The Feminist Memoir Project

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a professor of English and women's studies at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.Ann Snitow is a professor of literature and gender studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in New York City.9/26/14- will be a lightning po title. will email you when proof is accepted

The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. This work describes what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation.

Preface to the 2007 edition A feminist memoir project / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow Our gang of four: friendship and women's liberation / Amy Kesselman with Heather Booth, Vivian Rothstein, and Naomi Weisstein Coming of age: civil rights and feminism / Barbara W. Emerson A year of living dangerously: 1968 / Dana Densmore Outlaw women: chapters from a feminist memoir-in-progress / Roxanne Dunbar History makes us, we make history / Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez Ambivalence about feminism / Barbara Epstein Home before sundown / Anselma Dell'Olio On the origins of the Women's Liberation Movement from a strictly personal perspective / Jo Freeman Two letters from the Women's Liberation Movement / Carol Hanisch Catching the fire / Rosalyn Fraad Baxandall Primary and secondary contradictions in Seattle: 1967-1969 / Barbara Winslow In the wilderness of one's inner self: living feminism / Lourdes Beneria Clenched fist, open heart / Alice J. Wolfson A marriage disagreement, or Marriage by other means / Alix Kates Shulman On Becoming a feminist/lawyer / Nadine Taub "For people hear us singing, 'Bread and roses! Bread and roses!'" / Meredith Tax We called ourselves sisters / Priscilla Long A fem's feminist history / Joan Nestle Days of celebration and resistance: the Chicago Women's Liberation Rock Band, 1970-1973 / Naomi Weisstein The art of getting to equal / Nancy Spero What feminism means to me / Vivian Gornick Sisterhood in Black and White / Barbara Omolade The buried Yes / Minne Bruce Pratt An activist love story / Paula Allen and Eve Ensler To Hell and back: on the road with Black feminism in the 1960s & 1970s / Michele Wallace? Skirting / Yvonne Rainer "Ain't I a feminist?": re-forming the circle / Shirley Geok-lin Lim Some responses (a note from RBD and AS) Notes from the aftermath / AnnJanette Rosga and Meg Satterthwaite "Feisty characters" and "Other people's causes": memories of White racism and U.S. feminism / Barbara Smith My memoir problem / Ellen Willis Sisters in struggle: a belated response / Beverly Guy-Sheftall How many lives are here? / Kate Millett