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PUBLIC WOMEN, PUBLIC WORDS; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction Splitting Differences: Conceiving of American Feminism; Part I The Second Wave; I. Liberal Feminism, Women''s Liberation, and the Emergence of Radical Feminism; [1]"The Problem That Has No Name" (1963); [2]"Statement of Purpose" (1967); [3]"To the Women of the Left" (1967); [4]"Women and the Radical Movement" (1968); [5]"Redstockings Manifesto" (1969); [6]"A Political Organization to Annihilate Sex Roles" (1969); [7]"Politics of the Ego: A Manifesto" (1969); [8] "Statement of Purpose" (1972); [9]"Preamble" (1969)

[10]"This Isn''t One of Those Blonds That Anyone Can Pick Up in a Supermarket" (1971 )[11]"Founding Editorial" (1969); [12]"Founding Editorial" (1970); [13]"Goodbye to All That" (1970); [14]"Who We Are" (1970); [15]"What the Counter-Culture Isn''t Just" (1970); [16]"Specific Characteristics of Women''s Liberation" (1970); [17]"A Statement About Female Liberation" (1971); [18]"About Us" (1970); [19]"Who We Are" (1972); [20]"A Personal Report from Ms." (1972); II. Black Feminism; [21]"The Negro Woman in the Quest for Equality" (1964); [22]"Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female" (1970)

[23]"Birth Control Pills and Black Children" (1968)[24]"Poor Black Women" (1968); [25]"Many Blacks Wary of ''Women''s Liberation'' Movement" (1970); [26]"What the Black Woman Thinks About Women''s Lib" (1971); [27]"A Black Feminist Statement" (1977); [28]"Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman" (1979); [29]"In Search of Our Mothers'' Gardens" (1974); [30]"Other Voices, Other Moods" (1979); III. Lesbian Identities and Critiques of Heterosexuality; [31]"The Woman-Identified Woman" (1970); [32]"Interview: Loving Another Woman" (1971); [33]"The Shape of Things to Come" (1972)

[34]"What Is a Lesbian?" (1977)[35]"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" (1980/1986); [36]"Speaking Out, Reaching Out" (1977-1985); [37]"The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm" (1970); [38]"Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power" (1978); [39]"Rape: The All-American Crime" (1971); [40]"Rape: An Act of Terror" (1971); [41]"Rape, Racism and the Myth of the Black Rapist" (1981) ; IV. The Personal Is Political: Some Second- Wave Issues; [42]"A Program for Feminist ''Consciousness Raising''" (1968); [43]"A Critique of the Miss America Protest" (1968); [44]"SCUM Manifesto" (1967)

[45]"Are Men Really the Enemy?" (1970)[46]"Man-Hating" (1970); [47]"Who Is Saying Men Are the Enemy?" (1970); [48]"Karate as Self-Defense for Women" (1970); [49]"Poems and Articles" (1969); "As I Sit Here Sharpening Pencils"; "Graveyard Meeting"; "Women Are Getting Together All Over the World"; "The Worst Thing That Ever Happened to Me"; [50]"The Politics of Housework" (1968/ 1970); [51]"The Shulmans'' Marriage Agreement" (1971); [52]"Child-Care for the Child" (1970); [53]"On Day Care" (1970); [54]"Welfare Is a Women''s Issue" (1972); [55]"The Male-Feasance of Health" (1970)

[56]"Are Our Doctors Pigs?" (1970)

This final volume in the Public Women, Public Words series focuses on what has come to be called the second wave of American feminism. It traces the resurgence of feminism in the late 1960s, reflects the unprecedented range of women''s issues taken up by feminists during the 1970s and beyond, and looks toward a third feminist wave for the new millennium.