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Ti-Grace Atkinson was a leading radical feminist, a founding member of the New York chapter of the National Organization for Women, and, in 1968, a founder of the cadre-oriented group The Feminists.
This collection of Atkinson's writings is comprised mostly of adapted versions of lectures delivered around the country between 1968 and 1972. In these incendiary le ...more
This collection of Atkinson's writings is comprised mostly of adapted versions of lectures delivered around the country between 1968 and 1972. In these incendiary le ...more
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226 pages
Published
August 28th 1974
by Links Books
(first published 1974)
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Sep 07, 2008
Dick Mac
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it was amazing
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Recommends it for:
Anyone interersted in the history of radical thought in America
This collection of essays and speeches helped form my early ideas about radical feminism, the state of the world in wartime America, and the impact of poverty on women and children. Atkinson addresses issues from sex to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and she does it with a trained eye informed by her personal experiences and an amazing sensitivity to the world around her. She embodies the most visceral dynamics of feminism.
I believe there were two schools of feminism in the 1960s:
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I believe there were two schools of feminism in the 1960s:
if yr deep into feminist theory and its history, you'd better read this book. TGA is our formidable fore-sister and she deserves a place in the cannon. also, all else aside, totally worth it for the gorgeous/coocoobananas charts/visual representations of resistance movements dreamed up by TGA and the illustrator, Barbara Nessim.
Not proud of this book for its appropriation of 'amazon' by a celibate straight woman (she said she was attracted to men, I think???) and who took the lesbianism out of 'political lesbianism' (whose origin is in a UK Leeds Revolutionary Feminist group), and heterosexist and racist rants. Reads like some straight white woman's blog. To be fair, she did take it back later on in this same book and actually listened to lesbians about lesbianism. A lesson on approaching lesbianism respectfully.
Aug 29, 2011
Conatus
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it was amazing
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Recommends it for:
Lesbian not (homo-)sexual defined, a passion for thinking
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Stone of wisdom
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materialist-lesbianism-political-th
Dies sind die einzigen Texte aus einer lesbischen Perspektive, die die alltäglichen Erfahrungen analysieren und daraus eine Theorie der Praxis der Befreiung aller Frauen formulieren, eine politische Theorie des Lesbianismus. Jetzt muss ich Straight Mind lesen, Witig bezieht sich auf Ti-Grace Atkinson.
Wie Adorno und Horkheimer zog sich unsere Große Kleine Grazie in die Aesthetik zurück. Mit Schiller und der aestethischen Erziehung kann sie jedoch nicht entweichen.
Catherine MacKinnon hat dann ei ...more
Wie Adorno und Horkheimer zog sich unsere Große Kleine Grazie in die Aesthetik zurück. Mit Schiller und der aestethischen Erziehung kann sie jedoch nicht entweichen.
Catherine MacKinnon hat dann ei ...more
This book is as much about the era of the 1960s and early 1970s as it is about radical feminist theory. I read it when it first came out in 1974 and then reread it nearly 40 years later. It's still powerful, but its main value today is as a document of the times in which left politics flourished. Atkinson had a steel trap mind and an ability to make her ideas clear and to the point. I also liked the unconventional artwork.
oh dear god.
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