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Woman: an issue - Softcover

 
9780316211703: Woman: an issue
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0316211702 ISBN 13: 9780316211703
Publisher: Little, Brown, 1972

Synopsis

Originally published as a special double issue of the distinguished The Massachusetts Review, the stories, poems, essays, and pictures of this book offer a brilliantly diverse exploration into just what it means to be a woman and a human being, into what women are. Includes contributions from: Anais Nin, Bella Abzug and Cynthis Edgar, Anne Halley, Mary Heath, Joan Goulianos, and thirty-one other contributors. Topics cover women in politics, black women in the American slave system, marriages of famous people, women in avant-garde theater, and other challenging contributions.

Nonfiction

Women and Politics: The Struggle for Representation by Bella S. Abzug and Cynthia Edgar
Notes on Feminism by Anais Nin
Organizing for Freedom by Penina Migdal Glazer
Sex-Roles and Sexual Attitudes in Sweden: The New Phase by Sondra R. Herman
Reflections on the Black Woman's Role in the Community of Slaves by Angela Davis
Affirmation of Resistance: A Responce to Angela Davis by Johnetta Cole
The Role of Women in Liberation Struggles by Amy Jacques Garvey
Mary Beard's "Woman as Force in History": A Critique by Berenice A. Carroll
Sojourner Truth Calls Upon the President: an 1864 Letter by Sojourner Truth
Heroines by Elizabeth T. Pochoda
A Mirror for Men: Stereotypes of Women in Literature by Cynthia Griffin Wolff
Women, Energy, and Middlemarch by Lee R. Edwards
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps: A Study in Female Rebellion by Christine Stansell
Women and the Avant-Garde Theater: Interviews with Rochelle Owens, Crystal Field, Rosalyn Drexler by Joan Goulianos
Norman Mailer: A Prisoner of Sex by Annette Barnes
Elizabeth Janeway and Germaine Greer by Arlyn Diamond
Marriages: Zelda & Scott, Eleanor & Franklin by Mary Heath
"So You Mayn't Ever Call Me Anything But Carrington" by J.J. Wilson

Fiction
My Mother and Politics by Mary Doyle Curran
Confessionso Mother Goose by Anne Halley

Poetry
Turning; Walking Through Walls by Lucille Clifton
Three X Three by Sonia Sanchez
Life's Work by Maxine Kumin
The Passion of Lizzie Borden by Ruth Whitman
Frayings by Priscilla Gibson
In the Season When the Earth by Giuliana Mutti
Miss America by Lillian S. Robinson
Lana Would by Nancy Raine
Female Liberation; Birth by Sue Mullins
Complaint by Margaret Shook
Blood Signs by Giuliana Mutti
Deprivation by Nancy Rice
Note from Bellevue by Carol Hebald
Depression; Calling the Babysitter by Ellen Dibble

Art
"Am I Not a Woman and a Sister"—Eight Drawings by Lisa Unger Baskin
Ten Photographs by Tina Modotti
A Portrait Photograph of Tina Modotti by Edward Weston
Art's Looking Glass: Fifeteen (sic) Self-Portraits by Women by Marietta Tintoretta, et al.

Cover Art
Woman in Purdah by Dorothea Lange

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Publication date
1972
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0316211702
ISBN 13 
9780316211703
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
299
Editor
Lee R. Edwards, Mary Heath, Lisa Baskin