Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution & Still Can

ISBN: 1598536788

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Two pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation's revolutionary insights for todayWhen Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into womens consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for womens civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the womens liberation movement, and writing-powerful, personal, and prophetic-was its beating heart.Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works-many long out-of-print and hard to find-that catalyzed and propelled the womens liberation movement. Ranging from Friedans Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludis Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life-changes too often taken for granted today-but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.