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Title: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism by Katha Pollitt ISBN: 0-394-57060-X Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.58 (24 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Loved it! Made me subscribe to The Nation !
Comment: Editor and columnist Katha Pollit may be the sanest person on earth. She also has some ninja-like ability to cut through all the garbage and get to the crux of things while never letting go of the big picture. God I admire her. Anyway, to quit gushing for a moment, even though the essays in here are by now a couple years old, the issues are (sadly) still relevant and so are most of the people and policy-makers. And talking heads (hi Camille). Her awesomely intelligent response to Katie Roiphe's _The Morning After_ is worth the price of the book. If watching idiotic "post-feminists" and conservative pundits and activists makes you want to smoke crack after you break your television, sit back and let Ms. Pollitt reassure you the population has not completely gone to pot. I was educated, I was inspired, I think my young life was saved.
Rating: 5
Summary: Empirically grounded & beautifully phrased-powerful critique
Comment: I had no sense of the extent of the restriction of reproductive rights in our country before I came across Pollitt's analysis, which combines a social scientists' hard headed empiricism with the beautiful phraseology of a poet. If in certain circles feminist understandings of the centrality of the struggle for reproductive freedom, the demonisation of poor mothers, and the shallowness of Roiphe's or Paglia's anti feminism, etc have become common sense, it is in large part due to Pollitt having been so decisive and eloquent in her treatment of these and other issues. Of course not all will appreciate the light of reason and clarity with which she investigates controversy. But please do not mistake that for middle class or conventional feminism. At any rate, anyone who follows her column in The Nation will be astonished by the range of topics she treats with solid empirical knowledge and great insight. The charge oft repeated here at amazon.com that Pollitt is somehow insensitive to class or race can only be based on profound ignorance of what she has actually written. I look forward to what other readers have to say after having read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Straight to the Point
Comment: Ms. Pollitt is a rare gem: a brilliant intellectual who knows how to write simply and well. At times hilarious, at others depressing, this book gets to the point better than just about anything else out there.
Pollitt is also one of the very few people in this country who very regularly talks about issues affecting poor women of every hue across the globe. Birth control, economic freedom, education for girls: these things are even more important to those who don't have access to them than to those of us who, in some measure, do.
No one sees, and tells, the point better than Katha Pollitt. Man or woman, old or young, brown or pink, you need to read this book.
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Title: Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture by Katha Pollitt ISBN: 0679783431 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 06 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Misogynies: Reflections on Myths and Malice by Joan Smith ISBN: 0449905918 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Price of Honor: Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World by Jan Goodwin ISBN: 0452274303 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood ISBN: 038549081X Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi ISBN: 0385425074 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 October, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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