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Marking its 15th anniversary, the feminist magazine presents a selection from the astonishing number of letters20,000 were elicited by the first issue in 1972received from its readers over the years. Some were never published, but all are now preserved in the archives of the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe. This selection, edited with commentary by historian Thom, is organized chronologically and in thematic groupings. Letters traditionally have been a major feature of the magazine, providing a lively forum for intensely personal expression on a range of concerns from sex, sexist language ("What's a Ms.?"), the revolution in the workplace and the debate over the Equal Rights Amendment. The readers who write are intellectually and emotionally engaged, some even resorting to verse and humor. As the collection celebrates the magazine, it also traces the "ongoing history of change" and discovery for modern American women.
Introduction by Gloria Steinem -- The Ms. Letters Collection -- a New Forum for a Lost Art by Mary Thom -- Sex: Whose Revolution Was it? -- Men: Love, Marriage, and Just Friends -- Parenting: Bringing up "Free" Children -- There's No Difference Between Mothers and Daughters -- Small and Momentous Changes in Everyday Life -- The Workplace Revolution -- Woman's Body, Woman's Mind -- Language: The Great "Personhole Cover" Debate -- Up Against the Institution -- You Can't Win Them All; Or, Critics (and Crackpots) Take on Ms. -- Milestones: Readers Live Fifteen Years of History. -- Afterword by Eva Moseley, Curator of Manuscripts of the Schlesinger Library.
edited by Mary Thom ; introduction by Gloria Steinem ; afterword by Eva Moseley.
The Cushing Library/Women & Gender Studies copy was acquired as part of The Arden Eversmeyer Collection.