Rolling Our Own: Women as Printers,Publishers and Distributors Eileen Cadman, Gail Chester, Agnes Pivot Minority Press Group 1981 Interview with a number of women form the basis of this book, which provides an insight into a wide range of feminist publishing activities – from producing a local women’s liberation newsletter to working in a large…
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A Passion for Friends: Towards aPhilosophy of Female Affection Janice G. Raymond Beacon Press 1986 The ancient Greek philosophers believed that politics was the business of friends. Aristotle wrote that friendship glued states together and cemented political alliances. However, the citizens of the Greek city-states were exclusively male and these political theories were based upon…
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Women’s Liberation and Literature
Women’s Liberation and Literature Elaine Showalter Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1971 Women’s Liberation and Literature provides students an opportunity to consider for themselves the essential issues raised by past and present movements to liberate women and encourages them to contemplate whether or not there is a feminine consciousness in literature. The subject of women figures significantly…
Lesbian Images Jane Rule Doubleday & Company 1975 Believing that love is best described in a work of art, Jane Rule has chosen for this study of lesbianism the work of brilliantly articulate lesbian writers such as Gertrude Stein, Colette, Vita Sachville West and Willa Cather. Her concern is to discover what images of lesbians…
Women in Soviet Society: Equality,Development, and Social Change Gail Warshofsky Lapidus University of CaliforniaPress 1978 From the earliest years of the Soviet regime, deliberate transformation of the role of women in economic, political, and family life aimed at incorporating female mobilization into a larger strategy of national development. Addressing a neglected problem in the literature…
The Rights and Wrongs of Women Juliet Mitchell, Ann Oakley (eds) Penguin Books 1976 Are the rights of women any more recognized today than they ever were, and are their wrongs any less? The authors of this book – historians, sociologists, educationalists and literary critics – have, from many different political positions, set out to…