Right-wing Women

women—now, again, always—whoever has political power or represents social order or exercises authoritarian rule—whatever they are called, whatever they call their political line—has women for

good; the Right, broadly construed, has women for good. Stasis

and cruelty will have triumphed over freedom. The freedom of

women from sex oppression either matters or it does not; it is either essential or it is not. Decide one more time.

Notes

1. T h e P r o m is e o f t h e U l t r a -R ig h t

1. M arilyn Monroe, in a dressing-room notebook, cited by Norman M ailer, M arilyn: A B iography (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1973), p. 17.

2. Terrence Des Pres, The S u rvivor: An A natomy o f Life in the

Death Camps (New York: Pocket Books, 1977), p. vi.

3. Leah Fritz, Thinking Like a Woman (Rifton, N . Y .: W in Books,

1975), p. 130.

4. Anita B ryant, Bless This House (New York: Bantam Books,

1976), p. 26.

5. Marabel Morgan, The Total Woman (New York: Pocket Books,

1975), p. 57.

6. Ruth Carter Stapleton, The Gift o f In ner H ealing (Waco, T ex.:

Word Books, Publisher, 1976), p. 32.

7. Ibid., p. 18.

8. Morgan, Total W oman, p. 8.

9. Ibid., p. 96.

10. Ibid., p. 60.

11. Ibid., p. 161.

12. Ibid., pp. 140-41.

13. Anita Bryant, M ine Eyes H ave Seen the Glory (Old Tappan,

N. J .: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1970), pp. 26-27.

14. Ibid., p. 84.

15. Bryant, Bless This H ouse, p. 42.

16. Bryant, M ine Eyesy p. 83.

17. Bryant, Bless This House, pp. 51-52.

18. “Battle Over Gay Rights, ” Newsweek, June 6, 1977, p. 20.

19. Phyllis Schlafly, The P ow er o f the P ositive Woman (New Rochelle, N . Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977), p. 89.

2. T he Po l it ic s o f In t e l l ig e n c e

1. Norman Mailer, Advertisements fo r M yself (New York: G. P.

Putnam’s Sons, Perigee Books, 1981), p. 433.

2. Edith Wharton, “The Touchstone, ” in Madame de Treymes and

Others (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1970), p. 12.

3. Carolina Maria de Jesus, Child o f the Dark: The Diary o f Carolina

M aria de Jesu s, trans. David St. Clair (New York: New American Library, 1962), p. 47.

4. Catharine A. MacKinnon, “Feminism, Marxism, Method and

the State: An Agenda for Theory, ” Signs: A Jou rn a l o f Women in

Culture and Society, Vol. 7, No. 3, Spring 1982.

5. De Jesus, Child o f the Dark, p. 29.

6. Florence Nightingale, Cassandra (Old Westbury, N . Y.: The