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...young girl, and a young woman who has just left a married-man situation. I can see both women's sides because I've been in both situations." Another pet project is a script that she hopes will be the first "Women's Lib western," in which the principal character is not the usual prostitute or schoolmarm, but "a recognizable human being, an independent, thinking, feeling woman...
...cope with the torrent some booksellers have set up special Women's Lib shelves. In Los Angeles a new and fast-growing Feminist Book Club offers members 150 selected titles in a dozen helpful categories. Among them: Basic Feminist Library, Children's Liberation and, yes, Herstory. Otherwise, readers who want to keep up are hard put to make a choice among so many titles and subjects that so often sound the same. The list below of some of the best books brought out in the past few years may help...
...history, in being statistics-prone, in using hard-sell copy to deplore, among other things, the effects of consumer oversell, in invoking the individual's absolute right to absolute self-expression at all costs, in preaching that a rejiggered environment can cure all hereditary ills, Women's Lib writers are simply doing what seems to come naturally to other Americans these days. Besides, once the hectoring and hyperbole are allowed for, the collective case made in these books against feminine exploitation is compelling...
...authors, one on the staff of CBS News, the other a freelance writer, seem to have read everything written about Women's Lib and then readably and objectively distilled it into a history, guide, and reference work about feminist attitudes on every conceivable subject from Adam's rib theology to the recent correction of Sesame Street's "male chauvinism." The book to have if you're having only...
...book is concerned with mind and language. She shows with wit and logic that sexual analogies and feminine literary stereotypes-e.g., formlessness, passivity, piety, irrationality-are the misleading products of masculine delusion and illogic. A pleasure, whatever the reader's persuasion about Women's Lib...