Notes From the Second Year: Major Writings of the Radical Feminists
Date: 1970
Editor: Shulamith Firestone
Staple bound newsprint. 126pp. Photo-illustrated.
The sequel to “Notes from the First Year”, the first theoretical journal of the modern Women’s Liberation Movement, published by Shulamith Firestone in June 1968.
The anthology is organized into three sections: Women’s Experience; Theories of Radical Feminism; and Founding a Radical Feminist Movement. Subsections include: The Left Debate; Consciousness-Raising; Organizing; and Manifestoes.
Notable contributions include:
Kate Millett’s essay “Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution.” This essay was foundational to Millett’s first book, “Sexual Politics.” It also influenced the manifesto of the Redstockings, a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis in New York City in 1969.
Anne Koedt’s essay, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”
“Radical Feminism” by Ti-Grace Atkinson (Atkinson founded the October 17th Movement, a group which later became THE FEMINISTS)
“Power as a Function of the Group” by Pamela Kearon (also a member of THE FEMINISTS)
“The Personal is Political” by Carol Hanisch, an essay that marked the first use of the phrase
“A Critique of the Miss America Pageant” by Carol Hanisch, based on her protest at the 1968 Miss America contest during which she and three other women disrupted the proceedings by hanging a women’s liberation banner over the balcony.
Condition: Newsprint pages and edges of wrappers slightly age-toned. Very light wear to edges. Bottom corner of last 2 pages creased.
Notes From the Second Year: Major Writings of the Radical Feminists
Date: 1970
Editor: Shulamith Firestone
Staple bound newsprint. 126pp. Photo-illustrated.
The sequel to “Notes from the First Year”, the first theoretical journal of the modern Women’s Liberation Movement, published by Shulamith Firestone in June 1968.
The anthology is organized into three sections: Women’s Experience; Theories of Radical Feminism; and Founding a Radical Feminist Movement. Subsections include: The Left Debate; Consciousness-Raising; Organizing; and Manifestoes.
Notable contributions include:
Kate Millett’s essay “Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution.” This essay was foundational to Millett’s first book, “Sexual Politics.” It also influenced the manifesto of the Redstockings, a radical feminist group founded by Shulamith Firestone and Ellen Willis in New York City in 1969.
Anne Koedt’s essay, “The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm”
“Radical Feminism” by Ti-Grace Atkinson (Atkinson founded the October 17th Movement, a group which later became THE FEMINISTS)
“Power as a Function of the Group” by Pamela Kearon (also a member of THE FEMINISTS)
“The Personal is Political” by Carol Hanisch, an essay that marked the first use of the phrase
“A Critique of the Miss America Pageant” by Carol Hanisch, based on her protest at the 1968 Miss America contest during which she and three other women disrupted the proceedings by hanging a women’s liberation banner over the balcony.
Condition: Newsprint pages and edges of wrappers slightly age-toned. Very light wear to edges. Bottom corner of last 2 pages creased.
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