Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium
(Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking antholog...)
Thirty years after Robin Morgan's groundbreaking anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful -- named by The American Librarians' Association one of "The 100 Most Influential Books of the Twentieth Century" -- comes this landmark new collection for the twenty-first century.
Sisterhood Is Forever -- with over 60 original essays Morgan commissioned from well-known feminist leaders plus energetic Gen X and Y activists -- is a composite mural of the female experience in America: where we've been, where we are, where we're going. The stunning scope of topics ranges from reproductive, health, and environmental issues to workplace inequities and the economics of women's unpaid labor; from globalization to the politics of aging; from cyberspace, violence against women, and electoral politics to spirituality, the law, the media, and academia. The deliberately audacious mix of contributors spans different generations, races, ethnicities, and sexual preferences: CEOs, housewives, rock stars, farmers, scientists, prostituted women, politicians, women in prison, firefighters, disability activists, artists, flight attendants, an army general, an astronaut, an anchorwoman, even a pair of teens who edit a girls' magazine. Each article celebrates the writer's personal voice -- her humor, passion, anger, and the integrity of her perspective -- while offering the latest data on women's status, political analysis, new "how-to" tools for activism, and visionary yet practical strategies for the future -- strategies needed now more than ever. Robin Morgan's own contributions are everything her readers expect: prophetic, powerfully argued, unsentimentally lyrical. From her introduction: "The book you hold in your hands is a tool for the future -- a future also in your hands."
Edna Acosta-Belén Carol J. Adams Margot Adler Natalie Angier Ellen Appel-Bronstein Mary Baird Brenda Berkman Christine E. Bose Kathy Boudin Ellen Bravo Vednita Carter Wendy Chavkin Kimberlé Crenshaw Gail Dines Paula DiPerna Helen Drusine Andrea Dworkin Eve Ensler Barbara Findlen Mary Foley Patricia Friend Theresa Funiciello Carol Gilligan Sara K. Gould Ana Grossman The Guerrilla Girls Beverly Guy-Sheftall Kathleen Hanna Laura Hershey Anita Hill Florence Howe Donna M. Hughes Karla Jay Mae C. Jemison Carol Jenkins Claudia J. Kennedy Alice Kessler-Harris Clara Sue Kidwell Frances Kissling Sandy Lerner Suzanne Braun Levine Barbara Macdonald Catharine A. MacKinnon Jane Roland Martin Debra Michals Robin Morgan Jessica Neuwirth Judy Norsigian Eleanor Holmes Norton Grace Paley Emma Peters-Axtell Cynthia Rich Amy Richards Cecile Richards Carolyn Sachs Marianne Schnall Pat Schroeder Patricia Silverthorn Eleanor Smeal Roslyn D. Smith Gloria Steinem Mary Thom Jasmine Victoria Faye Wattleton Marie Wilson Helen Zia
Sisterhood is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology
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Sisterhood Is Global has been revered as the essential ...)
Sisterhood Is Global has been revered as the essential feminist text on the international women's movement since its first appearance, when it was hailed as "a historic publishing event." The anthology features original essays Morgan commissioned from a deliberately eclectic mix of women both famous and less known-grass-roots activisits, politicians, scholars, querillas, novelists, social scientists, and journalists-representing seventy countries, from every region and political system, with particular emphasis on the Global South. These truth-telling, impassioned essays celebrate the diversity as well as the similarity of women's experience; they also reveal shared female rage, vision, and pragmatic strategies for worldwide feminist solidarity and political transformation.
The first such international collection, Sisterhood Is Global became an instant classic and remains unequalled in its breadth and comprehensiveness. The book covers Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and includes moving essays from such distinguished writers as Marjorie Agosin (Chile), Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana), Shulamit Aloni (Israel), Peggy Antrobus (Caribbean), Simone de Beauvoir (France), Lidia Falcon (Spain), Hema Goonatilake (Sri Lanka), Fatima Mernessi (Morocco), Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt), Ana Titkow (Poland), Marilyn Waring (New Zealand), and Xiao Lu (China).
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When the Catholic Church brings the Inquisition to Ireland, Lady Alyce Kyteler refuses to grant them power over her lands or her people, and refuses to stop the practice of The Old Religion. Declared a dangerous heretic by the Popes emissary, Lady Alyce determines to fight back. Against the penalty of being burned at the stake, she risks all to protect her people, her faith, and her beloved Ireland.
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Robin Morgan is an American writer, editor, poet, and political activist. She is one of the leading feminists in the United States.
Background
Robin Morgan was born on January 29, 1941, in Lake Worth, Florida. She was the daughter of Faith Berkley Morgan. She grew up in Mount Vernon, New York, and at an early age wanted to be a doctor and a poet. "The male-supremacist society destroyed the first ambition, " she once wrote, "but couldn't dent the second. "
Education
In the late 1956 she attended Columbia University in New York.
Career
During the early 1966, while working as a literary agent and free-lance editor in New York City, Morgan began publishing poetry. A collection of her poems from the 1966 appeared in 1972 under the title Monster.
By the late 1966, however, Morgan's primary interest and commitment became feminism, the cause with which her best known writings are concerned. That her transition to feminism involved difficult personal change is suggested in her "Letters from a Marriage, " which were written mainly to her husband (but with an eye to eventual publication) from 1962 to 1973. They were published in Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist (1977). By the late 1966 Morgan had become active in New York Radical Women, one branch of which-the Redstockings and later the Radical Feminists-developed much of the theoretical ground for the contemporary women's movement. In particular, these women, many of whom had been active in the peace and civil rights movements, rebelled against the male-dominated "new left" in which they had been accorded second-class treatment. Morgan's article "Goodbye to All That, " which appeared in 1970, was later considered a classic expression of the feminists' rejection of the male left. The "radical feminists" came to believe that all social oppression lay in the domination of women by men.
Morgan remained apart from the theoretical wing of the movement and participated instead in an action-oriented group, WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell). These women engaged in "guerrilla-theater" tactics, such as demonstrating before the Miss America Pageant on September 7, 1968; protesting the New York Bridal Fair on February 15, 1969; and "hexing" Wall Street. Going Too Far (1977) includes a selection of articles Morgan wrote during this period which chronicle her feminist transitions. In 1970 Morgan co-edited (with Charlotte Bunch and Joanne Cooke) a collection entitled The New Woman. That same year she put forth the work for which she is perhaps best known, Sisterhood Is Powerful, a massive anthology of over 50 articles and numerous manifestoes and documents written in the early years of the contemporary feminist movement. It became one of the most important sources by which feminist ideas were disseminated across the country in the early 1976. During the rest of the decade Morgan lectured extensively both nationally and internationally, and in 1977 she became a contributing editor to Ms. Magazine. She also published another book of poems, Lady of the Beasts, in 1976. In the 1986 Morgan put forth two important works. One, The Anatomy of Freedom: Feminism, Physics, and Global Politics, appeared in 1982. The second, Sisterhood Is Global: The International Women's Movement Anthology, was published in 1984. The Anatomy of Freedom is a formally innovative work that combines personal narrative, fable, allegorical drama, and feminist theorizing. In it Morgan presents feminism not just as a struggle for equal rights but as a "vision" that is "crucial to the continuation of sentient life on this planet. " Its most intriguing aspect is Morgan's attempt to merge the feminist vision, which she sees as integrative and holistic, with the view proposed in the new physics (quantum theory and relativity), which also, Morgan argues, mandates a holistic, contextual approach to reality. Morgan's position in this work may be labelled "cultural feminism, " a view that considers women as heirs to a humane, ecologically holistic value-system, which can be a font of regeneration in a world dominated by a destructive, masculine ethic. Sisterhood Is Global is in a sense a continuation of Sisterhood Is Powerful, but expanded to an international scope. This anthology of over 800 pages includes articles that detail the condition of women in more than 70 countries. In her introduction Morgan continues her cultural feminist perspective by noting the significance of 1984 as a publishing date. Referring to George Orwell's dystopian novel of that title, Morgan asserts that only women working together and in accordance with their historically humane and pacifist ethic can overcome the forces of Big Brother, which she sees operating globally.
Morgan was engaged in leftist political activities centered around opposition to the U. S. engagement in Vietnam. She contributed articles and poetry to such left-wing journals as Liberation, Rat, Win, and The Guardian.
Views
Quotations:
"I believe that sexism is the root oppression, the one which, until and unless we uproot it, will continue to put forth the branches of racism, class hatred, ageism, competition, ecological disaster, and economic exploitation. "
Membership
Feminist Writers' Guild, Media Women, North American Feminist Coalition, Pan Arab Feminist Solidarity Association, Israeli Feminists Against Occupation
Connections
On September 19, 1962, she married Kenneth Pitchford, a poet. They had one child, Blake Ariel Morgan-Pitchford.