3. Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York, 1963).
4. Juliet Mitchell, ‘Women—The Longest Revolution’, New Left Review, November—December 1966, p. 18.
5. Ibid., pp. 36—7.
6. Evelyn Reed, Problems of Women’s Liberation: A Marxist Approach (New York, 1969).
7. Reich (op. cit.), pp. 153—269.
8. Tiger (op. cit.), pp. 110—11.
9. Kyril Tidmarsh, ‘The Right to do the Hardest Work’, The Times, 16.2.1967. See also Women in the Soviet Economy by T. Dodge (Baltimore, 1966).
10. Quoted in Towards a Female Liberation Movement by Beverly Jones and Judith Brown (New England Free Press), p. 2.
11. New Left Notes, August 1967.
12. Judi Bernstein, Peggy Morton, Lina Seese, Myrna Wood, Sisters, Brothers, Lovers…Listen…(New England Free Press), p. 7.
13. Soviety Weekly, 17 May 1969, p. 5.
14. Anonymous letter in New Left Notes, December 1967.
15. Marilyn Webb, ‘We Have a Common Enemy’, New Left Notes, 10 June 1968.
16. Jones and Brown (op. cit.), pp. 20—22.
17. Ibid., p. 37.
18. Anne Koedt, The Myth of Vaginal Orgasm (New England Free Press), p. 5.
19. Ibid.
20. Nancy Mann, Fucked-up in America (ibid.)
21. Julie Baumgold, ‘You’ve come a long way, Baby’, New York, 9 June 1969, p. 30.
22. Vivian Gornick, ‘The Next Great Moment in History is Theirs’, Village Voice, 27 November 1969.
23. Mention ought also to be made of the NJACC (vide supra ‘Work’, and Midge McKenzie’s Feminists, who produced the mimeographed Harpies Bizarre. Women’s Liberation Workshop has now expanded to five groups, while another group in Nottingham puts out a duplicate sheet called Socialist Woman, and another at Bristol, Enough is Enough. A conference at Oxford, 28 February to 1 March, drew five hundred participants, along with four hundred children and fifty menfolk.
24. Gloria Steinem, ‘The City Politic’, New York, 10 March 1969.
REVOLUTION
1. Anna Martin, The Married Working Woman, published by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, July 1911.
Among the poorer families especially, the mental superiority of the wife to the husband is very marked. The ceaseless fight these women wage in defence of their homes against all the forces of the industrial system, develops in them an alertness and an adaptability to which the men, deadened by laborious and uninspiring toil, can lay no claim.
2. Mrs Mary Chatterji was told by the Home Office that ‘it is considered that a wife should in general be prepared to make her home in her husband’s country’ (The Times, 3.2.1970).
3. Gingerbread, 35 Wellington Street, London WC2E 7BN, and Mothers-in-Action, 10 Lady Somerset Road, London NW5 (Sunday Times, 25.1.1970).
4. Diane Hart sought to launch a Petticoat Party in May 1969, when she inserted an advertisement in The Times which read ‘Ladies, don’t just sit there. If you are sick of castles in the air, sit in the House of Commons. Wanted, 630 ladies willing to gamble £500 each, fighting a constituency’. Needless to say no political party resulted. She stood for election herself and was duly defeated. Three American charmers formed a Pussycat League to express Pussycat Power, which would obtain universal sway by caresses and coddling (Sunday Mirror, 2.11.1969). No appreciable political or other results have ensued from this hardly novel technique.
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