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A politically incorrect feminist, creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women, Phyllis Chesler

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A politically incorrect feminist

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Phyllis Chesler

creating a movement with bitches, lunatics, dykes, prodigies, warriors, and wonder women

"A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modern-day feminism Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1967-1972 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and sit-ins for abortion and equal rights, famously took over offices and buildings, and pioneered high profile Speak-outs. They began the first-ever national and international public conversations about birth control and abortion, sexual harassment, violence against women, female orgasm, and a woman's right to kill in self-defense. Now, Chesler has juicy stories to tell. The feminist movement has changed over the years, but Chesler knew some of its first pioneers, including Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett, and Andrea Dworkin. These women were fierce forces of nature, smoldering figures of sin and soul, rock stars and action heroes in real life. Some had been viewed as whores, witches, and madwomen, but were changing the world and becoming major players in history. In Memoir of a Politically Incorrect Feminist, Chesler gets chatty while introducing the reader to some of feminism's major players and world-changers"--, Provided by publisher

Growing up as a girl in America -- Am I dreaming or am I awake? Feminist paradise rising -- Raising my consciousness and pioneering women's studies -- This first-generation American keynotes a historic speak-out on rape and joins a class-action lawsuit -- A psychiatrist sues me for $10 million, I publish Women and Madness, and I flee the country -- Fame hits hard, thousands of letters arrive, and I marry again -- Feminism becomes international -- Feminists and the Weather Underground and Lesbian Land on the West Coast -- The pornography wars commence, and I host the first feminist Passover seder in America -- Do women of color have the right to kill white male rapists in self-defense? Do lesbians have the right to custody of their children? -- Our sorely afflicted feminist geniuses -- Rape at the UN and an unexpected betrayal by the inveterate scene-stealer -- Whistleblowing and the inevitable blowback -- Mothers on trial and on the run -- I travel the wide world, pray at the Western Wall, and come to the aid of lesbian-feminists under siege in Mississippi -- The end of an era and saying goodbye to sister soldiers, brave and true, near and dear