Feminist Memoir Project

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a professor of English and women's studies at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Ann Snitow is a professor of literature and gender studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in New York City.9/26/14- will be a lightning po title. will email you when proof is accepted

• Preface to the 2007 editionA feminist memoir project / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann SnitowOur gang of four: friendship and women's liberation / Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi WeissteinComing of age: civil rights and feminism / Barbara W. EmersonA year of living dangerously: 1968 / Dana DensmoreOutlaw women: chapters from a feminist memoir-in-progress / Roxanne DunbarHistory makes us, we make history / Elizabeth (Betita) MartinezAmbivalence about feminism / Barbara EpsteinHome before sundown / Anselma Dell'OlioOn the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a strictly personal perspective / Jo FreemanTwo letters from the Women's Liberation Movement / Carol HanischCatching the fire / Rosalyn Fraad BaxandallPrimary and secondary contradictions in Seattle: 1967-1969 / Barbara WinslowIn the wilderness of one's inner self: living feminism / Lourdes BeneriaClenched fist, open heart / Alice J. WolfsonA marriage disagreement, or Marriage by other means / Alix Kates ShulmanOn Becoming a feminist/lawyer / Nadine Taub"For people hear us singing, 'Bread and roses! Bread and roses!'" / Meredith TaxWe called ourselves sisters / Priscilla LongA fem's feminist history / Joan NestleDays of celebration and resistance: the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi WeissteinThe art of getting to equal / Nancy SperoWhat feminism means to me / Vivian GornickSisterhood in Black and White / Barbara OmoladeThe buried Yes / Minne Bruce PrattAn activist love story / Paula Allen and Eve EnslerTo Hell and back: on the road with Black feminism in the 1960s & 1970s / Michele Wallace? Skirting / Yvonne Rainer"Ain't I a feminist?": re-forming the circle / Shirley Geok-lin LimSome responses (a note from RBD and AS)Notes from the aftermath / AnnJanette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite"Feisty characters" and "Other people's causes": memories of White racism and U.S. feminism / Barbara SmithMy memoir problem / Ellen WillisSisters in struggle: a belated response / Beverly Guy-SheftallHow many lives are here? / Kate Millett

"The Feminist Memoir Project has put back in the historical record dozens of urgent voices that were on the verge of being lost forever. What a fascinating, vital-and vitally important book." - Katha Pollitt