
Bird, C. (1968). Born Female.
Abstract: "Thirty million working women in America have
been systematically trained to accept inferior status with humility, to receive
unequal pay for equal work, and to be penalized for having children."
Cole, B. (1986). All American Women: Lines That Divide, Ties
That Bind.
Abstract: "...showing the vast range of attitudes, circumstances,
hopes, fears, and struggles of a cross-section of women in the United States
today."
Dector, M. (1972). The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women's
Liberation.
Abstract: "A scathing criticism of the major tenets of
the Movement itself: housewife, male supremacy, wiving and breeding."
Dixon, M. (1980). The Future of Women.
Abstract: "Marlene Dixon's unique analysis of the superexploitation
of women in modern capitalist society..."
Firestone, S. (1970). Notes From the Second Year: Women's Liberation
Abstract: Major writings of radical feminists.
Fuller, M. (1994). Woman in the Nineteenth Century and Other Writings.
Abstract: "Woman in the Nineteenth Century (1845),
published to tremendous popular success and scurrilous criticism from the
opponents of the nascent women's movement, sold out within a week."
Gray, E. B. (1982). Patriarchy as a Conceptual Trap.
Abstract: "We must try to identify and articulate the politics of
the present [global] predicament. Perhaps to begin with, it can be reconceptualized
in terms more conducive to political analysis."
Greer, G. (1970). The Female Eunuch.
Abstract: "A manual of self-help for women-kind. How to learn to stop
nagging, crabbing and grabbing and make your own life."
Johnson, S. (1989). Wildfire: Igniting the She/volution.
Abstract: "Let's call upon the women who preceded us
and those who will yet live to hold us safe as we love one another in the
midst of unspeakable peril, and command the fierce powers of the earth and
ocean, sky and fire, to be with each brave band of us as we become one more
flame in the wildfire of woman spirit that is blazing through the universe,
reshaping the proud and passionate order of things and reforging the human
soul."
Lerner, G. (1993). The Creation of Feminist Consciousness: From the Middle
Ages to Eighteen-seventy.
Abstract: "A pioneering study of the utmost importance
which allows us to experience the tragedy and the triumph of women who attempted
over the centuries to understand their situation and their history."
Mitchell, J., & Oakely, A. (1986). What is Feminism? A Reexamination.
Abstract: "The eleven contributors to What is Feminism? take
a concept whose meaning we assume we know and reexamine it from every possible
angle, enlarging the meaning of the word "feminism" in new and
original ways."
Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective. (1988). A Feminist Ethic for
Social Science Research.
Abstract: Explores the objectification of wimmin; research
by, for and about wimmin; feminism, language and ideas; and gatekeeping in
employment, publication and research."
Rosser, S. V. (1992). Biology and Feminism: A Dynamic Interaction.
Abstract: "Rosser maintains that the modern scientific method, accepted
as objective and factual, may instead be colored by the values and assumptions
of the traditional male scientist."
Rossi, A. S. (1973). The Feminist Papers: From Adams to de Beauvoir.
Abstract: The essential works of feminism.
Rowbotham, S. (1973). Woman's Consciousness, Man's World.
Abstract: "It seems to me that the cultural and economic liberation
of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people
no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions
of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held
back by the subordination of sex, race or class."
Tripp, M. (1974). Woman in the Year 2000.
Abstract: "...twenty-six writers and thinkers project what they believe
will happen for women in the beginning of the 21st century."
Wollstonecraft, M. (1792). Vindication of the Right of Woman.
Abstract: "In an age of ferment, following the American
and French Revolutions, Mary Wollstonecraft took prevailing egalitarian principles
and dared to apply them to women."
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