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A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing
A provocative collection of essays by one of the foremost thinkers of second-wave feminism
In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work runs a staunch advocacy of equal rights and social justice. Beginning with her provo...more
In a career spanning four decades, Alix Kates Shulman has written on issues ranging from marriage, sex, and divorce to religious identity, age, and family devotion. Throughout her diverse body of work runs a staunch advocacy of equal rights and social justice. Beginning with her provo...more
ebook, 196 pages
Published
April 3rd 2012
by Open Road
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Alix Kates Shulman has compiled fifteen provocative essays from her feministic career over the past four decades. The collection begins with an introduction on how Shulman heard of and became involved in the women’s liberation movement in 1967. It is grouped in four sections: marriage and men, sex, writings, and late life. Shulman begins the first section with A Marriage Agreement, an essay she wrote in 1969 which defines the responsibilities of both spouses for raising their children and caring...more
Originally published at Nose in a Book
As some of you may have noticed, I, Tina, identify as a feminist, and my feminism influences many choices I make in my life. I’ve read Betty Freidan and Anais Nin and Jessica Valenti and Dossie Easton, but, for me, there is no such thing as too much feminist writing. This book gives a little background on our particular brand of cultural patriarchy, and shows some human faces behind revolutionary (in their time) feminist ideals. I could read this stuff forev...more
As some of you may have noticed, I, Tina, identify as a feminist, and my feminism influences many choices I make in my life. I’ve read Betty Freidan and Anais Nin and Jessica Valenti and Dossie Easton, but, for me, there is no such thing as too much feminist writing. This book gives a little background on our particular brand of cultural patriarchy, and shows some human faces behind revolutionary (in their time) feminist ideals. I could read this stuff forev...more
Although I've read a lot about the feminist movement, this book of essays gives it a greater sense of immediacy than anything I've read so far. Alix Kates Shulman was deeply involved in second wave feminism (the so-called "women's movement" of the 60s and beyond). And while I've read a lot and know a lot about this period, it was edifying to absorb first-person writings from someone who was living with the midst of such change. As Alix ages, the focus of her feminist concerns also shifts, from e...more
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Raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Alix attended public schools and planned to be a lawyer like her dad. But in college at Case Western Reserve University she was smitten by philosophy and upon graduation moved to New York City to study philosophy at Columbia grad school. After some years as an encyclopedia editor, she enrolled at New York University, where she took a degree in mathematics, and later, whi...more
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