Subject to Debate Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture

Name: Subject to Debate Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
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ISBN: 9780679783435

ISBN-10: 0679783431

ISBN-13: 9780679783435

Edition: 2001

Authors: Katha Pollitt

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Brief essays - topical yet enduring - from Katha Pollitt's column for The Nation.

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/6/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.18" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Rory Dicker is Assistant Professor of English at Westminster College. She lives in Columbia, Missouri. Alison Piepmeier is Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies at Vanderbilt University. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Katha Pollitt is a poet, essayist, and columnist for 'The Nation.' Jennifer Baumgardner writes for various magazines, including 'Ms,' 'Harper's,' and 'Elle,' and is the coauthor (with Amy Richards) of 'Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future.'

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Feminism at the Millennium
Clara Zetkin Avenue	p. 3
National Tulip Conversation	p. 7
The Last President	p. 11
Communitarianism, No	p. 14
Single-Sex Sexism	p. 17
Opinionated Women	p. 21
"Sex in America"	p. 24
School Prayer? By All Means	p. 28
Beggar's Opera	p. 31
Deadbeat Dads: A Modest Proposal	p. 35
Affirmative Action Begins at Home	p. 39
We Are All Marcia Clark	p. 42
Victoria's Secret	p. 45
Opportunity Knocked	p. 48
Is Marriage Link a Bran Muffin?	p. 51
1945	p. 55
Of Grass and Guns	p. 59
Swish, Thwack, Boo	p. 62
Facts and Pundits	p. 66
The O.J. Verdict: While You Were Sleeping	p. 70
Million Man Mirage	p. 73
Where Are the Women We Voted For?	p. 77
Kept Illusions	p. 80
The Violence of Ordinary Life	p. 83
No God, No Master	p. 87
Village Idiocy	p. 91
French Lessons	p. 95
Sweet Swan of Avon	p. 99
Take Back the Right	p. 102
For Whom the Ball Rolls	p. 105
Gay Marriage? Don't Say I Didn't Warn You	p. 109
Pomolotov Cocktail	p. 113
Adoption Fantasy	p. 117
Utopia, Limited	p. 120
The Strange Death of Liberal America	p. 124
Of Toes and Men	p. 128
We Were Wrong: Why I'm Not Voting for Clinton	p. 132
First Wives, Last Laugh	p. 136
Kissing and Telling	p. 140
No Vote for Clinton? Readers Bite Back	p. 144
Let Them Eat Numbers	p. 148
Born Again vs. Porn Again	p. 152
Can This Marriage Be Saved?	p. 156
Paula Jones, Class Act?	p. 160
Secrets and Lies	p. 164
Go Figure	p. 168
Heaven Can Wait	p. 172
When I'm Sixty-four	p. 176
No Sex, Please. We're Killers	p. 179
About Race: Can We Talk?	p. 183
Get Thee Behind Me, Disney	p. 186
Honk If You Like Art	p. 190
Thoroughly Modern Di	p. 194
Free Willie	p. 197
Hello, Columbus	p. 201
Women and Children First	p. 205
Madchen in Uniform	p. 209
Vouching Toward Bethlehem	p. 213
Race and Gender and Class, Oh My!	p. 216
School's Out	p. 220
Far From Chile?	p. 223
Masterpiece Theater	p. 226
September Thong	p. 230
Great Big Baskets of Dirty Linen	p. 234
Poverty: Fudging the Numbers	p. 238
Murder, Inc	p. 242
Precious Bodily Fluids	p. 246
Make Love, Not War	p. 250
The People vs. Larry Flynt?	p. 253
Let Them Sell Lemonade	p. 257
Women's Rights: As the World Turns	p. 260
A Bronx Tale	p. 264
War and Memory	p. 268
Natural Born Killers	p. 271
No Males Need Apply?	p. 275
Weird Science	p. 279
Polymaritally Perverse	p. 283
Catholic Bashing?	p. 287
Home Discomforts	p. 291
The Death Penalty in Theory and Practice	p. 294
Regrets Only	p. 298
Progressive Presidential Politics (continued)	p. 302
Abortion History 101	p. 306
Underground Against the Taliban	p. 310
Moms to NRA: Grow Up!	p. 314
The Politics of Personal Responsibility	p. 318
Freedom from Religion, si!	p. 321
Social Pseudoscience	p. 324
Notes	p. 329
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