Letters from a war zone /
The nonconformist and social commentator discusses her experiences as a woman and a battered wife, her life of demonstrating, organizing, and addressing other women and the government, and the current state of the women's movement.
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Brooklyn, New York :
Lawrence Hill Books,
[1993]
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Table of Contents:
- I. Take Back the Night. The Lie. The Night and Danger. Pornography and Grief
- II. Words. The Power of Words. A Woman Writer and Pornography. Susannah Cibber. Whose Press? Whose Freedom? Preface to the Paperback Edition of Our Blood. Nervous Interview. Loving Books: Male/Female/Feminist. Mourning Tennessee Williams. Wuthering Heights. Voyage in the Dark: Hers and Ours
- III. Take Back the Day. A Feminist Looks at Saudi Arabia. A Battered Wife Survives. A True and Commonplace Story. Biological Superiority: The World's Most Dangerous and Deadly Idea. Sexual Economics: The Terrible Truth. Look, Dick, Look. See Jane Blow It. Feminism: An Agenda. Margaret Papandreou: An American Feminist in Greece. I Want A Twenty-Four-Hour Truce During Which There Is No Rape. Violence Against Women: It Breaks the Heart, Also the Bones. Preface to the British Edition of Right-wing Women
- IV. The New Terrorism. Pornography: The New Terrorism. Why Pornography Matters to Feminists. Pornography's Part in Sexual Violence. The ACLU: Bait and Switch. Why So-Called Radical Men Love and Need Pornography. For Men, Freedom of Speech; For Women, Silence Please. Pornography and Male Supremacy. Women Lawyers and Pornography. Silence Means Dissent. Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality. Pornography Is A Civil Rights Issue. Letter from a War Zone
- Epilogue: Feminism Now
- Afterword: What Battery Really Is.