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...rate, so says The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook, a radical feminist guide to the ideas and institutional outlets of the woman's movement. In format, the Sourcebook resembles The Whole Earth Catalogue and its own predecessor, The New Woman's Survival Catalogue; it contains listings of resources by and for women in areas like health, education, work, literature, religion and politics, along with blurbs summarizing the latest feminist thinking on each topic. The blurbs are to read, the listings are for reference, and the whole constitutes an invaluable gauge of the progress feminists have made so far in redefining...
...certain skepticism towards Marxists and men notwithstanding, the editors of the Sourcebook, Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, claim to be proponents of what they call "militant pluralism". Consciously eschewing a rigid political stance, Grimstad and Rennie argue that the movement's very strength lies in its ott-bemoaned diversity (to some, incoherence), since "dogmatism and 'correct line' politics are usually the sign of weakness in a political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist...
This stress on women doing for other women--women setting up their own restaurants, businesses, record companies and rape clinics, women creating their own distinctive art based on their unique experience as women--is what makes the Sourcebook valuable as a stimulus to the aspiring, or perhaps hitherto slumbering, feminist. There's a tremendous sense of power, of almost endless possibilities conveyed by this glimpse at what others have done and are trying...
...writers of the Sourcebook fairly glory in their womanhood, in their appreciation of feminism as a force "to enrich and diversify human life." Concomitant with this appreciation is a healthy distrust of those who would deny women their proper place in any scheme for societal and cultural revolution. And it is in this context that Marxist feminists and would-be "liberated" men come in for such a rough time. The problem with Marxists, says the Sourcebook, is that they fail to locate the problem of sexism where it belongs--in the oppression of women, as a class...
Langer, who is now retired and living in Florida, tapped three major sources: he conducted exhaustive interviews with people who had known Hitler; he used "The Hitler sourcebook" (1,100 pages of biographical data compiled by three analytically trained assistants); and he carefully studied Mein Kampf. His conclusion: Hitler was "probably a neurotic psychopath bordering on schizophrenia," or, in simpler terms, the Fuhrer was not insane but was emotionally sick and lacked normal inhibitions against antisocial behavior. A desperately unhappy man, he was beset by fears, doubts, loneliness and guilt, and spent his whole life in an unsuccessful attempt...