Kira Cochrane - Women of the Revolution: Forty Years of Feminism

Contents

The second sex

The Womens Lib movement is a search for meaningful identity

M ARY S TOTT

How to be voluble, sexy and liberated

An interview with Betty Friedan, the American feminists leading propagandist>

M ICHAEL B EHR

Why nice girls finish last

J ILL T WEEDIE

Shirley for President

Shirley Chisholm challenges the assumption that a woman and a black woman at that has no place in the White House

W ILLA P ETSCHEK

Im just a speaker. Ive spoke to thousands. Im glad Im no cleaner no more, its bleedin ard work

May Hobbs, night cleaner, militant and author talks about her life in the East End

A NNA C OOTE

An unresolved strike

All Indian ladies respect older men. We thought that if we respected the foremen they would respect us. Weve learned a lot of things

A NNA C OOTE

Maggie May

M ARY S TOTT

She has been through the gamut of radical chic New York experience, from her days as a freelance journalist when she was an escort to Henry Kissinger through a series of little marriages

Interview with Gloria Steinem

C AROL D IX

Brothers to blame

Susan Brownmiller talks about Against Our Will, her study of rape

T IMERI N. M URARI

Too true confessions

Why the conference to turn attention on crimes against women failed

J ILL T WEEDIE

Slave wages

J ILL T WEEDIE

Reclaim the night

The worst attack on a Guardian woman writer happened in Mayfair. She went out to buy a packet of cigarettes at 9pm and a man with razor blades in his gloves punched her

P OLLY T OYNBEE

Why the euphoria had to stop

The author of Patriarchal Attitudes, first published in 1970, looks back on eight important years

E VA F IGES

How different the history of world literature might look if mothers were writers too.

E RICA J ONG

Second thoughts

It appeared out of nowhere and it hit post-war France like a bomb. How does Simone de Beauvoir see The Second Sex now?

J OHN C UNNINGHAM

Even Liberal Jews had misgivings when the rabbi took a funeral service in a bulging maternity dress

Interview with Julia Neuberger, Britains second woman rabbi

L IZ F ORGAN

Now is the time to stand up and fight

A militant response to the menace of the Yorkshire Ripper

J EAN S TEAD

Letters from a fainthearted feminist

J ILL T WEEDIE

A day with Spare Rib

Lesbianism is a central issue. It is an option all women need to know about and think about

P OLLY T OYNBEE

Ring of resolve to stop cruise

Greenham Common women plan to close the USAF base on Monday

J EAN S TEAD

Her life has had extraordinary ups and downs from prostitute to star, from street car conductorette to university professor

Interview with Maya Angelou

P OLLY T OYNBEE

A world away from womens liberation

Western feminism and women in the third world

S OON -Y OUNG Y OON

Analysis of the political, social and economic progress of women

B ARBARA C ASTLE

We have as much right as anyone to dine out

C AROLYNE S HAKESPEARE C OOPER

The double struggle

Black women and the fight against racism

C HINYELU O NWURAH

Beloved people

Interview with Toni Morrison

R EGINA N ADELSON

Behind the Lines: Ironing in the soul

Twenty years on, what has really changed for women? Germaine Greer praises motherhood. Her guests beg to differ

P OLLY T OYNBEE

Handbag and rule

Mrs Thatcher has never conceded one jot of her female identity. Yet in 1988 as in all the years of her reign, shes not been slow in using it to swat an aberrant male or two

B RENDA P OLAN

An everyday guide to misogyny

Women-haters are not freaks or outcasts, says the novelist Joan Smith, but ordinary men

A NGELA N EUSTATTER

Awful wedded wives

Whats the matter with married women? And why do we put up with them?

M ONICA F URLONG

A meeting of two worlds

Lifting the veil on Islamic feminists in the west

M ADELEINE B UNTING

My daughter begged me: Dont die

In her first interview in Holloway, Sara Thornton talks about her life sentence for killing her violent husband and why she stopped her hunger strike for her childs sake

D UNCAN C AMPBELL

The Gender Agenda

She makes Martin Scorsese look laidback and Joan Rivers look polite. Shes aroused the fury of feminists, and the venom of the American academic establishment. Shes Professor Camille Paglia and shes also very funny

S UZANNE M OORE

Ordinary madness

Thousands of abused women testify to systematic rape in Bosnia. But the Serbian army is not made up of proven sex offenders, they are regular guys. Are, then, all men potential rapists?

C ATHERINE B ENNETT

Feminist under a fatwa

The Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasrin has been forced into exile with a price on her head. Her crime, she says, is trying to free her countrywomen from slavery

L INDA G RANT

The princess and the pain

Forget the future of the monarchy, divorce, the constitution. The most important thing Diana did was to give countless silent women a voice

B EATRIX C AMPBELL

Yea, though I walk through the valley of discrimination

Three years ago, the church took a bold, brave step towards reversing Christianitys 2,000 years of patriarchy. Being at the forefront of such change was always going to be hard

M ADELEINE B UNTING

Chamber of horrors

This week, the government announced it will take action against opposition MPs who make sexist comments in the Commons. A PC fuss about nothing?

A NNE P ERKINS

Pro-lifers have lost but wont give up

D ECCA A ITKENHEAD

Dear Bill and Hillary

The whole world is talking about it, but what do American women really think of the presidential affair?

A NDREA D WORKIN

All white now

Take a closer look at the picture painted in the press of Britains New Feminism. See any black women?

H EIDI S AFIA M IRZA

Get a life, girls

Whats missing from womens lives is interests other than men

E LIZABETH W URTZEL

The power of one

Talk shows made Oprah Winfrey rich and famous. But now shes having second thoughts. Maybe talking is not enough

M AYA J AGGI

The promises feminism made, and broke

BELL HOOKS

Trailblazer of feminism

Interview: Sheila Rowbotham, a pioneer who got lost in the 80s but is being rediscovered by a new generation

M ELISSA B ENN

Sisters of mercy

For 21 years, Southall Black Sisters have campaigned in defence of women jailed for killing violent men

M ELISSA B ENN

When the woman in the witness box began to cry, I cried too

Police believe David Mulcahy may be Britains worst serial rapist we hear from one of his victims

D IANE T AYLOR

Stitched up

What happens when a power feminist becomes a parent? For Naomi Wolf, it meant the birth of two children, rage at the way women are treated and an explosive new book

K ATHARINE V INER

Abortion: still a dirty word?

J ULIE B URCHILL

What women want

Equal pay for equal work is a noble demand, so why does feminism seem so embarrassing these days?

Z OE W ILLIAMS

Brutal legacy of war in Congo

Harrowing evidence of systematic sexual violence against girls and women surfaces as fighting recedes