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Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism
Reasonable Creatures Essays on Women and Feminism Author:Katha Pollitt She writes about sex, children's books, the media, breast implants, the mind of an antiabortionist. She invokes Moby Dick and Gilligan's Island, Lorena Bobbitt and Lysistrata ("the original woman's strike-for-peace-nik"). For more than a decade, in her wonderfully provocative, wittily astute, graceful and gutsy pieces in Th... more »e Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, she has taken the strongest positions on the thorniest moral issues and the most controversial events, from date rape to surrogate motherhood, to violence against women, to the Anita Hill hearings, to fetal rights and mothers' "wrongs."
The best of her pieces are gathered here:
That survey: being wedded is not always bliss
Children of choice
Why we read: canon to the right of me
Violence in a man's world
Why I hate "family values"
Marooned on Gilligan's Island: are women morally superior to men?
Contracts and apple pie: The strange case of Baby M
Naming and blaming: media goes Wilding in Palm Beach
Checkbook maternity: when is a mother not a mother?
Hot flash
Who's afraid of Hilary Clinton?
The romantic climacteric
Our right-to-lifer: the mind of an antiabortionist