sense and dissents on women, politics, and culture
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pollitt, Katha
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B2661 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, armoede, etniciteit, vrouwenbewegingen, positieve actie, huwelijken, geweld, abortussen, politieke participatie, homoseksualiteit, pornografie, bundel, 20e eeuw, Verenigde Staten
- Description
- In these 88 brief essays, the author writes about social and political issues like abortion, welfare reform, affirmative action, gun rights and control. Nor is she reluctant to turn her gaze close to home, to the gap between the Nation's high-minded principles and its largely lily-white editorial offices, for example, in her discussion of various liberal hypocrisies. Her newly written introduction calls upon feminists at the millennium to kick-start the 'stalled revolution' with renewed demands for change that, she says, would further social justice, and themselves transform those who articulate them. If there is anything to regret in this collection, it is that columns written seven years ago remain fresh today, so little progress having been made toward resolving the issues they raise.