Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surprise, he had agreed to come to Cambridge to talk about Rabbit Redux, and whatever else struck him to speak of. It was one week after he'd been hailed by The Times as one of the great contemporary American authors...right up there with Roth. Bellow, Malamud and Mailer. (No longer would he be the fall goy for all of New York's literary establishment...
...find it difficult to keep writing in a cultural context where--as you said once--"homegrown cabbages" like Mailer and Jones are "mistaken for roses"? Do you still stand by that sentence, and is there any tradition you do feel a part...
Activist Kate Millett's scorching Sexual Politics (TIME, Aug. 31, 1970) drew a frenetic reply in Norman Mailer's celebrated Harper's article, "The Prisoner of Sex," which excoriated many of Millett's arguments but concluded in grudging capitulation: "Women must have their rights to a life which would allow them to look for a mate. And there would be no free search until they were liberated." Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, complained last month: "Now we have women marching in the streets! If only things would quiet down!" Washington Post Co. President...
Although Norman Mailer claims the title for himself, women more than men are the prisoners of sex. The reason is simple. "Without the full capacity to limit her own reproduction," writes Lucinda Cisler in Sisterhood Is Powerful, "a woman's other freedoms are tantalizing mockeries that cannot be exercised." For centuries, organized medicine did little or nothing to ease this biological bondage-as it is regarded by many women today. That situation has changed drastically. Today new medical and legal attitudes are rapidly giving women virtually complete freedom from involuntary conception or motherhood...
...classes deal with the study of women in literature. At the State University of New York at Buffalo, students of Literary Attitudes Toward Women spend 15 weeks reading ten works, about equally divided between those sympathetic to women (The Scarlet Letter, Cymheline) and those that are hostile (Paradise Lost, Mailer's The American Dream...