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Woman in sexist society; studies in power and powerlessness.
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This volume is an anthology of articles written by some 30 female scholars and writers. Each woman draws upon mastery of her discipline and on a commitment to eliminating the social and personal co...
This volume is an anthology of articles written by some 30 female scholars and writers. Each woman draws upon mastery of her discipline and on a commitment to eliminating the social and personal costs of sexism; and also the arguments from current social customs and "Nature" that the editors feel lock both men and women into life-denying stereotypes of masculinity and femininity.
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- Edited by Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran
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- English
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- New York : Basic Books, [1971]
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- xxv, 515 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780451623256, 0451623258, 0465091997, 9780465091997
- OCLC
- ocm00147017, ocn502207249
- Includes bibliographies.
- Introduction : Vivian Gornick and Barbara K. Moran -- pt. 1: Beauty, love and marriage : the myth and the reality. "Pretty" / Alta -- Two plays on love and marriage / Myrna Lamb -- Prostitution : a quartet for female voices / Kate Millett -- Woman as outsider / Vivian Gornick -- The paradox of the happy marriage / Jessie Bernard -- Depression in middle-aged women / Pauline B. Bart -- The mask of beauty / Una Stannard -- pt. 2: Woman is made, not born. Psychology constructs the female / Naomi Weisstein -- Ambivalence : the socialization of women / Judith M. Bardwick and Elizabeth Douvan -- Natural law language and women / Christine Pierce -- Being and doing : a cross-cultural examination of the socialization of males and females / Nancy Chodorow -- Organs and orgasms / Alix Shulman -- The image of woman in advertising / Lucy Komisar -- The image of woman in textbooks / Marjorie B. U'ren -- Seduced and abandoned in the new world : the image of woman in American fiction / Wendy Martin -- Our sexist language / Ethel Strainchamps -- Patient and patriarch : women in the psychotherapeutic relationship / Phyllis Chesler -- Women in other cultures / Ruby R. Leavitt -- pt. 3: Woman at work. Women and creativity : the demise of the dancing dog / Cynthia Ozick -- Women writers and the double standard / Elaine Showalter -- Why are there no great women artists? / Linda Nochlin -- Working in "a man's world" : the woman executive / Roslyn S. Willett -- Women and voluntarism / Doris B. Gold -- The compassion trap / Margaret Adams -- pt. 4: Social issues and feminism : education, homosexuality, race, and radicalism. Our failures only marry : Bryn Mawr and the failure of feminism / Liz SchneiderIs women's liberation a lesbian plot? / Sidney Abbott and Barbara Love -- "Thy neighbor's wife, thy neighbor's servants" : women's liberation and black civil rights / Catharine Stimpson -- Consumerism and women : a redstocking sister -- On American feminism / Shulamith Firestone