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Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975 Paperback – February 1, 2002

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (Author)

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In 1968, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz became a founding member of the early women's liberation movement. Along with a small group of dedicated women, she produced the seminal journal series, No More Fun and Games. Her group, Cell 16 occupied the radical fringe of the growing movement, considered too outspoken and too outrageous by mainstream advocates for women's rights.

Dunbar-Ortiz was also a dedicated anti-war activist and organizer throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During the war years she was a fiery, indefatigable 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 and underground politics, including the SDS, the Weather Underground, the Revolutionary Union, and the African National Congress. But unlike the majority of those in the New Left—young white men from solidly middle-class suburban families—Dunbar-Ortiz grew up poor, female, and part-Indian 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.

Dunbar-Ortiz's odyssey from dust-bowl poverty to the urban radical fringes of the New Left gives a working-class, feminist perspective on a time and a movement which forever changed American society.

"Roxanne Dunbar gives the lie to the myth that all New Left activists of the 60s and 70s were spoiled children of the suburban middle classes. Read this book to find out what are the roots of radicalism—anti-racist, pro-worker, feminist—for a child of working-class Okie background."—Mark Rudd, SDS, Columbia University strike leader

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is a historian and professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at California State University, Hayward. She is the author of Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, The Great Sioux Nation, and Roots of Resistance, among other books.

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Named a "leader of the feminist movement" in Time and Life magazines, Dunbar-Ortiz (history, California State Univ., Hayward; Red Dirt; Roots of Resistance) takes the reader on a firsthand tour through the radical movements and events of the 1960s and early 1970s: South African apartheid, the Black Panthers, the Weather underground, and the antiwar and women's liberation movements. Dunbar-Ortiz cofounded an early feminist group, Cell 16, in Boston that published an influential journal, spoke extensively about women's liberation, worked in Cuba with people who had fought with Castro and Che Guevara, went underground, and was pursued by the FBI. Dunbar is frank about both her struggles and her triumphs. The reader will not find here an objective account of 1960s and 1970s U.S. history but an illuminating look at the inside of political organizing within the radical feminist and Socialist movements during that tumultuous and violent period. Although this is a memoir, Dunbar-Ortiz addresses so many historical events that readers unfamiliar with the period would have benefited from a bibliography. Recommended for academic libraries. Debra Moore, Cerritos Coll., Norwalk, CA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Dunbar-Ortiz, currently a history professor, looks back on her earlier life at the forefront of the feminist movement and as publisher of the feminist journal No More Fun and Games. She recalls her life as a revolutionary in a period of social and political tumult, and the creation of the women's rights movement in the midst of the antiwar and civil rights struggles. Dunbar-Ortiz was a timid housewife when she left Oklahoma for California with her husband. As she developed and grew, she became enamored of feminist politics and eventually left her husband and young daughter for a peripatetic life of traveling, writing, teaching, and speaking out against oppression across the U.S and in Cuba and South Africa. She recalls her personal struggle to reconcile within herself the various frictions of the feminist, black-power, antiwar, and leftist groups. This masterful insider look at radical activism in the 1960s and 1970s is a follow-up to her memoir Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997) and will especially appeal to devotees of the '60s. Vanessa Bush
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

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Paperback: 440 pages
Publisher: City Lights Publishers; First Edition edition (February 1, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0872863905
ISBN-13: 978-0872863903
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Average Customer Review: 9 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,790,297 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1880 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Historical > United States > American Revolution
- #2336 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People > Social Activists
- #5209 in Books > Politics & Social Sciences > Women's Studies > Feminist Theory

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Untold history of a generation of amazing women and their movement

September 25, 2016

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Untold history of a generation of amazing women and their movement. A critically necessary need to know American history for freedom and constitutional rights for all citizens!

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May 24, 2010

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This book changed my life, my direction, my goals. It made me see that a life dedicated to work and the movement is not only possible, but necessary. Essential reading for anyone involved in social justice whether it be personal or political. Professor Ortiz has worked across social movements, anti-war, anti-imperialism, militant feminist, within the educational systems and more. Anyone can relate to some aspect of her work and life. Her writing is so good the memoir reads like a well-told story.

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I have not received this yet!!

October 6, 2013

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I have not received this yet!! Where is it? I've paid for it already. I need it for research. What gives? A ripoff?

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LA4321

Essential account of the era's radical movements

January 16, 2018

Format: Paperback

Whether you agree or disagree with the author's political positions and actions, this book is an essential account of the era's radical political and feminist movements. However, it is disheartening to encounter several elements of speciesism and animal oppression that the author dismissively includes in the book. I hope by this time Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has widened her social justice circle to include speciesism as well.

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December 1, 2003

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Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is from Oklahoma--a story told beautifully in her earlier volume, RED DIRT: GROWING UP OKIE. But her views, both in the 1960s and now, don't fit the Okie image. Yet, paradoxically, she would be the first to acknowledge that her Oklahoma background--poor, part Native American, a socialist grandfather--helped in some ways to shape her radicalism. (To be accurate, her radicalism probably resulted in part from reacting AGAINST her Oklahoma background.)
Dunbar-Ortiz has a remarkable ability to place the story of her life in context with "historical events" going on at the time--in this volume, the women's movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the "radical underground," etc. I recommended this book to my daughter, herself something of an activist (anti-nuclear power). She read it, loved it, and said one thing that was obvious was that Dunbar-Ortiz had kept a journal, thus enabling her to tell her story in rich detail.
She also has a remarkable ability to grab you and shake you and make you think, to make you reconsider stuff you thought you knew. I've been an Okie for 40 years, wear the label proudly, was an activist to some extent in all four major movements of the 60s (civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, environmental, women's). But I was by no means as radical, AM by no means as radical, as Dunbar-Ortiz. Which is part of why this was such a good book for me to read. You should read it too, whatever your political orientation!

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Margaret Randall, author and teacher

Great New Memoir Explores Sixties from Another Angle

August 11, 2002

Format: Paperback

Ruxanne Dunbar-Ortiz' Outlaw Woman is a memoir of an extraordinary time in U.S. history, and it is one that doesn't get bogged down in accusation, scandal, or idealistic reverie. The roots of contemporary feminism are here. The United States war in Vietnam is here. Navive American and African American struggles are here. And other struggles that shaped generations of U.S. radicals--Cuba, South Africa, Chile, Nicaragua. Roxanne's journey through some of the ear's most important movements and events allows us to revisit those times--whatever our own position, then or now. Outlaw Woman is stark, unrelenting, honest, and evocative--of a time when a diverse subculture cared, a time that should make us proud.
Today, when fear and conformity are being thrust at us like a bludgeon, books like this remind us of who we are and that it is legitimate to struggle for justice, equality, and the retrieval of our true spirits.

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September 5, 2002

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OUTLAW WOMAN is a vivid and compelling account of the author's journey through the upheaval, hope and ultimate implosion of the 1960s. With a keen eye for detail and a crisp prose style, Dunbar-Ortiz evokes the heady combination of idealism and trauma that defined that era and transformed her from an apolitical, married college student into a notorious feminist leader and later, an underground revolutionary. This is fascinating history, and especially important for young people who are trying to make sense of the socio-political moment in America today. OUTLAW WOMAN is an honest and courageous attempt to examine and reclaim some of the history of an era that still divides and perplexes us thirty years later. A wonderful and
important read.

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Shloma ben Avram HaKohain

Raw and true

April 17, 2005

Format: Paperback

Outlaw Woman is one of literally hundreds of books that describe the "movement" in its varied forms during the 60's and 70's, but it shines among all of them. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's honesty, courage, and commitment to self-definition and truth are a shining example of what the movement could have been and could still be.

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