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Revised edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 381 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Contents |
Foreword / by Jennifer Baumgardner -- Preface to the revised edition -- Prologue. Red dirt girl -- San Francisco chrysalis -- Becoming a scholar -- Valley of Death -- 1968 -- Sisterhood in the time of war -- Revolution in the air -- Cuba libre -- Desperada -- After Attica -- "Indian country" -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
In 1968,the author helped found the Women's Liberation Movement, part of what has been called the second wave of feminism in the United States. Along with a small group of dedicated women in Boston, she produced the first women's liberation journal, No More Fun and Games. She was also an antiwar and anti-racist activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and early 1970s and a fiery, tireless public speaker on issues of patriarchy, capitalism, imperialism, and racism. She worked in Cuba with the Venceremos Brigade and formed associations with other revolutionaries across the spectrum of radical politics, including the Civil Rights Movement, Students for a Democratic Society, the Revolutionary Union, the African National Congress, and the American Indian Movement. Unlike most of those involved in the New Left, she grew up poor, female, and part-Native American in rural Oklahoma, and she often found herself at odds not only with the ruling class but also with the Left and with the women's movement. Her odyssey from Oklahoma poverty to the urban New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement that forever changed American society. In a new afterword, the author reflects on her fast-paced life fifty years ago, in particular as a movement activist and in relationships with men. |
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Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-
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Feminists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women political activists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women revolutionaries -- United States -- Biography.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
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Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938- (OCoLC)fst01666949
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Feminists (OCoLC)fst00922831
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Women political activists (OCoLC)fst01178374
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Women revolutionaries (OCoLC)fst01178470
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United States (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Vietnam War (1961-1975) (OCoLC)fst01431664 |
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1961 - 1975
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies (OCoLC)fst01919896
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| ISBN |
9780806144795 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0806144793 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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