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Orange Is the New Black, 312
O’Reilly, Jane, “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth,” 206
orgasm, 43, 109–10, 144
otherness, 241, 322–23
“Our Bodies, Ourselves,” 131
Our Bodies, Ourselves, 8
Ozick, Cynthia, 144–45
Paglia, Camille, Sexual Personae, 285
Paley, Grace, 122, 295, 296, 318
Paltrow, Gwyneth, 336
Parker, Charlie, 53
Parks, Rosa, 54
Parmentel, Noel, 67
Partisan Review, 112
patients’ rights, 220
patriarchy, 80–82, 84–85, 88–89, 169, 174, 179, 276, 320, 334, 336
competition and, 208, 218
education and, 311
persistence of, 311
Plath and, 81–83
protesting, 135–72
tools of, 218–19
white feminism and, 218
Paulhan, Jean, 147
Pelosi, Nancy, 297, 341–44, 346, 350, 351, 352
Pence, Mike, 343, 351, 352
performativity, 274, 281
Perry, Imani, Looking for Lorraine, 61
Phillips, Julie, 189
Piercy, Marge, “The Grand Coolie Damn,” 131
“pink-collar” jobs, 46
Piper, Adrian, My Calling, 324
Pitman (Hughes), Dorothy, 205
Plath, Aurelia Schober, 85
Plath, Otto, 80, 81
Plath, Sylvia, 10, 29, 31–40, 41, 45, 47–49, 51, 53–54, 66–68, 104, 138, 144, 280
anger and, 169
“Ariel,” 79, 82–83
Ariel, 76–85, 168, 179
The Bell Jar, 34–35, 52, 164–68, 172
“Daddy,” 80–82, 84, 85, 88, 89, 169, 331
divorce and, 75
domesticity and, 79
Doubletake, 172
“Fever 103°,” 79
the Holocaust and, 81–82, 250
immigration and, 31
“Lady Lazarus,” 79, 169
legacy of, 169–72
Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, 85
marriage and, 37, 75, 76–78, 84
maternal poems of, 77–78
Monroe and, 30–31
Moore and, 39–40
“Morning Song,” 77
“Nick and the Candlestick,” 77–78
patriarchy and, 81–83
Rich and, 86–87
Rosenbergs and, 35, 165–66
“Stings,” 79
suicide of, 75, 76, 165, 169–70
take on the fifties, 164–72
“Three Women: A Play for Three Voices,” 206
Plath, Warren, 79
Playboy, 127
Poe, Edgar Allan, 264
Pogrebin, Letty Cottin, 212–13
“Raising Kids without Sex Roles,” 206
Poitier, Sidney, 54
political correctness, 268
Pollak, Vivian, 40
Pompeo, Mike, 341
popular culture
feminism and, 20–21, 285–86, 334–35
misogyny and, 309–10
porn industry, 240
pornography, 238–39, 240. See also sex wars
Pose, 312, 313
postcolonialism, 310–11
post-feminism, 19, 235–36, 260, 267
post-humanism, 270
postmodernism, 266, 281–84
poststructuralist theory, 237–38, 265–66, 270, 284
poverty, feminization of, 19, 236–37, 265
pregnancy, 315–16
presidential election of 2000, 293–94
presidential election of 2008, 296–97
presidential election of 2016, 1–2, 4, 6–7, 18, 19, 26, 289, 311, 340
presidential election of 2020, 4–6, 345–52
President’s Commission on the Status of Women, American Women, 75–76
primitivism, 60
pro-sex feminism, 242–43
protest movements, 48, 127, 333. See also specific movements
sexism in, 129–30
student movements, 120
Proud Boys, 345, 351, 352
Proust, Marcel, 299, 303
Prouty, Olive Higgins, 84
psychoanalysis, 41–47
punk rock subcultures, 281
Quayle, Dan, 265
queerness, 316
queer resistance, 316
queer studies, 266, 270
queer theory, 266, 269–76, 315
race, 48–49
racial injustice, 98, 320
racial separatism, 215
racism, 129, 216, 256, 257, 262–63, 264, 324, 338
Radical Women’s Group, 124
rage. See anger
Ramparts magazine, 124
Rankine, Claudia, 320–26, 325, 326
Citizen: An American Lyric, 321–23
rape, 44, 117, 127, 128, 129, 153, 155, 158, 164, 167, 230, 238, 240, 308, 310, 329. See also sexual violence
in Birth of a Nation, 262
Cleaver on, 129
in the Congo, 309
date rape, 285
Deutsch on, 44
Dworkin and, 238–40, 243
frequency of, 244
MacKinnon and, 243
pornography and, 22
refugees and, 246
Simone and, 94, 99
slavery and, 257
Rayburn, Sam, 341
Reagan, Ronald, 114, 235, 236–37, 265, 267
administration of, 269–70
Réage, Pauline, The Story of O, 146–47
Redbook, 69
red scare, 38, 56
Redstockings, 131, 211
religious Right, 265
Remembering Our Dead, 284
reproductive rights, 8, 19, 46, 214, 319–20. See also abortion rights; birth control
Republican Party, 235, 260–61, 289
“Resisting Injustice” law seminar, 311
Rich, Adrienne, 120, 138, 173, 188, 199, 208, 218, 221, 238, 266, 284, 296, 301
anger and, 178, 181
“Atlas of the Difficult World,” 254–55
“Blue Ghazals,” 92
on censorship, 61
A Change of World, 86
civil rights movement and, 92
“Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence,” 184
as cultural daughter-in-law, 85–92
death of, 318
The Diamond Cutters, 86
“Diving into the Wreck,” 181–83, 187
Diving into the Wreck, 179, 180–83
domesticity and, 88–91
The Dream of a Common Language, 184–85, 303
“The Floating Poem,” 185–86
the Holocaust and, 250, 252
immigration and, 250–51
Judaism of, 249–56
lesbianism and, 178, 183–84, 186
“Like This Together,” 182
Lorde and, 218–19
marriage and, 85–89, 177–83, 251, 253, 304
“A Marriage in the ’Sixties,” 182
marriage of, 37, 86–87, 180–82, 252–53
maternity and, 87–88
metamorphosis of, 175–87
“From an Old House in America,” 180–81
“Phantasia for Elvira Shatayev,” 203
Plath and, 47, 48, 76, 81, 86–87
poet laureate of seventies feminism, 29–30
“From the Prison House,” 181
“The School Among the Ruins,” 295
“Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,” 87–92, 176–77
Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law, 75
Sontag and, 151–52
“Sources,” 252–53
“Split at the Root,” 251
“The Stranger,” 181
“From a Survivor,” 183
“In Those Years,” 290
“Trying to Talk with a Man,” 181
“Twenty-One Love Poems,” 184–87
“Wait,” 295
“Waking in the Dark,” 180
“When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,” 137, 184
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution, 87
Rich, Arnold, 85–86, 87, 249–50, 255
Riefenstahl, Leni, 151
Rieff, David, 111, 150, 152
Rieff, Philip, 111
Freud: The Mind of a Moralist, 111
“right to life,” 268
Riley, Denise, 315
Ringgold, Faith, French Collection, 325
Riot Grrls, 281
Robertson, Pat, 296
Robeson, Paul, 55, 56
Rodham, Hillary, 12–16. See also Clinton, Hillary Rodham
Roe v. Wade, 8, 136, 205
Roiphe, Katie, 285
Rombauer, Irma S., Joy of Cooking, 31, 33
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 76
Rose Law Firm, 13
Rosen, Ruth, 9, 120, 221
Rosenberg, Julius and Ethel, execution of, 35, 38, 56, 165–66, 269
Rosie the Riveter, 36
Roszak, Theodore, 113–14
Rubin, Gayle, 242
Rubin, Jerry, 128
Rudd, Mark, 130
Rukeyser, Muriel, 207, 210–11
Russ, Joanna, 188, 197–99, 200, 221
anger and, 197, 198
death of, 318
The Female Man, 197–99
“The New Misandry,” 197–98
Sagaris Collective, 212
Salinger, J. D., 165
same-sex unions, 288, 297
Sandberg, Sheryl, 19
Sanders, Bernie, 4
Sanders, Sarah Huckabee, 340
San Francisco, California, 110–18
Sanger, Margaret, 102
Sappho, 157
Sarachild, Kathie, 127, 211
Sarandon, Susan, 309
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 56
Satrapi, Marjane, 298
Saturday Evening Post, 67
#SayHerName movement, 20, 321, 336
Scanlon, Jennifer, 108
Schackman, Al, 100
Schlafly, Phyllis, 25, 205, 213–14, 243
school shootings, 297
Schor, Naomi, 319
Schreiner, Olive, 156
Schroeder, Patricia, 287
Schulman, Sarah, 269, 275
Rat Bohemia, 269
Schumer, Amy, 20
science fiction, 284, 326–29. See also speculative fiction and poetry; specific writers
Scott, Robert Falcon, Voyage of the Discovery, 202
Screw magazine, 206
Seattle Radical Women, 127
Second Congress to Unite Women, 142
Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky, 266, 269–76, 284, 315, 316–17
death of, 318
Epistemology of the Closet, 271–73
“Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl,” 272
Between Men, 270–71
Sedgwick, Hal, 272
SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge) program, City College, 92, 176, 215
Seneca Falls, New York, 3, 213
Seneca Falls Convention (1848), 3
separate spheres, 29–47
separatism, 241–42
Serrano, Andres, 268
Seuss, Diane, “Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid,” 170–71
the seventies, 106, 135–231
arrival of, 132
divorce in the fiction of, 164
feminism after, 18–19, 26
feminism in, 7–12, 179–80
feminist realist fiction in, 152–64
gains from activism of, 236
heterosexuality in fiction of, 153
marriage in fiction of, 153, 164
speculative fiction and poetry in, 173–203
sex. See also sexuality
marriage and, 45–46, 107–8
as social construction, 274
sex discrimination, 109
sex education, 243
sexism, 18–19, 175, 217. See also misogyny; patriarchy
in protest movements, 129–30
racism and, 129, 256, 264, 324
Sexton, Anne, 170–71
“Sylvia’s Death,” 171
sex trade, 19
sexual harassment, 336–37. See also #MeToo movement
online harassment, 309–10
sexuality, 109–11, 257, 316
commercialized, 244, 287
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and, 288
female, in the fifties, 41–47
sexual liberationism, 149, 238
sexual orientation, 269
“sexual parasitism,” 156, 158
sexual revolution, 74–75, 102–10, 131–32
sexual violence, 44, 129, 164, 167, 238–44
sex wars, 238–44
Shange, Ntozake, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf, 210
Shapiro, Miriam
The Womanhouse, 164
Womanhouse exhibition, 8
Sheldon, Alice Bradley, 188–97, 199, 200
divorce and, 188
“The Girl Who Was Plugged In,” 191–92, 198
“Houston, Houston, Do You Read?,” 194–97, 198
lesbianism and, 188
marriage and, 188
“The Screwfly Solution,” 191, 193–94
“The Women Men Don’t See,” 189–91
Sheldon, Raccoona, 193. See also Sheldon, Alice Bradley
Shelley, Mary, 282–83
Sherfrey, Mary Ann, 109
Sherman, Cindy, 281–82
Untitled Film Stills, 281–82
Showalter, Elaine, 138
Shulman, Alix Kates, 153, 158
marriage and, 156
Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, 155–56
sibling rivalry, 217
silence/silencing, 219, 220, 276–77
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 328
Simon, John, 113
Simone, Nina, 61, 76, 92–102, 335
“To Be Young, Gifted and Black,” 54, 101
civil rights movement and, 92–98
“Four Women,” 96, 98–100
“Go Limp,” 96, 97–98
Hansberry and, 95, 101
I Put a Spell on You, 100
Little Girl Blue, 54
marriage and, 94–95, 101
maternity and, 94–95, 101
“Mississippi Goddam,” 95, 98, 100
“Pirate Jenny,” 96–97
on Sesame Street, 101
women’s movement and, 92–93
Simpson, Nicole Brown, 261–62, 263
Simpson, O.J., 259, 261–62, 263
the Sisterhood, 210
sisterhood, ideal of, 204–31
Sisterhood Is Global, 248–49
Sisterhood Is Global Institute, 310
Sittenfeld, Curtis, Rodham, 18
Sitwell, Edith, 30
the sixties, 73–132, 179
beginning of, 73–75
Didion’s portrayal of, 115–16
sexual revolution in, 102–10
Vietnam War and, 119–25
slavery, 257, 259, 326, 327, 328
Sloan, Margaret, 205
Smith, Anna Deavere, 324–25
Fires in the Mirror, 325
Twilight: L. A., 325
Smith, Barbara, 218
Smith, Margaret Chase, 174
Smith College, 68, 84, 85, 104
Snider, Naomi, 311
social constructionism, 106–7, 113, 274
social media, 320
#MeToo movement, 244, 297, 310, 336–37
#SayHerName movement, 321
#YesAllWomen movement, 20, 336
sexual harassment and, 309–10
social welfare programs, 265
Sohmers, Harriet, 110–11, 112
Sojourners for Truth and Justice, 56
Solanas, Valerie, 125–32
anger and, 125–32
masculinity and, 125–
26
SCUM Manifesto, 125–32, 197–98, 313–14
Solnit, Rebecca, 20, 309, 329, 332–35
“Men Explain Things to Me,” 333
Soloway, Jill, 312
Sommers, Christina Hoff, 285
Sontag, Susan, 103, 110–14, 117, 138, 144, 152–53, 174, 184, 276, 294–96, 310, 315
AIDS and Its Metaphors, 275
The Benefactor, 112
death of, 318
“The Double Standard of Aging,” 147–48
evasiveness about feminism and lesbianism, 151–52
“Fascinating Fascism,” 151
as feminist philosopher, 146–52
immigration and, 115
Against Interpretation, 113–14, 152
legacy of, 150–51, 152
lesbianism and, 152
marriage and, 111
Nazism and, 151
New York Times Magazine, 295
“Notes on Camp,” 112, 113
“The Pornographic Imagination,” 146–47
public disavowals of feminism and lesbianism, 113, 151–52
Regarding the Pain of Others, 295
“Regarding the Torture of Others,” 295
Rich and, 151–52
Styles of Radical Will, 146–47
“The Third World of Women,” 148–50, 151
“Trip to Hanoi,” 121–22
“Uncollected Essays,” 150
“What’s Happening in America,” 113–14
“A Woman’s Beauty: Put-Down or Power Source,” 147–48
Southey, Robert, 227–28
Southwell, Thomas, 121
speculative fiction and poetry, 173–203
Spender, Stephen, 39
Spiegelman, Art, 298
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty, 249, 310–11
“Can the Subaltern Speak?,” 249
Sprinkle, Annie, 315
the Squad, 338–39
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 60
Starr, Ken, 288
Stein, Gertrude, 274, 315
Steinem, Gloria, 9, 12, 103–10, 114, 131, 204, 240, 262, 263, 275, 290
“After Black Power, Women’s Liberation,” 131
attacks on, 206–7, 211–12, 213
education of, 104
“If Men Could Menstruate,” 206
“I Was a Playboy Bunny,” 104–5
lesbianism and, 206, 207
marriage and, 104, 106
“The Moral Disarmament of Betty Coed,” 105–7
at Ms., 205–14
“Why We Need a Woman President in 1976,” 206
Stevens, Wallace, 87
“Sunday Morning,” 299
Stone, Sandy, 282
“The Empire Strikes Back,” 282
Stonewall Riots, 131, 219–20, 304
Stotenberg, John, 239
Stroud, Andy, 94–95, 101
Stroud, Lisa, 94–96
Stryker, Susan, 311–17
“My Words to Victor Frankenstein above the Village of Chamounix,” 282–83
Transgender History, 312
student movements, 120
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), 98, 129–30
Sulkowicz, Emma, “Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight),” 310
Swenson, May, 30
Syfer, Judy, “I Want a Wife,” 206