
Broumas, Olga, 303
Brown, Helen Gurley, 103–10, 131, 153, 289
marriage and, 107–8
Sex and the Single Girl, 107–9
Brown, Michael, 321
Brown, Rita Mae, 138, 158–59, 316
lesbianism and, 316
Rubyfruit Jungle, 158–59
Brown, Willie, 348
Brownmiller, Susan, 240
Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape, 211
Brown v. Board of Education, 25
Bryant, Anita, 214
Bryant, Dorothy, 221
Buchanan, Patrick, 267, 270
Burger, Warren, 267–68, 270
Burke, Tarana, 336
Burkholder, Jean, 282
Bush, George H. W., 269–70, 293–94
Bush, George W., 293–94
Butler, Judith, 266, 269–76, 284, 315
Gender Trouble, 273–76, 301
Butler, Octavia, 327
Caballos, Jacqueline, 143–44
Campion, Thomas, 90
Camus, Albert, A Happy Death, 299
cancer, 220
Capitol insurrection, 5–6, 350–53
Capitol Police, 351
Carmichael, Stokely, 98
Carruth, Hayden, 176, 177, 178
Carson, Anne, 276–80, 281, 282
Antigonick, 276
The Beauty of the Husband, 280
Eros the Bittersweet, 276
“The Gender of Sound,” 277
Glass, Irony & God, 276–79
“The Glass Essay,” 276, 277–79, 280
“God’s Woman,” 280
“Nudes,” 279–80
Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, 328–29
Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber, 162
Carter, Rosalynn, 213
Cary, Joyce, 165
Castle, Terry, 152
Cather, Willa, 264
Catholicism, 329–32
Caws, Mary Ann, 315
censorship, 61, 244
Chast, Roz, Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant? 298–99
Chemaly, Soraya, 337
Cheney, Dick, 268, 294
Cheney, Lynne, 268
Chesler, Phyllis, 213
Chicago, Judy
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