81-7308
ISBN 0-399-50575-X
AACR2
First Perigee printing, 1981
Printed in the United States of America
C ontents
Preface
xi
1. Feminism, A rt, and My M other Sylvia
1
2. Renouncing Sexual “Equality”
10
3. Remembering the Witches
15
4. The Rape Atrocity and the Boy Next Door
22
5. The Sexual Politics of Fear and Courage
50
6. Redefining Nonviolence
66
7. Lesbian Pride
73
8. Our Blood: The Slavery of Women in Amerika
76
9. The Root Cause
96
Notes
113
FOR BARBARA DEMING
I suggest that if we are willing to confront our own
most seemingly personal angers, in their raw state,
and take upon ourselves the task of translating this
raw anger into the disciplined anger of the search
for change, we will find ourselves in a position to
speak much more persuasively to comrades about
the need to root out from all anger the spirit of
murder.
Barbara Deming, “On Anger”
Now, women do not ask half of a kingdom but
their rights, and they don’t get them. When she
comes to demand them, don’t you hear how sons
hiss their mothers like snakes, because they ask
for their rights; and can they ask for anything