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Feminism

 File — Box: 134, Folder: 17

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

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Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research except for documents bound by a red ribbon, which are restricted.

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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

Related Materials

See MSU Library Catalog for more items authored by Sandra Harding. See MSU Library Catalog for more items authored by Camille Paglia. See MSU Library Catalog for more items authored by Susan Faludi. See MSU Library Catalog for more items authored by Christine Hoff Summers. See MSU Library Catalog for more items authored by Gloria Steinem.

Repository Details

Part of the Stephen O. Murray and Keelung Hong Special Collections Repository

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