GET SOME HISTORY: SECOND-WAVE EDUCATION:

Chicago Women's Liberation Union history site. Covers Chicago's rich history in the women's liberation movement of the 1970s. Includes the opportunity to order a CD from its rock band and classic posters. Also has a page about my play Jane.

The website of women's liberation movement pioneer, author, editor and lecturer Jo Freeman. Her latest book, A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics, is a groundbreaking study about the Republican Party and feminism. Jo edited the first national women's liberation publication in the 1960's, has a background in the civil rights & student movements, and is an attorney with extensive knowledge of women and the law.

Feminist Memoir Project, raw, honest, unprocessed memoirs from the women who lived the revolution of the 1970s. Edited by Rachel Blau Duplessis & Ann Snitow. Now reissued in paperback. My original 1998 Chicago Tribune review

Daring to Be Bad, by Alice Echols, on radical feminists from 1967 through 1975. (1990)

RE: THIRD WAVE (loosely defined: born in 1960s and 1970s)

Trixie Films of Brooklyn NY, worked with Paula on the documentary "I Was a Teenage Feminist."

Exceedingly well researched Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism, by Astrid Henry of St. Mary's College.

Needless to say:
Feminist Fatale: Voices from the 'twentysomething' Generation Explore the Future of the Women's Movement, noted as first Gen X feminist book, exploring generational differences.

Her Way: Young Women Remake the Sexual Revolution, first journalistic reports on post-boomer women sexual attitudes.

RE: GEN Y FEMINISTS (very loosely defined: feminists coming of age in 21st Century):

We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists( 2006), edited by Melody Berger. Features a wide diversity of essays, such as from Shelby Knox, subject of indie film "The Education of Shelby Knox" on sex-ed activism in a very red state (Texas), to Stephanie Seguin about her Gainesville group doing a FDA sit in for the morning after pill.

Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: How the Quest for Perfection is Harming Young Women by Courtney Martin.

Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Feminist's Guide to Why Feminism Matters (2007) by Jessica Valenti, the founder of feministing.com

Yes Means Yes: Visions of Sexual Power and a World Without Rape, co-edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti, a Gen Y very pro-sex take on the classic 1993 book, updated in 2005, Transforming a Rape Culture

The 'F' Word: Feminism in Jeopardy, very well researched and well written study of young women and feminist attitudes by Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, founder of momsrising.com (2004)

The Feminist Majority Foundation's campus organizing, with 431 chapters in 44 states. A leader in protesting against abstinence-only education and fake abortion clinics, as well as championing rights for women in Developing World. Holds annual Young Feminist Leadership Conference in DC in March.

Planned Parenthood's campus Vox chapters, now numbering about 200, tackling reproductive rights and education.

"Our Truths/Nuestras Verdades" Magazine, a bilingual pro-choice magazine that dares to share women's mixed experiences with abortion. . A publication of the Oakland-based href="http://www.4exhale.org/index.php">Exhale post-abortion counseling service.

The New-York-City-based website, jezebel.com, which wittily addresses pop culture & feminism.

A new blog Akimbo, of the International Women's Health Coalition. Features commentary by young activists.

Chicago Abortion Fund. With a call-in show hosted by young African American women, broadcast on youtube.com. An outgrowth of the legendary underground Chicago pre-Roe abortion service, Jane. as described in Chicago Tribune article.
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ALL-AROUND GREAT FEMINIST RESOURCES:

The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America, by UC-Berkeley professor Ruth Rosen. Invaluable epilogue in 2006 edition summing up post-boomer movements of 1990s and beyond.

Girl With Pen blog, which bridges feminist research and popular culture, a must read. By 40-year old writer Deborah Siegel, author of
Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild, a constructive report about generational conflicts in women's movement.

Two magazines started in the mid 1990s that defined Third Wave feminist sensibilities and continue to evolve today: Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture and
Bust Magazine, a less intellectual but worthy read, with special crafty focus.

Created on 02/03/2005 02:15 PM by carolsim
Updated on 03/08/2009 02:36 AM by paulakamen