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...Manhattan, president of District 65 of the Distributive Workers of America: "The women's groups have always espoused the 'Don't admit you can type philosophy.' And I don't appreciate them acting as if secretarial work is the lowest form of human endeavor. Sisterhood across class lines is a myth." Nor do many blue-collar women share the white-collar feminist's interest' in rising to high-level jobs. "We're laundry workers, X-ray technicians and the like," explains Elinor Glenn, of North Hollywood, Calif., a member of Local...
That puts King in a difficult spot. To be the sisterhood's standard bearer in Riggs' circus is to accept a cup she would rather pass. She acknowledges that "the only reason I'm playing him is because Margaret had to go out and play like a donkey." So she is out to avenge Riggs' humiliation of Margaret Court after all, and that rankles. "I mean, if I beat him, what merit does it have? Big deal. But I don't want to lose to this guy. I don't want to lose...
...York Review of Books, a woman who has accompanied the Review on its way of political radicalization, and who now speaks wearily of her experiences at the recent Democratic Convention as "just like all those peace marches and demonstrations I've gone to"--these words boded ill for "sisterhood's" intellectual efforts...
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...
...doing to take care of my baby," and "I'm scared to death of men." The members soon realize that their frustrations and insecurities are common to many women. The next week they are ready for a session based on such works as Robin Morgan's anthology, Sisterhood Is Powerful, or Anne Koedt's interview with a lesbian, "Can Women Love Women...