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No More Nice Girls: Countercultural Essays by [Ellen Willis]

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With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: “a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life.” Moving between scholarly and down-to-earth activist writing styles, Willis confronts the conservative backlash that has slowly eroded democratic ideals and advances of the 1960s as well as the internal debates that have frequently splintered the left.

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Ellen Willis (1941–2006) was the first pop music critic for the New Yorker and an editor and columnist at the Village Voice. A groundbreaking radical leftist author and thinker, she has contributed to numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Nation, and was the founder of the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University. Her work is published in three other books of essays: Out of the Vinyl Deeps, No More Nice Girls, and Don’t Think, Smile!

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From Publishers Weekly

This anthology collects the book reviews, feminist political essays and fiction that Willis, formerly a Village Voice columnist and now a New York University associate professor of journalism, published during the Reagan-Bush years. The book opens with several works from the early '80s that tediously address psychosexual issues within the feminist movement. Beyond these exercises in anti-misogynist rhetoric, however, lie many outstanding works. In "Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism," Willis chronicles the internal struggles, strategies and consequent splintering of the women's movement, while in "Escape From New York" she writes nostalgically of her fellow aging radicals and their compromises. In more recent pieces Willis eloquently argues her pro-choice position on abortion and offers a balanced perspective on the racial division within the women's movement. Essays on the issues of parental responsibility in an age of reproductive choice and on the war on drugs demonstrate her ability to communicate strong, rational arguments for emotionally charged liberal philosophies.
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From Library Journal

In this first collection of essays since her Beginning To See the Light ( LJ 6/1/81), feminist / journalist Willis documents the struggle toward transforming society in the conservative 1980s. Moving between academic and earthy, activist writing styles, she explores changes in feminism, race relations, and cultural politics. Critiquing a culture that has backed away from the promises and idealism of the Sixties, Willis reimagines a world committed to a democracy that values individual happiness and self-development. She concentrates specifically on feminism, drawing on her earlier personal experiences with the radical feminist movement, to explore both the movement's internal failures and the well-orchestrated external attacks against it that have come from the right. Recommended for communications and women's studies collections.
- Judy Solberg, Univ. of Maryland Libs., College Park
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the hardcover edition.

From The Washington Post

"It is refreshing to read No More Nice Girls and have one's synapses jolted . . . she provides the intellectual underpinnings necessary for change. She reminds us as well that being a feminist is nothing to be ashamed of." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"Convincingly cast[s] the early 1990s as a crucial moment in the history of women's sexual freedom . . . begin[s] to articulate the vision of some who are theorizing and working politically to make feminist sexual revolutions possible." -- The Nation

"No More Nice Girls offers the closest thing to unalloyed feminist intellectual pleasure that anyone as inherently contentious as a feminist intellectual is likely to come across." -- Voice Literary Supplement

"With intellectual sophistication and a rich historical perspective, Ms. Willis deals with a host of topics (from sexual repression to fetal rights to the space race) to reiterate certain points." -- New York Times Book Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BG297VY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Univ Of Minnesota Press (July 5, 2012)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 5, 2012
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 862 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 306 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 0816680795

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Ellen Willis (1941-2006) was the first rock critic for the New Yorker, an editor and columnist at the Village Voice, and cofounder of the radical feminist group Redstockings. Her writing appeared in numerous publications, including Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and the Nation. She established the Cultural Reporting and Criticism program at New York University and published "Beginning to See the Light" and "No More Nice Girls," both reissued from Minnesota in 2012, as well as "Don't Think, Smile!" Her award-winning posthumous collection of rock criticism, "Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music," was published in 2011, also by University of Minnesota Press.

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Winslow

Essential Reading

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2016

Honestly, one of the best books I have ever read. I thought I was reasonably well-read in feminism, but if I was recommending just one book to someone who wasn't sure what to think about feminism, it would be this one. If everyone just read No More Nice Girls we could avoid a lot of misconceptions about the movement and, more importantly, how to move forward, women, men and everyone in between.

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Wade Rathke

Work on the Redstockings and other groups too easily forgotten. Other essays feel like they don't belong ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2015

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Invaluable history of the development of the women's movement. Work on the Redstockings and other groups too easily forgotten. Other essays feel like they don't belong in this book, but Willis was special.

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zyzzyB

Interesting look at a time

Reviewed in the United States on March 27, 2020

Feminism in the late 70s and 80s was new, but sort of the same as now. I would like to see these topics updated to 2020, but some of them wouldn't need to be.

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