a memoir of the war years, 1960-1975
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne
- Publish Year
- 2001
- Shelfmark
- B1640 - B
- Thesaurus
- feminisme, vredesbeweging, verzetsbeweging, Cuba, Zuid-Afrika, Verenigde Staten, 1960-1969, biografie
- Description
- Dunbar-Ortiz 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).