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Gender & Gender Politics
Kate Millett and Her Critics
Phyllis Jacobson
[This article appeared in the old series of New Politics, Fall 1970.]
Sexual Politics by Kate Millet
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, N.Y. 1970, 393 pp. $7.95
Kate Millet's Sexual Politics has elicited awe, praise and sober criticism, but proof of its effectiveness is the appearance of a variety of articles and reviews marked by utterly unselfconscious vulgarity, philistinism and venomous hostility.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
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Special Section on Women and Work
Edited by Gertrude Ezorsky
Articles in the SymposiumThe Labor Origins of the Next Women's Movement, Dorothy Sue Cobble
Migration, Domestic Work, and Repression, Julia Wrigley
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Both?, Lynn Chancer
Women, Family, Welfare and Work, Betty Reid Mandell
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Poverty and the American Dream
Title: American Dream: Three Women, Ten Kids, and a Nation's Drive to End WelfareBy: Jason DeParle
New York: Viking, 2004, 422 pp. $25.95
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Reviewed by Betty Reid Mandell
Summer 2005
I have seen the welfare system first hand as a volunteer outreach worker at a Boston welfare office (Department of Transitional Assistance). The other day I walked into the office to see a distraught woman sobbing disconsolately on the floor. She had unknowingly parked in the parking lot of the Burger King next door. She moaned, "I begged him not to tow me. I told him that I am homeless and don't have any money to feed my children, but he didn't listen.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Relevant, Irrelevant, or Both?
Title: The Socialist Feminist Project: A Contemporary Reader in Theory and PoliticsBy: Edited by Nancy Holmstrom
New York: Monthly Review Press, 2002, 400 pp. $26
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Reviewed by Lynn Chancer
Summer 2005
While I was in the process of reviewing this volume, I took it to a party in Brooklyn attended by varied-and-sundry aging baby boomers, early 40s through 50-something types who are generally progressive, educated and (in tripartite terms of classification) middle-to-upper-middle class.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
Migration, Domestic Work, and Repression
Title: Global Women: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New EconomyBy: Edited by Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Russell Hochschild
New York: Holt, 2002, 336 pp. $15
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Reviewed by Julia Wrigley
Summer 2005
In their edited collection, Global Woman: Nannies, Maids, and Sex Workers in the New Economy, Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild write that Third World women are on the move as never before, filling jobs in the "homes, nurseries, and brothels of the First World" (2002). The rushed and materialistic societies of the First World leave working parents little time to look after their children or their own parents. Women migrating from poor countries fill the gap.
| Summer 2005 | Vol:X-3 | Whole #: 39 |
The Labor Origins of the Next Women's Movement
Dorothy Sue Cobble
| Dorothy Sue Cobble's book, The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America (Princeton University Press, 2002), retrieves the forgotten feminism of the previous generation of working women. Their reform agenda -- an end to unfair sex discrimination, just compensation for their waged labor, and the rights of their families and communities -- launched a revolution in employment practices that has carried over into the present. |
| Summer 2007 | Vol:XI-2 | Whole #: 42 |
Hyde Amendment: The opening wedge to abolish abortion
Marlene Fried
Advocates on both sides of the abortion issue have made sure that the anniversary of Roe v. Wade on January 22 is highly visible. Supporters and opponents use the date to rally their forces. In contrast, September 30, the date in 1976 that federal Medicaid funding for abortion was banned by the Hyde Amendment, has not gained the same attention.
| Winter 2010 | Vol:XII-4 | Whole #: 48 |
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Special Section: Women's Issues
Articles in the SymposiumGwendloyn Mink, "Women's Work, Mother's Poverty"
Randy Albelda & Betty Reid Mandell, "Paid Family and Medical Leave"
Linda Nicholson, "Feminism in 'Waves': Useful Metaphor or Not?"
Victoria Law, "Nor Meekly Serve Her Time"
Amy Littlefield's review of Janet Afary, Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Betty Reid Mandell, "Still Fighting: Interview with Judi Chamberlin"
| Winter 2010 | Vol:XII-4 | Whole #: 48 |
Birds and Cages: Reading Sex and the State in Janet Afary's Sexual Politics in Modern Iran
Title: Sexual Politics in Modern IranBy: Janet Afary
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Reviewed by Amy Littlefield
Winter 2010
Janet Afary is hopeful about the future of women's rights in Iran. And she identifies many reasons to be so, from secret individual acts of resistance by women against husbands, fathers, and dictators to collective feminist struggle and today's One Million Signatures Campaign for equal rights. But Sexual Politics in Modern Iran also reveals the full force of the cultural and political systems that the Iranian movement for gender equality confronts.
| Winter 2010 | Vol:XII-4 | Whole #: 48 |
Still fighting: Interview with Judi Chamberlin
Betty Reid Mandell
Judi Chamberlin is one of the founders of the mental patients' liberation movement. In 1988, she wrote On Our Own, a book about her own experience with depression 43 years ago, when she was hospitalized against her will. That book became a kind of bible for the mental patients' liberation movement. Now the 64-year-old activist is dying of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, an incurable lung disorder. Late last year she stopped hospitalizations and instead opted for home hospice care.