The Dinner Party, 204, 228–31
Womanhouse exhibition, 8, 164
Chicana activists, 131
chick-lit, 287–88
child abuse, 238
childbirth, death in, 319
childcare, 319
childlessness, 37, 103
Chisholm, Shirley, 8, 9, 128, 206, 346, 347
Chodorow, Nancy, 241
Choi, Susan, Trust Exercise, 336–37
Chopin, Kate, The Awakening, 11
Christian Right, 267
Chu, Andrea Long, 313–14
CIA, 211, 294
Civil Rights Act of 1964, 136, 297
civil rights movement, 48, 54, 60, 61–62, 76, 92–98, 102, 120, 154–55, 176
Cixous, Hélène, 248
class hierarchy, 264
Clayton, Beth, 216
Clayton, Frances, 215, 216, 218
Clayton, Jonathan, 216, 220
Cleaver, Eldridge, Soul on Ice, 129
Cleaver, Kathleen, 130
Cliff, Michelle, 218, 254–55
climate change, 297, 320, 326–29
Clinton, Bill, 13, 14, 16–17, 293–94
administration of, 288
affair of, 288–89
Clinton, Hillary Rodham, 23–24, 29, 288, 289, 341
accepts Democratic nomination in 2016, 346, 350
marriage of, 288
presidential election of 2016 and, 1–2, 4, 6–7
schooling of, 12–19
What Happened, 18
Close, Glenn, 286
CNN, 345
Code Pink: Women for Peace, 295–96
Cohn, Roy, 166, 269
Cold War, 174
Colette, 157, 158, 303–4
Collingwood, Charles, 74
Collins, Gail, 127
Coltrane, John, 53
Combahee River Collective, 137, 216
Comfort, Alex, 97
comic books, 298–304
Commentary, 112, 179
Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 101
Conrad, Alfred, 87, 176, 177–81, 251, 253, 255
consciousness-raising, 22, 124, 127, 137, 141, 336
conservatives, 243–44, 266–70. See also backlash
ContraPoints, 333
Conway, Kellyanne, 340
Cook, Blanche, 220
Cortés, Hernán, 247
Cosby, Bill, Fatherhood, 286
Cosmopolitan, 109, 127
Cottom, Tressie McMillan, 319
Coulter, Ann, 319
counterculture, 103, 113–14
COVID-19, 5, 326, 345
Cox, Laverne, 312
credit, 8, 46
Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams, 221, 259
Crumb, R., 298
Crunk Feminist Collective, 333
Cruse, Howard, Gay Comix 1, 300
Cullors, Patrisse, 320–21
culture wars, 237, 267–69
cyberattacks, 320
cyber-feminism, 270
cyborgs, 270, 283, 284
D’Alesandro, Nancy Patricia, 341. See also Pelosi, Nancy
Dallas, Dick, “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free,” 100
Daly, Mary, 217
The Church and the Second Sex, 131
date rape, 285
dating websites, sexual harassment and, 309–10
daughterhood, 204–31
Daughters, Inc., 158–59
Daughters of Bilitis, 142
Davis, Angela, 92–93, 221
Davis, Miles, 53
Davis, Sasha, 155–56
D.C. Liberation, 127
Dean, Michelle, 177–78
deconstruction, 248, 270
Defense of Marriage Act, 288
democracy, 311
Democratic National Convention, 8, 207, 289
Democratic Republic of the Congo, war and torture victims in, 309
Derrida, Jacques, 248, 249, 270
Desclos, Anne, 147
destiny, anatomy and, 41–47, 231
Deutsch, Helene, 43–44, 47, 57, 68, 106
The Psychology of Women, 43–44
De Veaux, Alexis, 217–18
Dickinson, Emily, 10, 89, 158, 184, 228
Didion, Joan, 66–67, 103, 110, 114–18, 158, 285
“John Wayne: A Love Song,” 115
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” 115–18
“The Women’s Movement,” 158
difference feminism, 241–42
Dillard, Annie, 328
Dinnerstein, Dorothy, 241
di Prima, Diane, 29, 45, 49–51, 62, 63, 66, 67, 92, 128
immigration and, 49, 63–64
marriage and, 50
Memoirs of a Beatnik, 49–50
Recollections of My Life as a Woman, 50
divorce
in fiction of the seventies, 164
Hansberry and, 61
Morrison and, 154
Plath and, 75
Sheldon and, 188
Dodge, Harry, 315–16
domesticity, 40, 57, 60–61, 68, 79–80, 88, 91, 136, 163, 176, 195, 342
Pelosi and, 342
Plath and, 79
Rich and, 88–91
domestic violence, 94, 153, 238, 262, 263–64, 308, 309
Donegan, Moira, 336
“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” 288
“double consciousness,” 322–24
Doubleday, 139
Dowd, Maureen, 289
drag, 274
drug overdose deaths, 320
Du Bois, W. E. B., 55, 322
Duncan, Robert, 120, 122–23
“Santa Cruz Propositions,” 123
DuPlessis, Rachel Blau, 138
Durkheim, Émile, Suicide, 167
Dworkin, Andrea, 213, 238–44, 262, 325
death of, 318
Intercourse, 240–41
Last Days at Hot Slit, 244
lesbianism and, 239
marriage and, 239
Pornography: Men Possessing Women, 240
dystopias, 176, 181, 187–88, 195–97, 203, 267, 326–29. See also speculative fiction and poetry
ecofeminism, 270, 328–29
ecological disaster, 320. See also climate change
Edelman, Marian Wright, 335
education, 16, 92, 246, 295, 297–98, 311, 322, 338
equal opportunity in, 135, 136, 311
femininity and, 42–43, 68, 106
feminist, 314, 316–17
feminization of poverty and, 19
of girls, 19, 23, 297–98
higher education, 19, 23, 92, 140, 338
patriarchy and, 311
race and, 58, 257–58 (see also Brown v. Board of Education)
sex education, 243
Title IX and, 8, 136, 205
white monopoly over, 257–58
women’s rights and, 44
Education Amendment Act, Title IX, 8, 136, 205
the eighties, 4, 106–7, 235–64
feminist theory and, 269–76
identity politics and, 235–64
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 73–74
Eisenhower, Mamie, 73–74
elder care, 319
Electoral College, 5–6
electric shock therapy, 166
Eliot, George, Middlemarch, 111
Eliot, T. S., 87–88
“Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 88
Waste Land, 87–88
Ellis, Havelock, 41
Ellison, Ralph, 54
Invisible Man, 54
EMILY’s List, 296
employment, 135, 246, 267
empowerment, 219
England, Lynndie, 294–95
Engler, Lilly, 184
Enovid, 74–75
Ensler, Eve, 308–11
The Apology, 310
marriage and, 308
The Vagina Monologues, 308–11, 311–12
entertainment, backlash and, 286
environmental campaigns, 297
Epstein, Jeffrey, 336
Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 8
equality, 175, 337–38
equality feminism, 241–42
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), 8, 135–36, 205, 206, 212, 214, 215, 235
Erdrich, Louise, 328
eroticism, 8, 43, 44–46, 61, 75, 109–10, 141, 144, 147, 159, 219, 237, 242–43, 266, 304, 315. See also sexuality
Carson and, 276, 282
Kraus and, 282
Lorde and, 219–20
pro-sex feminism and, 240, 242–43
Rich and, 184–86
Esquire, 105–6, 207
essentialism, 106–7, 231, 237, 311
ethnic identity politics, 244–49
eurocentrism, 215
evangelicals, 296
Evans, Sara, 123
Evers, Medgar, 95
Fair Fight Action, 339
“fake news,” 320
Faludi, Susan, Backlash, 266–67
Falwell, Jerry, 268, 296
“family values,” 265
Farber, Leslie, 177
“He Said, She Said,” 179–80
Farnham, Marynia, 42, 44, 47, 57, 68
Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, 68
Fatal Attraction, 286, 289
Fateman, Johanna, 244
Faulkner, William, 154
FBI, 56, 212–13
Feinberg, Leslie
Stone Butch Blues, 282
Transgender Liberation, 282
Feinstein, Dianne, 260
“female chauvinism,” 207
female genital mutilation, 217, 309
femicide, 238
“feminazis,” 289
feminine beauty, white-defined ideals of, 154–55
femininity, 145–46, 189, 231, 237, 242, 282, 316
aging and, 147–48
education and, 42–43, 68, 106
in fifties, 41–47
oppression and, 147–49
performance of, 108–9, 147–48, 192–93, 194
feminism, 152, 214, 298
academia and, 9–10, 23–24, 235–36, 265–76
anti-porn feminism, 238–44
Black feminism, 100, 262–63, 264, 320–26
Black women and, 208–9, 218–19
commodification of, 289
conscious-raising and, 335–44
cyber-feminism, 270
demonized by Moral Majority, 296
difference feminism, 241–42
as a “dirty word,” 235
ecofeminism, 270, 328–29
in entertainment, 236
equality feminism, 241–42
“feminism without borders,” 311
first-wave, 138
French feminism, 248
gay rights and, 269
headlining, 332–35
humanities and, 10
identity politics and, 284
as Merriam-Webster word of the year 2017, 337
metaphors of, 137–38
as not merely a white movement, 2, 206
popular culture and, 20–21, 236, 285–86
post-feminism, 19, 235–36, 260, 267
postmodernism and, 266, 281–84
poststructuralism and, 237–38, 265–66, 270, 284
pro-sex feminism, 242–43
“racist feminism,” 218–19
renewed popularity of, 20
resurgence of, 318–44
second-wave, 7, 26, 125–32, 138, 176, 204, 215, 237, 304, 318
in seventies, 7–12, 18–19, 179–80
targeted in culture wars, 267–69
third-wave, 260, 267
“transnational feminism,” 311
“waves” of, 3, 138
white feminism, 215, 217, 218–19, 262–63, 264
who owns feminism? 285–90
“without borders,” 311
“feminist Golden Age” of television, 20–22
feminist literary criticism, 139–40
feminist militancy, 127, 178
feminist multiculturalism, 248–49
feminist realist fiction, 152–64. See also specific writers
feminist sci-fi, 188
feminist studies, 319
feminist theory, 269–76. See also specific theorists
Ferrante, Elena, 318
Ferraro, Geraldine, 236, 346
Fey, Tina, 20
Fiedler, Leslie, 114
Fielding, Helen, Bridget Jones’s Diary, 287–88
the fifties, 29–69, 106
domesticity of, 176 (see also domesticity)
end of, 73–75, 179
femininity in, 41–47, 46–47
ideology of, 84
marriage in, 36–40, 179–80
reproductive rights in, 46
sexuality in, 41–47
Figes, Eva, Patriarchal Attitudes, 144
Finley, Karen, 268
Firestone, Shulamith, 124, 131, 231
The Dialectic of Sex, 140
Fisher, Eddie, 56
Fitzgerald, Ella, 54
The Floating Bear, 50
Floyd, George, 321
Fonda, Jane, 309
Ford, Betty, 213
Ford, Christine Blasey, 337
Fornes, Irene, 112
Foucault, Michel, 270
Fourteenth Amendment, 136
Fraiman, Susan, 315
Freedom magazine, 55–56
Freeman, Jo (“Joreen”), “Trashing,” 212
free speech, 219, 268
Free Speech movement, 120, 130
French, Marilyn, 138, 152–64, 153
death of, 318
The Women’s Room, 163–64
French feminism, 248
Freud, Sigmund, 41, 106, 157, 158, 241
Freudianism, 41–43, 46, 47, 68, 157–58
homosexuality and, 159
lesbians and, 159
Friday, Nancy, My Secret Garden, 8
Friedan, Betty, 61, 66–69, 142, 144, 206, 211, 290
death of, 318
The Feminine Mystique, 69, 75, 168
“feminist” mystique and, 235–36
Steinem and, 206–7, 212
Friedman, Vanessa, 346
Gardner, Isabella, 30
Garner, Margaret, 257
Garza, Alicia, 320–21
Gay, Roxane, 333
gay avant-garde, 269
gay liberation movement, 131, 141, 219–20, 269–76, 298. See also marriage equality
gay literary canon, 272
gay marriage, legalization of, 297
gay men, targeted in culture wars, 267–69
Gay Pride Day, 275
gay rights, 214. See also gay liberation movement
feminism and, 269
women’s rights and, 265–66, 275
gay separatism, 215
gender
gender fluidity, 314
performance of, 274
as social construction, 274
gender roles, vs. anatomical sex, 140
gender theory, 266
Genet, Jean, 139, 140
genre-blurring, 113
Gentleman Jack, 312
Georgia, 267–68, 339–40
Ghalib, 177
Giddings, Paula, 259
Gilbert, Sandra M., 229–30
The Madwoman in the Attic, 4, 7, 164, 227–30
“The Madwoman in the Attic” course, 10–12
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 11–12, 60
Gillibrand, Kirsten, 20
Gilligan, Carol, 241, 311
Why Does Patriarchy Persist? 311
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins, 187
Herland, 187, 194–95
“The Yellow Wallpaper,” 11, 187
Ginsberg, Allen, 67
“Howl,” 48–49
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 8
Giovanni, Nikki, 120
Gitlin, Todd, 119
Glamour, 314
glass c
eilings, 9, 19, 345–52
Godard, Jean-Luc, 177
Goldberg, Michelle, 334
Goldberg, Whoopi, 309
Goldman, Ronald, 261–62
Goldwater, Barry, 13, 25
Gordon, Mary, 210
Gore, Al, 293–94
Gorman, Amanda, 353
Gornick, Vivian, 204
“Why Women Fear Success,” 206
Grable, Betty, 13, 37
Graham, Ellen, 228
graphic novels, 298–304
Great Migration, 52
Greer, Germaine, 314
The Female Eunuch, 144
Griffin, Susan, 221
Griswold v. Connecticut, 103
Guantánamo Bay, prison at, 294
The Guardian, 169–70
Gubar, Susan
The Madwoman in the Attic, 4, 7, 164, 227–30
“The Madwoman in the Attic” course, 10–12
The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, 11–12, 60
Guerrilla Girls, 236
Hacker, Marilyn, 75
Hall, Radclyffe, The Well of Loneliness, 158–59
Handler, Ruth, 67
The Handmaid’s Tale (TV show), 20–22
Hanisch, Carol, 211
Hanna, Kathleen, “Riot Grrrl Manifesto,” 281
Hansberry, Carl A., 58
Hansberry, Lorraine, 29, 54–62, 66, 67, 75, 95
divorce and, 61
“Flag from a Kitchenette Window, 54
Les Blancs, 61
marriage and, 56
“The Negro Writer and His Roots,” 60
A Raisin in the Sun, 54, 57–60
“The Sign in Jenny Reed’s Window,” 61
The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window, 61
Simone and, 95, 101
Hansberry, Nannie, 58
Haraway, Donna, 270, 283
“A Cyborg Manifesto,” 284
Hardwick, Elizabeth, 144, 178
Hardwick, Michael, 268
Harjo, Joy, 328
Harlem Renaissance, 209, 325
Harris, Donald, 347–48
Harris, Kamala, 4, 345–53
Harris, Maya, 348
Harris, Shyamala, 347–48
Haskell, Molly, 1
hate crimes, 297, 320
Hayden, Casey, 128–29
HBCUs (historically black colleges and universities), 335
Heap, Jane, 304
Hefner, Hugh, 67, 104, 105, 206
Heilbrun, Carolyn, 112, 213, 228, 318–19
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, 200
Helen of Troy, 174
Helms, Jesse, 268–69
Hemingway, Ernest, 264
Herz, Alice, 119
Hester, Rita, 284
heteronormativity, 270
heterosexuality, 149, 179, 180, 237, 240
compulsory, 183, 184, 186, 266, 274
in fiction of the seventies, 153
hostility toward, 242
higher education, 19, 23, 92, 140, 338. See also academia
democratization of, 338
humanities in, 10, 319
Hill, Anita, 259–61, 266, 336, 337
“HIS AND HER time,” 36–40
Hitchcock, Alfred, 197–98
The Hite Report, 8
HIV, 236–37, 267
Hochschild, Arlie, The Second Shift, 319
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