Product Description

A selection of twenty years of essays by one woman chronicles the changes in the women's movement, discussing the first Miss America Pageant Protest in 1968, the divorce from the New Left, the first fights for abortion rights, and more. First serial, Ms. Tour.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2768371 in Books
• Published on: 1994-02
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From Publishers Weekly
With a minimum of manipulative rhetoric, well-known feminist Morgan ( The Demon Lover ) takes us on an exhilarating odyssey through the women's movement of the past quarter-century in this selection of essays, meditations, polemics and theoretical articles. Pieces on the first Miss America Pageant protest and on women's rage at male-chauvinist leftists seem a bit dated, but Morgan addresses contemporary issues such as the causal links between pornography and acts of violence against women. She also draws analogies between women and colonized peoples and sketches a "feminist diplomacy" to help women bridge barriers of race, class, age, ethnicity and sexual preference. Surveying the international crime of female genital mutilation, Morgan calls for the abolition of this practice. In trenchant travel pieces, Morgan, editor-in-chief of Ms. magazine, reports on feminist stirrings in the Philippines and on the plight of Palestinian women in Israel's Occupied Territories. Her pieces should instill hope, energy and commitment into feminism.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Robin Morgan Gives Voice to the Rage of all Women
Robin Morgan's collection of essays "The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992" is a powerful reminder of her role as leading theorist of Second Wave feminism. She writes with both clarity and rage. while some of the people referred to in certain essays may be long forgotten people from the history of the 1960s New Left she provides nasty pithy reminders as to why she skewered them in the first place. (Good-bye to all that). Her essay "Theory and Practice: Pornography and Rape" makes this book a must own for any woman interested in feminism.