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Title:
50 years of Ms. : the best of the pathfinding magazine that ignited a revolution
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edited and with commentary by Katherine Spillar and the editors of Ms. ; introduction by Katherine Spillar and Eleanor Smeal ; foreword by Gloria Steinem.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Physical Description:
xxiv, 516 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
ISBN:
9780593321560
General Note:
"This is a Borzoi book." -- title page verso.

Includes index.
Abstract:
"A decade-by-decade compendium of articles, fiction, poetry, and art from Ms. Magazine"-- Provided by publisher.
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Added Uniform Title:
Selections from: Ms. (U.S. : 1971)
Variant Title:
Fifty years of Ms.
Contents:
"Click! The housewife's moment of truth" / by Jane O'Reilly -- "Welfare is a women's issue" / by Johnnie Tillmon -- "The Shulman's marriage agreement" / by Susan Edmiston -- "Wonder Woman: revisited" / by Joanne Edgar -- "Women voters can't be trusted" / by Gloria Steinem -- "Notes from abroad" -- "Populist mechanics" -- "Manners for humans" -- "Body hair: the last frontier" / by Harriet Lyons and Rebecca Rosenblatt -- "Men: clubbishness" / by Marc Fasteau -- "Stories for free children: X: a fabulous child's story" / by Lois Gould -- "More 'stories for free children'" -- "Never again" / by Roberta Brandes Gratz -- "The ticket that might have been... President Chisholm" / by Gloria Steinem -- "Getting to know me: a primer on masturbation" / by Betty Dodson -- "Baseball diamonds are a girl's best friend" / by Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- "Joan Little: the dialectics of rape" / by Angela Davis -- "Testosterone poisoning" / by Alan Alda -- "Lost women" -- "Lesbian custody: a tragic day in court" / by Lindsy Van Gelder -- "Have you ever supported equal pay, child care, or women's groups? The FBI was watching you" / by Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- "If men could menstruate" / by Gloria Steinem -- "Final" / by Linda Pastan -- "The question no one would answer" / by Nawal El Saadawi -- "The life story that asks the question: 'can a girl from a little town in North Carolina find happiness as a priest/poet/lawyer/teacher/revolutionary/feminist/civil rights activist?'" / by Casey Miller and Kate Swift -- "Life on the global assembly line" / by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes -- "The politics of talking in couples: conversus interruptus and other disorders" / by Barbara Ehrenreich -- "Gerda Lerner on the future of our past" / interview by Catharine R. Stimpson -- "Back page: give yourself the last word" -- "A bloodsmoor romance" / by Joyce Carol Oates -- "The contrived postures of femininity" / by Susan Brownmiller -- "The training of a gynecologist" / by David Hellerstein -- "Poem in answer to the question 'why don't you have children?'" / by Jana Harris -- "If women had a foreign policy" -- "Solving the great pronoun debate" / by Marie Shear -- "Date rape: the story of an epidemic and those who deny it" / by Ellen Sweet -- "Finding Celie's voice" / by Alice Walker -- "Divorce: who gets the blame in 'no fault'?" / by Marianne Takas -- "Kathy's day in court" / by Angela Bonavoglia -- "Chromosome count" / by Alison Carlson -- "Ms. lives!" / by Robin Morgan -- "Sex, lies, and advertising" / by Gloria Steinem -- "She" / by Adrienne Rich -- "'Femicide': speaking the unspeakable" / by Jane Caputi and Diana E. H. Russell -- "A day in the life: dispatches from Nome, Alaska, to Virginia Beach" / by Rita Henley Jensen -- "Women rap back" / by Michele Wallace -- "The search for signs of intelligent life in the twenty-first century" / by Jane Wagner -- "Three generations of Native American women's birth experience" / by Joy Harjo -- "I am not one of the" / by Cheryl Marie Wade -- "And the language is race" / by Eleanor Holmes Norton -- "The politics of housework" / by Patricia Mainardi -- "Twenty years of feminist bookstores" / by Carol Seajay -- "Persephone abducted" / by Rita Dove -- "'We are who you are'" / by Bonnie Sherr Klein -- "Today could be the day" / by Audre Lorde -- "What, menopause again? A guide to cultural combat" / by Margaret Morganroth Gullette -- "Raising sons" / by Mary Gordon -- "Hate radio" / by Patricia J. Williams -- "Guest room: saying the word" / by V (formerly Eve Ensler) -- "Women in prison" / by Nina Siegal -- "So who gets the kids? Divorce in the age of equal parenting" / by Susan J. Douglas -- "Studying womanhood" / by Noelle Howey --

"Who wants to marry a feminist?" / by Lisa Jervis -- "Making the cut" / by Martha Coventry -- "The dykes next door" / by Judith Levine -- "Sneak attack: the militarization of U.S. culture" / by Cynthia Enloe -- "A cruel edge: the painful truth about today's pornography, and what men can do about it" / by Robert Jensen -- "One secret thing" / by Sharon Olds -- "What's so funny?" / by Gina Barreca -- "How everything adores being alive" / by Mary Oliver -- "Between a woman and her doctor" / by Martha Mendoza -- "The dialectic of fat" / by Catherine Orenstein -- "Ms. conversation: Lesley Gore and Kathleen Hanna" -- "A brave sisterhood" / by Bay Fang -- "Too poor to parent?" / by Gaylynn Burroughs -- "Forty years of women's studies" / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall -- "Intersections" / by Bonnie Thornton Dill -- "Domestic workers take it to the streets" / by Premilla Nadasen -- "Not a lone wolf" / by Amanda Robb -- "Jailing girls for men's crimes" / by Carrie N. Baker -- "Calling all grand mothers" / by Alice Walker -- "An acequia runs through it" / by Patricia Marina Trujillo -- "What would bell hooks say?" / by Jennifer Williams -- "If the clothes fit" / by Minh-Ha T. Pham -- "Most. Effective. Speaker. Ever." / by Linda Burstyn -- "Court-martialing the military" / by Molly M. Ginty -- "For the price of a pad" / by Linda Villarosa -- "Four (same-sex) weddings and a funeral" / by Susan Goldberg -- "Beyoncé's fierce feminism" / by Janell Hobson -- "Marriage is marriage" / by Sarah Boonin -- "The feminist factor" / by Eleanor Smeal -- "Saving mother from herself" / by Marge Piercy -- "Aftermath of Isla Vista" / by Donna Decker -- "The women of Black Lives Matter" / by Brittney Cooper -- "Peace strength wisdom wonder" / by Aviva Dove-Viebahn -- "Needlework" / by Robin Morgan -- "The crime was pregnancy" / by Amber Khan -- "A social movement that happens to play soccer" / by Dave Zirin --"We want in" / by Carrie N. Baker -- "Beijing + 25" / by Ellen Chesler -- "Do we care?" / by Rakeen Mabud and Lenore Palladino -- "Parity in everything" / by Jennifer M. Piscopo -- "Call in for equality" / by Carrie N. Baker -- "The end of Roe v. Wade?" / on the issues, hosted by Michele Goodwin -- "A case for the Equal Rights Amendment" / by Victoria F. Nourse -- "Women's rights are not 'western values'" / by Sima Samar -- "Abortion is essential to democracy" / by Katherine Spillar and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf -- "Ms. Harriet Tubman at two hundred" / by Janell Hobson -- "Dark energy for Harriet Tubman" / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs -- "The patriarchs' war on women" / by Zoe Marks and Erica Chenoweth.
Chronological Term:
1900-1999
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