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Maran, Meredith

 
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A feminist assesses the gains and losses of the women's movement and their effect on her life in a candid and witty account that covers such subjects as the "free love" of the sixties, transvestism, and breast cancer. Reprint.

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From an Incomplete Revolution defies political correctness and anti-feminist pieties to reveal just how far we have come--and how far we have to go--since "women's lib" upended our culture a quarter-century ago.

"I'd marched for reproductive rights, but I still mourned the baby I aborted when I was twenty. I'd been in a lesbian relationship for eleven years, but when my car broke down I still longed for a husband. I'd picketed beauty pageants, but I'd been secretly dieting for fifteen years...."

Through the intimate eye of her own experience, Maran speaks to the passionate concerns of women today: from breast cancer and sexual abuse to the challenge of raising children in a violent world. But she also finds much reason for rejoicing. And whether she's reminiscing about "free love" in the '60's, talking shoe styles with a transvestite, or learning how not to play racquetball "like a girl," this is writing to celebrat

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9780553099522: Notes from an Incomplete Revolution: Real Life Since Feminism

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ISBN 10:  0553099523 ISBN 13:  9780553099522
Casa editrice: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 1997
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