Feminism
Scope and Contents
Pro & Con: Essential Starhawk: America’s Best-Known With Talks about the Nature of Power, the “new Age,” Our Resistance to Life’s Mysteries, and the Sacredness of Earth an interview by Frederick G. Levine, Yoga Journal, Nov/Dec 1989, pp. 69 – 72 & 110; Shere Hite in Back: Her Reports on Sex Sparked a Revolution in the Bedroom. Now she Takes on the Family…An Exclusive Excerpt of Her Controversial New Book, Cover story in Ms., Vol. 5, No. 3; For All Those Who Were Indian in a Former Life by Andy Smith, a Cherokee woman who founded the Women of All Red Nations, Ms, Nov/Dec 1991, pp. 44 & 45; When Equity Isn’t Enough a forum: Women and the Family in the 1980’s with Stephanie Coontz and Linda Malanchuk Evergreen State College, Sponsored by Puget Sound Solidarity; Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives by Sandra Harding, Cornell University Press, 1991 ; Feminist’s Old Guard Has lost Touch with Young women by Rene Denfeld, Reprinted from The New Victorians, 1995 plus several other items attached; Guest Opinion: The Return of Carrie Nation by Camille Paglia, Playboy Magazine, pp. 36 – 38 (n.d.) and attached to this is Senior Thesis Proposal: Camille Paglia: Fatal Feminist by Amy Winfred Lang, Ken Clatterbaugh Thesis Advisor, 10 pages; A review of Backlash by Susan Faludi (1991), review is unfavorable, not dated, signed nor author noted. It is likely a man as it says Backlash is “pure propaganda,” There may be some accuracy in the review when compared to Stiffed: The Betrayal of American Man by Susan Faludi published in 1999; Women don’t See Backlash as Two-Way Street by Asta Bowen, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 31, 1992; Hard-Line Feminists Guilty of Ms.-Representation by Christina Hoff Sommers, Wall Street Journal, 11/6/91; Gloria at 61, Steinem Wants Straight Talk, More Fun, and a New Congress by Cynthia Gorney, Mother Jones, Nov/Dec 1995, pp. 22 – 26. Steinem’s Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem was controversial with some feminists in particular. For a man’s perspective of this book See Conclusion by Edward Barton in Mythopoetic Perspectives of Men’s Healing Work: An Anthology for Therapists and Others, Edited by E. R. Barton, West Port, CT: Bergin & Garvey, p. 253; A Philosophy Revolution: A Canadian Philosophical Association (CPA) Becomes a PC Organization by Grant A. Brown, Faculty of Management, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, (n.d.) 12 pages; Muslim Militants Target Bangladeshi Government: Protest Against Feminist Writer Growing by Jonathan Manthrope, Calgary Herald, July 9, 1994, p. A7; Uncensored: Egypt’s Outspoken Feminist sets Up Her Soapbox at the UW by Julie Winokur, The Seattle Times, Cover and pp. 12 – 22; Issues of Transitions, Newsletter of the Coalition of Free Men, Vol. 8, Nos. 2 – 4, Vol. 9, No. 1, Vol. 11, & No. 5, and The Backlash, Promoting the male view point and published by the Shameless Men’s Press, Vol. 1, Nos. 10 & 11; plus several other articles.
Dates
- Creation: 1970?-2016
Creator
- From the Collection: Changing Men Collections (Michigan State University. Libraries) (Organization)
- From the Collection: West Michigan Men's Center (Kalamazoo, Mich.) (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research except for documents bound by a red ribbon, which are restricted.
Conditions Governing Access
The material is stored offsite in Remote Storage. Please contact Special Collections 3 working days in advance if you wish to use it.
Extent
From the Collection: approximately 292 Linear Feet (292 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Repository Details
Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository