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I / the OPPRESSED MAJORITY: the WAY IT IS CONTENTS INTRODUCTION: THE WOMEN'S REVOLUTION Robin Morgan xiii "YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY": HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES Connie Brown and Jane Seitz 3 i / THE OPPRESSED MAJORITY: THE WAY IT IS KNOW YOUR ENEMY: A SAMPLING OF SEXIST QUOTES 31 THE 51 PERCENT MINORITY GROUP: A STATISTICAL ESSAY Joreen 37 THE DYNAMICS OF MARRIAGE AND MOTHERHOOD Beverly Jones 46 WOMEN IN THE PROFESSIONS: FIVE SHORT PERSONAL TESTIMONIES WOMEN IN MEDICINE Miriam Gilbert, R.N. 62 "A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME": WOMEN IN PUBLISHING Laura Furman 66 WOMEN AND TELEVISION Sheila Smith Hobson 70 WOMEN IN THE MILITARY Lt. Susan Schnall 76 THE TRIALS OF LOIS LANE: WOMEN IN JOURNALISM Lindsy Van Gelder 81 THE SECRETARIAL PROLETARIAT Judith Ann 86 THE HALLS OF ACADEME Women's Caucus, Political Science Department, University of Chicago 101 yiii contents WOMEN AND THE WELFARE SYSTEM Carol Classman 102 Two JOBS: WOMEN WHO WORK IN FACTORIES Jean Tepperman 115 WOMEN AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH Dr. Mary Daly 124 DOES THE LAW OPPRESS WOMEN? Diane B. Schulder 139 ii / THE INVISIBLE WOMAN: PSYCHOLOGICAL AND SEXUAL REPRESSION BARBAROUS RITUALS 161 IT HURTS TO BE ALIVE AND OBSOLETE: THE AGEING WOMAN Zoe Moss 170 MEDIA IMAGES 1: MADISON AVENUE BRAINWASHING—THE FACTS Alice Embree 175 MEDIA IMAGES 2: BODY ODOR AND SOCIAL ORDER Florika 191 THE POLITICS OF ORGASM Susan Lydon 197 "KINDER KÜCHE, KIRCHE" AS SCIENTIFIC LAW: PSYCHOLOGY CONSTRUCTS THE FEMALE Dr. Naomi Weisstein 205 A THEORY ON FEMALE SEXUALITY Mary Jane Sberfey, M.D. 220 A PSYCHIATRIST'S VIEW: IMAGES OF WOMAN— PAST AND PRESENT, OVERT AND OBSCURED Natalie Shainess, M.D. 230 UNFINISHED BUSINESS: BIRTH CONTROL AND WOMEN'S LIBERATION Lucinda Cisler 245 Contents Ix THE HOOKER Ellen Strong 289 THE LEAST OF THESE: THE MINORITY WHOSE SCREAMS HAVEN'T YET BEEN HEARD Gene Damon 297 NOTES OF A RADICAL LESBIAN Martha Shelley 306 SEXUAL POLITICS (IN LITERATURE) Kate Millett 311 iii / GO TELL IT IN THE VALLEY: CHANGING CONSCIOUSNESS RESISTANCES TO CONSCIOUSNESS Irene Peslikis 337 WOMEN IN THE BLACK LIBERATION MOVEMENT: THREE VIEWS DOUBLE JEOPARDY: TO BE BLACK AND FEMALE Frances M. Beal 340 FOR SADIE AND MAUDE Eleanor Holmes Norton 353 STATEMENT ON BIRTH CONTROL Black Women's Liberation Group, Mount Vernon, New York 360 HIGH SCHOOL WOMEN: THREE VIEWS THE SUBURBAN SCENE Connie Dvorkin 362 ON DE-SEGREGATING STUYVESANT HIGH Alice de Rivera 366 EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARIES OF ALL OPPRESSED WOMEN Women's Collective of the New York High School Students' Union ill COLONIZED WOMEN: THE CHICANA AN INTRODUCTION Elizabeth Sutherland 376 x contents THE MEXICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN Enriqueta Longauex y Vasquez 379 EXPERIMENT IN FREEDOM: WOMEN OF CHINA Charlotte Bonny Cohen 385 iv / UP FROM SEXISM: EMERGING IDEOLOGIES THE GRAND COOLIE DAMN Marge Piercy 421 INSTITUTIONALIZED OPPRESSION VS. THE FEMALE Florynce Kennedy 438 THE POLITICS OF HOUSEWORK Pat Mainardi 447 SOCIAL BASES FOR SEXUAL EQUALITY: A COMPARATIVE VIEW Karen Sacks 455 SELF-DEFENSE FOR WOMEN Susan Pascale, Rachel Moon, Leslie B. Tanner 469 FEMALE LIBERATION AS THE BASIS FOR SOCIAL REVOLUTION Roxanne Dunbar 477 v / THE HAND THAT CRADLES THE ROCK: PROTEST AND REVOLT POETRY AS PROTEST FOR WITCHES Susan Sutbeim 495 ELEGY FOR JAYNE MANSFIELD, JULY 1967 Karen Lindsey 496 A CHANT FOR MY SISTERS Marilyn Lowen Fletcher 497 MUST I MARRY Lynn Strongin 498 Contents zi THE PLAYGROUND (A PROSE POEM) Leah Fritz 499 SHE Maria Ann Britton 500 DANCING THE SHOUT TO THE TRUE GOSPEL or THE SONG MOVEMENT SISTERS DON'T WANT ME TO SING Rita Mae Brown 501 POEM Jayne West 501 SONG OF THE FUCKED DUCK Marge Piercy 502 ANONYMOUS POEM a seven-year-old woman 504 TERROR Martha Shelley 505 POEM Janet Russo 506 GOING THROUGH CHANGES Jean Tepperman 506 THE JAILOR Sylvia Platb 510 HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS NOW (NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN) BILL OF RIGHTS 512 EXCERPTS FROM THE SCUM (SOCIETY FOR CUTTING UP MEN) MANIFESTO Valerie Solanis 514 PRINCIPLES New York Radical Women 520 No MORE MISS AMERICA! TEN POINTS OF PROTEST 521 LETTER TO OUR SISTERS IN SOCIAL WORK WAR (Women of the American Revolution) 524 zii contents How To NAME BABY Media Women 526 LILITH'S MANIFESTO Women's Majority Union, Seattle 527 WE DID IT Women Against Daddy Warbucks 530 STATEMENT ON THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO SIT-IN 531 AN EXEGESIS ON WOMEN'S LIBERATION Women's Caucus within the Youth International Party 532 REDSTOCKINGS MANIFESTO 533 THE FEMINISTS VS. THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE 536 WITCH DOCUMENTS 538 SONGS 554 VERBAL KARATE: STATISTICAL AND APHORISTIC AMMUNITION 557 vi / APPENDIX GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY 567 PAPERS AND PERIODICALS OF THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT 580 LIST OF "CONSCIOUSNESS-RAISING" FILMS 582 DROP DEAD LIST OF BOOKS TO WATCH OUT FOR 583 ABORTION COUNSELING INFORMATION 584 WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT CONTACTS IN SOME MAJOR U.S. (AND CANADIAN) CITIES 589 NOTES ON SISTER CONTRIBUTORS 594.
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