Holbrook, David, 41
Holiday, Billie, 54
Holladay, Hilary, 151–52, 177, 184
the Holocaust, 81, 82, 250, 252, 257, 295
the homemaker, demythologization of, 60–61
homonormativity, 316
homophobia, 217, 254, 269, 271, 273, 296, 319
in the black community, 215–16
Christian Right and, 267
homosexuality, 144, 214, 236–37, 241, 267, 271–72. See also homophobia; lesbianism
criminalization of, 267–68
Freudianism and, 159
homosociality and, 271
marriage equality and, 265
persecution of, 61
homosociality, 270–71
hooks, bell, 285
Ain’t I a Woman, 263
Hoover, J. Edgar, 212
Horney, Karen, 44
House Un-American Activities Committee, 38
housework, 319
Howard University, 348
Howe, Irving, 113, 144
HuffPost, 20
Hughes, Frieda, 76, 77, 79, 81, 171
Hughes, Langston, 62
Hughes, Nicholas, 77, 171
Hughes, Olwyn, 171
Hughes, Sylvia Plath. See Plath, Sylvia
Hughes, Ted, 32, 33, 35, 39–40, 76–80, 81, 169–70, 171
Birthday Letters, 170
“The Dogs Are Eating Your Mother,” 170
humanities
deteriorating conditions in academia, 319
feminism and, 10
Hurst, Fanny, Imitation of Life, 154
Hurston, Zora Neale, 11, 209–11, 321, 324
“How It Feels to Be Colored Me,” 321–22
Hussein, Saddam, 294
identity
denaturalization of, 273–74
nonbinary or transgendered, 212–13, 266
identity categories, deconstruction of, 273–74
identity politics, 221, 235–64, 284
immigration, 244–49, 250
Anzaldúa and, 245–46
Biden (Jill) and, 349
di Prima and, 49, 63–64
Harris and, 347
Kingston and, 221–23
Plath and, 31
Rich and, 250–51
Sontag and, 115
incest, 238
Indiana University, 7–8, 9–10, 170
infanticide, 256–57
infertility treatments, 320
Inslee, Jay, 5–6
International Communist Youth Festivals, 211–12
interracial violence, 129, 325
intersectionality, 221, 256–64
in vitro fertilization, 320
Iraq war, 294
Irigaray, Luce, 248
Jackson, George, 254
Jackson, Michael, 285–86
Jarrell, Randall, 86, 87
jazz, 53
Jeannette Rankin Brigade, 123–24
Jemisin, N. K., 320, 326–29, 332
The Fifth Season, 327–28
Jenner, Caitlyn, 312, 314
Jim Crow, 58
Johnson, Lady Bird, 213
Johnson, Lyndon, 119
Johnson, Virginia, 103, 130
Human Sexual Response, 109, 110
Johnston, Jill, 142, 144
Jones, LeRoi, 50, 51, 92. See also Baraka, Amiri
“Babylon Revisited,” 129
Jong, Erica, 128, 138, 153, 155–58, 170–71, 213
“Alcestis on the Poetry Circuit,” 171
Fear of Flying, 156–58
Jordan, Barbara, 8
Jordan, June, 92, 210
Joyce, James
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, 299
Ulysses, 299, 303–4
Judaism, 249–55, 271
Jung, Carl, 181
Kael, Pauline, 286
Kavanaugh, Brett, 288, 337
Keir, Sophie, 143
Kennedy, Flo, 205
Kennedy, Florynce, 126
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 66–67, 73–74, 75, 76
Kennedy, John F., 73–74, 76, 174
Kennedy, Robert, 75, 122, 174
Kent State killings, 137
Key, Keegan-Michael, 323
Kimball, Roger, 272
King, Billie Jean, 213
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match, 8
King, Coretta Scott, 25, 213
King, Martin Luther Jr., 54, 213
arrest in Birmingham, 95
assassination of, 92, 122, 174
death of, 13
“I Have a Dream” speech, 75
march on Washington, 75
King, Mary, 128–29
King, Rodney, 265
Kingsolver, Barbara, 328
Kingston, Maxine Hong, 204, 220–27, 295, 296
immigration and, 221–23
The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts, 221–27
Kinsey, Alfred, 41, 44–45, 46, 47
Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, 45–46
Klobuchar, Amy, 4
Koedt, Anne, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm,” 130
Koestenbaum, Wayne, 315
Kolbert, Elizabeth, The Sixth Extinction, 328–29
Korean War, protests against, 56
Kowalski, Stanley, 131
Kramer, Hilton, 229
Kramer, Michael J., 118
Kraus, Chris, 282
I Love Dick, 282
Kristeva, Julia, 248
Kroeber, Alfred, 199
Kroeber, Theodora, 199
Ku Klux Klan, 25, 261, 262
Kushner, Tony, Angels in America, 269
Lacan, Jacques, 231
Lacour, Claudia Brodsky, 261
The Ladder, 61
Ladies’ Home Journal, 69, 75, 80, 127, 130
Lahiri, Jhumpa, 287
Larkin, Philip, 102
“lavender menace,” 142, 207
Lavender Menace Zap, 142
Lawrence, D. H., 11, 140, 144, 157
Lady Chatterley’s Lover, 102
Le Guin, Charles, 199
Le Guin, Ursula K., 188, 199–203, 221, 295, 296, 329
death of, 318
Left Hand of Darkness, 200–201
“Sur,” 201–3
The Wind’s Twelve Quarters, 201
Lerman, Eleanor, 208
Lesbian Avengers, 275
“lesbian-baiting,” 216, 319
lesbian history, 303, 304
lesbianism, 142–43, 152, 158–59, 178, 206, 214, 316
Bechdel and, 300–301, 303–4, 305
Black women and, 215–16
Brown (Rita Mae) and, 316
Chicana women and, 246–48
Dworkin and, 239
Lorde and, 62–66
marriage equality and, 265
Millett and, 137, 141–42
pro-sex feminism and, 242–43
Rich and, 178, 183–84, 186
sanitized, 242–43
Sheldon and, 188
Sontag and, 113, 151–52
Steinem and, 206, 207
Lesbian Nation, 207
lesbian organizations, 137, 142, 207, 275
lesbian rights, 214, 219–20. See also gay liberation movement
lesbians
closeted, 62, 113, 141
in Dykes to Watch Out For, 22
Freudianism and, 159
pressured to marry, 61
troubled category of, 273–74
lesbian separatism, 8, 198, 241–42, 272, 316
transphobia and, 282
Lesbian Sex Mafia, 243
lesbian sexuality, 130, 141–42, 159
lesbian studies, 241–42
Lessing, Doris, 142–43, 158
The Golden Notebook, 143
Leventhal, Mel, 208
Levertov, Denise, 11, 12, 120–23, 275
“Life at War,” 120–21
Lewinsky, Monica, 288–89
Libre, 150
Life, 67, 69
Ligon, Glenn
, 321
Likens, Sylvia, 145
Limbaugh, Rush, 289, 343
Lister, Anne, 312
Little Review, 304
la Llorona, 247
Lockwood, Greg, 329–32
Lockwood, Patricia, 320, 329–32
Priestdaddy, 329–32
“Rape Joke,” 310, 329
London Review of Books, 152, 171–72
looks, overemphasis on, 287–88
“looks-ism,” 192
Lorde, Audre, 29, 45, 62–66, 67, 92, 128, 204, 208, 247, 249, 264, 276, 335
anger and, 215–16, 218, 220
The Cancer Journals, 220
Coal, 218
Collected Poems, 63
death of, 318
dismantling the master’s house, 215–20
“In the Hands of Afrekete,” 217
homophobia and, 215–16
From a Land Where Other People Live, 216
lesbianism and, 62–66, 128
“Love Poem,” 216
marriage and, 64, 215
“An Open Letter to Mary Daly, 217
“Poetry Is Not a Luxury,” 219
“Power,” 218
“Scratching the Surface,” 216
in Sinister Wisdom, 220
Sister Outsider, 215
speech at National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 219–20
“The Transformation of Silence into Language and Action,” 219
“Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power,” 219
Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 62–63, 64, 65
Los Angeles riots, 265
L’Ouverture, Toussaint, 55
Lowell, Robert, 29, 38, 120
Lucas, Victoria, 165. See also Plath, Sylvia
Lundberg, Ferdinand, 68
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, 42–43, 68
lynching, 295
Lyne, Adrian, 286
MacKinnon, Catharine, 243
Sexual Harassment of Working Women, 243
Maddow, Rachel, 333
Mademoiselle, 66, 67, 69
Madonna, 281–82, 285–86
The Madwoman in the Attic (Gilbert and Gubar), 4, 7, 164
publication of, 228
writing of, 227–30
“The Madwoman in the Attic” course, 10–12
Mailer, Norman, 139, 140, 143–45, 153
Advertisements for Myself, 144–45
The Prisoner of Sex, 144
“The White Negro,” 60
Malinali (La Malinche), 247
Manet, Édouard, 270–71
Manson, Charles, 128, 144
mansplaining, 333
manspreading, 333
Mapplethorpe, Robert, 268
marriage, 197. See also domesticity
Beauvoir and, 56–57
birth control pill and, 106
Brown and, 107–8
Clinton and, 288
Defense of Marriage Act, 288
di Prima and, 50
Dworkin and, 239
Ensler and, 308
in fiction of the seventies, 153, 164
in the fifties, 36–40, 41, 179–80
fifties ideology of, 36–40
Hansberry and, 56
interracial, 56, 208, 260–61
Lorde and, 64, 215
Millett and, 143
Moore and, 41
Morrison and, 154
obstructed aspirations and, 18
Pelosi and, 342
Plath and, 32, 37, 75, 76–78, 84
postponement of, 106, 107–8, 286–87
Rich and, 177–83, 251, 253, 304
sex and, 45–46, 107–8
Sheldon and, 188
Shulman and, 156
Simone and, 94–95, 101
Sontag and, 111
Steinem and, 104, 106
Walker and, 208
marriage equality, 265. See also same-sex unions
Martin, Trayvon, 321
masculinism, 267
masculinity, 59, 125–26, 148–49, 189, 237, 240, 264, 282, 302, 316
authority and, 4 (see also patriarchy)
dystopian, 194–97
endangered, 337–38
impersonating, 197–98
“masculinity complex,” 44
militarism and, 124
performing, 193
toxic, 240
“masculinity complex,” 44
masculinity studies, 270
masochism/sadism, 43, 242–43
mass shootings, 337–38
Masters, William, 103, 130
Human Sexual Response, 109, 110
masturbation, 110
maternal death, 319
maternity, 316
in the fifties, 40, 41
Pelosi and, 342
Plath and, 77–78
Rich and, 87–88
Simone and, 94–95, 101
May, Elaine Tyler, 37
McCall’s, 69
McCarthy, Joe, 25, 269
McCarthy, Mary, 121–22
McCarthy hearings, 38
McCarthyism, 38, 68, 166
McConnell, Mitch, 25, 341, 345
McGinley, Phyllis, 30, 36–37, 40, 41, 52
McGowan, Rose, 336
McKay, Nellie Y., 259
Mead, Margaret, 213
medical care, substandard, 319
men, feminine dependence on, 155–56
Merkel, Angela, 6
mestiza consciousness, 244–49, 259, 284
metamorphosis, 175–76
#MeToo movement, 244, 297, 310, 336–37
Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, 241, 282
Middlebrook, Diane, 319
middle-class marriage, in fifties, 36–40
Milano, Alyssa, 336
Miller, Henry, 139, 140, 144, 153, 156
Tropic of Capricorn, 102
Miller, Nancy K., My Brilliant Friends, 318–19
Millett, Kate, 126, 135–46, 148, 153, 174, 206, 213, 305, 310, 325
anger and, 136–37
The Basement, 145, 146, 147, 168
bisexuality and, 137
death of, 318
Flying, 140–41, 142
lesbianism and, 137, 141–42
marriage and, 143
Sexual Politics, 81, 135, 136–37, 141–43, 144, 145–46, 168, 240
Mills, Florence, 56
misandry, 197–99
misogyny, 4, 18–19, 20–21, 175, 221, 330, 331, 349–50
Black power movement and, 128–29
childbearing and, 241
legitimization of, 26
mass shootings and, 337
Millett on, 139–40
Nazism and, 151
patriarchy and, 334
popular culture and, 309–10
Trump administration and, 20, 297, 340
women’s liberation movement and, 240
Miss Piggy, 20
Mock, Janet, Redefining Realness, 312–13
modernism, 41
Modern Language Association, 228, 272
“mommy track,” 286–87
Monk, Thelonious, 53
Monnier, Adrienne, 304
Monroe, Marilyn, 30–31, 74, 75, 76, 281–82
Montgomery, Selena, 339–40. See also Abrams, Stacey
Montgomery bus boycott, 54, 60
Moore, Marianne, 38–40, 41, 47
marriage and, 41
Moraga, Cherríe, 242–43
Moral Majority, 266, 281, 296
Morgan, Marabel, 214
Morgan, Robin, 126, 184–85, 240, 310
“Arraignment,” 169–70
“Goodbye to All That,” 131–32
Monster, 169–70
Sisterhood Is Global, 248–49
Sisterhood Is Powerful, 137
morning-after pill, 320
Morrison, Harold, 154
Morrison, Toni, 96, 138, 152–55, 156, 236, 238, 264, 265, 335
Beloved, 256, 257–59, 263, 264
&n
bsp; Birth of a Nation’hood, 259, 261
The Black Book, 256–57
The Bluest Eye, 52, 153–55, 257
death of, 319
divorce and, 154
intersectionality of, 256–64
marriage and, 154
Paradise, 324
Playing in the Dark, 263–64
Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Power, 259, 260–61
“Recitatif,” 324
on Simone, 93
Sula, 210, 256
Moser, Benjamin, 111, 151
motherhood, 87, 184, 342
mothering, 305–6
Ms. magazine, 8, 205–14, 216, 249
multiculturalism, 268
feminist, 248–49
Munro, Alice, 315
Myles, Eileen, 282, 315
NAACP, 58
National Endowment for the Humanities, 268
National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, 219–20
National Organization for Women (NOW), 109, 126, 142, 144
National Review, 67
National Women’s Conference in Houston, 213
National Women’s Political Caucus, 9, 206
National Women’s Studies Association, 9
Nazis, 81–82
Nazism, 151, 250. See also the Holocaust
Neel, Alice, 135, 141
Nelson, Maggie, 311–17
The Argonauts, 314–16, 321
Nemiroff, Robert, 56, 61
New Left, 119, 120, 130, 131
new millennium, 293–98
New Right, 214
Newsweek, 69, 206, 286, 337
New Woman, 306
New York City, 185, 187
New Yorker, 294
New York Radical Feminists, 127
New York Review of Books, 151
New York Times, 69, 145, 210, 229, 289, 313, 332, 334, 337–38, 346
Her Words biweekly newsletter, 332
Overlooked No More, 332
New York Times Book Review, 179
New York Times Magazine, 235
9/11, terrorist attacks of, 294, 295–96
Nineteenth Amendment, 3, 346, 347
nineties, 265–90
Nixon, Richard M., 122, 174
nonbinary people, 266, 312–13
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 11–12, 60
Notes from the First Year, 130
Notes from the Second Year, 131
nuclear family, in fiction of the seventies, 153
Nunez, Sigrid, Sempre Susan, 152
Nussbaum, Martha, 310–11
The Monarchy of Fear: A Philosopher Looks at Our Political Crisis, 311
Oates, Joyce Carol, 145–46
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?,” 146
Oath Keepers, 351, 352
Obama, Barack, 17, 19, 296–97, 323, 338
Obama, Michelle, 19, 296–97, 323, 340, 349
obscenity laws, 102
Ocasio-Cortez, Alexandria, 338–39, 346, 352
off our backs, 243
Olds, Sharon, 242–43
Oliver, Mary, 328
Olsen, Tillie, 221
“Silences,” 219
Silences, 219
One Billion rising, 309, 310
online harassment, 309–10
On Our Backs, 243
Operation Rescue, 268
Opie, Catherine, 315
Still Mad Page 44