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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10039457060X
ISBN-139780394570600
eBay Product ID (ePID)23038321636
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Book TitleReasonable Creatures : Feminism and Society in American Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1994
TopicFeminism & Feminist Theory, Sociology / General, Essays & Narratives
GenreCooking, Social Science
AuthorKatha Pollitt
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight14.8 Oz
Item Length8.7 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN93-047492
Dewey Edition20
Reviews"Katha Pollitt writes the liveliest, smartest general essays on women's issues today. (They're awfully good on America, too.) Relief -- that someone is finally saying it -- is one of the many pleasures that Pollitt invariably gives me. Brave. funny, commonsensical, morally right on, she's almost always right." -- Susan Sontag "Katha Pollitt's essays are so brilliant that I had to rub my eves from time to time as I read them. When she finishes with a subject, there really isn't anything more to say -- except, 'Thanks, Katha, for clearing that up!'" -- Barbara Ehrenreich She asks "Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?," considers the Smurfette Principle and explains why she hates "Family Values." She takes aim at nineteen targets in all. Her pieces delight by their language -- the mastery that won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her first book of poem -- and her refusal, ever, to be ponderous. "A thoughtful and brilliant woman ... These essays are a joy to read." -- alice Adams "It is a great pleasure to have this gathering oF' Katha Pollitt's work. Her intelligence is always relentless, always bracing, while always; maintaining a wonderful lightness. She is the gin-and-Campari of the women's movement." -- Mary Gordon "Lucid, gutsy, funny and just, Katha Pollitt is easily my favorite essayist at work today. I read everything she writes and consider this collection a treasure." -- Phyllis Rose "Katha Pollitt's essays are fine, fierce, well-informed and mind-changing. Anyone would be proud to have her good head and good heart on their side." -- Gloria Steinem
Dewey Decimal305.42/0973
SynopsisShe 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 The 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.
LC Classification NumberHN18.P655 1994
