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Susan Sontag criticizes, Norman Mailer, a notable writer and commentator on the women’s liberation movement, regarding his use of the term “lady writer.” She deems this label as patronizing, as it diminishes a writer's identity to their gender. This clip is from “Town Bloody Hall” (1979), a documentary film directed by Chris Hegedus and D.A.... See more
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The Women Who Refused to Choose Between Mothering and Artmaking
Jordan Troellerthereader.mitpress.mit.edu
Everyone who was a girl in the 1970s knows this feeling: running your hand along the spines of biographies in the school library, looking for any title at all about a woman, and winding up reading about…Clara Barton? Fine, okay, Clara Barton. If that’s all there is.
Claire Dederer • Monsters
These women, whose essential distinction of motherhood was the dominant note of their whole culture, were strikingly deficient in what we call "femininity."
Charlotte Gilman • Herland
overprotective mothers guilty of “Momism,”
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
It was not the first time that motherhood provided the female version of civic virtue.
Elaine Tyler May • Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act