In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution - Rilegato

Brownmiller, Susan

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ISBN 10: 0385314868 ISBN 13: 9780385314862

Casa editrice: Dial Pr, 1999

Riassunto

The feminist activist shares her passionate, harrowing tale of growing up a woman before the era of legalized abortion and rape crisis centers, offering revealing portraits of Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germaine Greer, and Gloria Steinem, among others.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Susan Brownmiller is the author of Against Our Will: Men, Women And Rape; Femininity; Waverly Place, a novel; Seeing Vietnam, and Shirley Chisholm, a biography for children.  She has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, Esquire, Vogue, Rolling Stone, The Nation, and many other publications.  She lives in New York City.

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as a time when the concept of equal pay for equal work did not exist, when women of all ages were "girls," when abortion was a back-alley procedure, when there was no such thing as a rape crisis center or a shelter for battered women, when "sexual harassment" had not yet been named and defined. "If conditions are right," Susan Brownmiller says in this stunning memoir, "if the anger of enough people has reached the boiling point, the exploding passion can ignite a societal transformation."

In Our Time tells the story of that transformation, as only Brownmiller can. A leading feminist activist and the author of Against Our Will, the book that changed the nation's perception of rape, she now brings the Women's Liberation movement and its passionate history vividly to life.

Here is the colorful cast of characters on whose shoulders we stand--the feminist icons Betty Friedan, Kate Millett, Germ

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Dial Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0385314868
• ISBN 13: 9780385314862
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 360
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile