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A landmark collection of writings that define the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism, from Simone de Beauvoir to Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women's movement today—and revealing how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world.

Here are the words of Doris Lessing, Betty Friedan, Germaine Greer, Anita Hill, and many other important feminist figures. Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women's health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is a thorough record of women's ongoing struggle to control their own destinies and provide alternative visions of a just society and true human equality.

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June 28, 1994
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A sampler of feminist writings that focuses on the 1960s and '70s, this volume begins with a selection from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex (1949) and then jumps rather abruptly to 1962 and Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook . Incorporating a diverse range of contributors, from poets (Anne Sexton) to polemicists (Shulamith Firestone), Schneir's selection is lively, inspiring and inclusive--there are excerpts from legal documents , such as the ERA and Justice Blackmun's majority opinion in Roe v. . Wade , and from political statements from activist groups. Schneir's introductions, providing historical context and relevant biographical data, take pains to be diplomatic but also acknowledge disputes. Of antipornography crusader and censorship advocate Andrea Dworkin she writes, "Her blunt, hard-hitting prose is anything but temperate or judicious." There is no sex-positive voice like Susie Bright or Betty Dodson to counterbalance Dworkin, but in anthologizing a heterogeneous movement, omissions are perhaps inevitable. Schneir has assembled not just a political sampler but an anthology of some of this country's best essayists. Her sequel to Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings will undoubtedly find a home on women's studies syllabuses, but it deserves a much broader readership.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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This anthology, which updates Schneir's previous collection, Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings (Random House, 1972), begins with an excerpt from Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and ends with a section on "Themes of the Eighties and Nineties." Including essays, excerpts from classic works (e.g., The Feminist Mystique, Sexual Politics), statements from organizations, poems, and fiction, Schneir's selections cover a wide variety of topics such as organization of the feminist movement, feminist theory, health, and discrimination against women. All major feminist authors are included, with African Americans and the lesbian perspective well represented, and Schneir provides introductory notes for each. Although many of these selections appear in numerous publications, the convenience of having them in one volume makes this a useful text for women's studies courses and a valuable purchase for nearly all libraries.
Kathryn Moore Crowe, Jackson Lib., Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Schneir collects 50 pieces, including excerpts from Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and Roe v. Wade, and manifestos and statements of purpose from NOW, SDS, Redstockings, Radicalesbians, the National Black Feminist Organization, the Combahee River Collective, the Boston Women's Health Book Collective, and African American Women in Defense of Ourselves, as well as work from highly visible feminists (from de Beauvoir and Freidan to Greer, Steinem, and Faludi), women often viewed in a political context (Bella Abzug, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Anita Hill), and key contributors to feminism's continuing controversies (e.g., Weisenstein, Millett, Daly, Firestone, Morgan, Brownmiller, Dinnerstein, Dworkin, Gilligan, and Eisler). Schneir supplies useful context for and commentary about each selection. Readers who haven't kept up with the twists and turns of feminist thinking over the past several decades will find Schneir's sampler a helpful introduction to longer works that are well worth exploring. Mary Carroll

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From Simone de Beauvoir to Susan Faludi, from the ERA to Anita Hill -- a historically informed sourcebook that defines the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism.

In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women's movement today add reveal how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world.

Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women's health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is the most thorough record to date of women's ongoing struggle to control their own destinies and provide alternative visions of the just society and a true human equality.

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From Simone de Beauvoir to Susan Faludi, from the ERA to Anita Hill -- a historically informed sourcebook that defines the intellectual and political underpinnings of contemporary feminism.
In this important volume, the respected feminist historian Miriam Schneir completes the work she began in her bestselling Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings, presenting contemporary writings that define the women's movement today add reveal how radically transformative a force it is throughout the world.
Ranging from intensely personal statements to ringing manifestos, from diagnosis to outright rebellion, and incorporating both public records and works addressing such specific issues as religion, rape, women's health, pornography, and the concerns of lesbians and women of color, Feminism in Our Time is the most thorough record to date of women's ongoing struggle to control their own destinies and provide alternative visions of the just society and a true human equality.

About the Author

Miriam Schneir is the editor of the anthology Feminism in Our Time: The Essential Writings, World War II to the Present and Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings. She coauthored “Remembering the Ladies”: Women in America, 1750-1815, and wrote with Walter Schneir Invitation to an Inquest, a study of the Rosenberg case. Her articles have appeared in Ms., The Nation, The New York Times Magazine, and various other publications. Under the auspices of Columbia Teachers College, she prepared a critique of the coverage and treatment of women in a multivolume encyclopedia, which was the basis for revision of the encyclopedia. She was a research associate with Columbia University Center for the Social Sciences Program in Sex Roles and Social Change.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage; 1st edition (June 28, 1994)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0679745084
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0679745082
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.2 x 1 x 8 inches

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Miriam Schneir’s writings reflect her lifelong commitment to issues of peace, justice, and equality. She is the editor/author of a three-book series dedicated to uncovering the hidden history of women. The series includes the anthologies Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings—published in the United States, with editions in the United Kingdom, Australia, Russia, and Korea—and Feminism in Our Time, which contains foundational documents in the struggle for women’s rights as well as excerpts from work by Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Audre Lorde, Germaine Greer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and many others. A prequel, Before Feminism: The History of an Idea Without a Name, published in 2021, traces the development of feminist sentiment from ancient Greece to the founding of the first movement for women’s rights in 1848.

Miriam coauthored, with her husband Walter Schneir, Invitation to an Inquest, a groundbreaking investigation of the atomic-espionage case of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. Widely reviewed and discussed in the media, it inspired a public debate at New York City’s Town Hall and several documentary films. As caches of previously secret government files were made public, the Schneirs prepared follow-up editions of Invitation to an Inquest, and in 2011 they published a summing up: Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case (Melville House).

Articles by Miriam alone or written jointly with Walter have appeared in various national publications, including The Nation, Ms., The New York Times Magazine, and The New York Review of Books. Their writings cover topic as diverse as educational reform, free speech, mccarthyism, women’s history, and law. An investigative report on right-wing attacks on the press received the Free Press Association’s Mencken Award for “outstanding journalism in support of liberty.”

Miriam and Walter Schneir have lived in New York City; in Pleasantville, New York; and in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. They have two sons and a daughter and four grandchildren. Walter died in 2009.

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AN EXCELLENT COLLECTION OF FEMINIST WRITINGS FROM 1949-1993

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Miriam Schneir has written/edited books such as Feminism: The Essential Historical Writings , Remember the Ladies: Women in America 1750-1815 , and Vintage Book of Historical Feminism ; but she may be best known as coauthor (with husband Walter) of Invitation to an Inquest , a defense of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. [But she and Walter later changed their minds about the Rosenbergs; see Final Verdict: What Really Happened in the Rosenberg Case .]

This 1994 collection contains writings (often excerpts from larger works) by Simone de Beauvoir, Doris Lessing, Sylvia Plath, Betty Friedan, Robin Morgan, Audre Lorde, Naomi Weisstein, Kate Millett, Shulamith Firestone, Mary Daly, Susan Brownmiller, Dorothy Dinnerstein, Michele Wallace, Adrienne Rich, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dworkin, Carol Gilligan, Riane Eisler, Susan Faludi, and many others. Influential essays such as “The Redstockings Manifesto,” “The Woman-Identified Woman,” and “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm” are included, as well, in addition to historical documents (including Anita Hill’s “Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee”).

Schneir explains in her Introduction, “This anthology brings together the major literature and documents that inspired and shaped modern feminism. The writings cover a period of more than forty years---from 1949, when Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex was published in France, to 1993, when Ruth Bader Ginsburg responded to her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.” (Pg. ix) She continues, “The readings in this volume are arranged chronologically within sections, with the sections reflecting the lines of development of the modern women’s movement. Preceding each selection is a headnote that places it in historical context and offers interpretative commentary along with a thumbnail sketch of the author, where useful…

“Here then are the essential writings of feminism in our time. To those who participated in the adventure of the sixties and seventies, many of these readings will be familiar. When first encountered, they were revelatory… Some were best-sellers, some were passed hand-to-hand in mimeographed form. Either way, these were texts that women took to heart, finding in them expression of their inchoate feelings and uncannily accurate analysis of their own life situation…. The writings in this volume are a legacy from feminists of the recent past, to arm our vision for the inevitable struggles ahead.” (Pg. xvi)

Schneir comments about Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique , “[The book] was not without shortcomings, as no pioneering work can be. First, for the homebound wife and mother who wished to get out into the world, it offered few specific remedies. Second, it neglected the subject of men’s self-interest in sustaining their privileged position, which resulted of underestimation of what it would take to free women. Finally, it was narrowly directed to the educated American housewife… It did not deal with the dissatisfactions of poor and often immigrant or minority women, who worked out of necessity rather than for personal fulfillment. But despite these deficiencies, for women to whom it spoke, [the book] was a compelling and ultimately transforming experience. It stands alongside those few books in our century that have changed the thinking of vast numbers of people.” (Pg. 49-50)

She later observes, “Ultimately, radical women split into two camps. On one side were the ‘radical feminists,’ who believed that the subordinate status of women was caused by a system of sex-role stereotypes that could be dislodged only by a SEPARATE movement dedicated solely to women’s liberation. On the other side were the ‘politicos,’ those women who saw capitalism as the root of the problem and who continued to work against sexism from within various New Left organizations.” (Pg. 109)

Of the 1968 protest against the Miss America pageant, she observes, “The novelty of this event attracted tremendous media notice. The protesters were inaccurately branded ‘bra-burners,’ an epithet that afterward was widely applied to feminists. But all the publicity at least had the effect of alerting the nation to the fact that a new wave of feminism was forming and gathering force among the unpredictable younger generation.” (Pg. 125)

In collections like this one, one can always quibble about why certain writings were included, and others were left out; but this is an excellent and broad collection, and Schneir’s introductions to each selection are uniformly most helpful.

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My first Fem Book that I read-

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I am reading another one-but have gotten more into this one... it is connecting the dots to things I have known but not full scale. It was a relief to see things in words- written- the guts to write what I have thought- not in anger but in truth and enlightenment. Women need to know the truth of what we have gone through so we can continue to teach the youth so they do not take it for granted our rights and freedoms.

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