Gertrude Ezorsky presents a powerfully reasoned argument in favor of raising out of misery that part of the American population that has been relegated to the most miserable jobs and deprived of civil rights and humane treatment. The book starts …
Women Analyze Women: In France, England, and the United States by Elaine Hoffman Baruch and Lucienne J. Serrano New York University Press, 1988 The Bonds of Love: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and the Problem of Domination by Jessica Benjamin Pantheon Books, 1988 …
This book is about motherhood. Its main thrust is a call for a national policy that would support women as mothers. The author shows that the United States hardly has any such policy and in this respect differs sharply from …
It is hard to believe: American women spend about as much time on housework today as they did one or two centuries ago. In the 18th century, to take an example, when fine wheat flour replaced homegrown corn and rye …
is it not a disgrace that a society priding itself on its advoacy of human rights, on its sense of equality and individualism, would deny the symbolic recognition of these rights to women? It took a struggle of more than …
Aleksandra Kollontai, the first woman to be a member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist party at the start of the Revolution, was one of the few Bolshevik leaders who survived the purges of the ’30s. In earlier …
Time and again, the demise of the family in America has been predicted by ultra-radicals and conservatives alike, by the former as part of their wishful thinking, by the latter as part of their disenchantment with every sign of social …
In the past 25 years the number of working women in America has nearly doubled. Today 55 percent of women aged 18-64 are part of the labor force. Still, despite the efforts of the women’s movement—and much general lip service—women …
I am not one of the old circle of acquaintances who write knowingly to each other and to a receptive audience in the pages of Dissent; yet I have read virtually every issue since a fellow graduate student who was …
Here to Stay: American Families in the Twentieth Century, by Mary Jo Bane. New York: Basic Books. 195 pp. Conservatives panic at the thought of the demise of the American family; utopians call for its abolition. Both seem to agree …
Affirmative Action: Ethnic Intensity and Public Policy, by Nathan Glazer. New York: Basic Books. 248 pp. Nathan Glazer is troubled by what he thinks is affirmative action, even though he concedes that “eve have not quite reached the degraded condition of …
Dear Colleague: I am glad you agree with me that discrimination against women in employment generally, and in the academy in particular, has to end; and that the socialization process, by which women are directed away from the world of …
The New Chastity and Other Arguments Against Women’s Liberation, by Midge Decter. New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan. 188 pp. The American Woman: Her Changing Social, Economic and Political Roles, 1920-1970, by William H. Chafe. New York: Oxford University Press. …
The brief life of Anne Parsons was a search for purity and meaning, a longing for a better world to live in. There was about it the white beauty of a church steeple or of a fresh snowfall in the …
“A Society that can afford atomic bombs can afford some good psychiatry,” say the authors in their conclusions to this book, after documenting in impressive detail that at present American society provides scandalously poor psychiatric care to the majority of …
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