In Our Time: Memoir of a Revolution (57 page)

17
Prashker’s expectations: Author’s interview with Betty Prashker, New York, July 7, 1996.

18
Lehmann-Haupt reviews:
The New York Times
, Aug. 5 and 6, 1970.

19
Millett on
Time
cover: Aug. 31, 1970.

20
Spinning out of control: See Kate Millett,
Flying
(New York: Knopf, 1974).

21
Feature in
Life:
Sept. 4, 1970.

22
Neatly typed page: photocopy in author’s possession.

23
“Rita Mae Brown did this”: Author’s interview with Martha Shelley, Oakland, by phone, Feb. 2, 1997.

24
“I never placed or wrote”: E-mail from Rita Mae Brown to author, July 23, 1999.

25
“Kate came in”: Author’s interview with Ellen Shumsky, New York, March 24, 1997.

26
“Kate looked like”: Author’s interview with Sidney Abbott, New York, Nov. 12, 1998.

27
Columbia panel: Shumsky; Abbott; Millett,
Flying
, pp. 14–17.

28
“bound to discredit her”:
Time
, Dec. 14, 1970.

29
Press conference:
The New York Times
, Dec. 18, 1970, p. 47; author’s interviews with Alexander, Bottini, March, Shumsky, Abbott.

30
“I was standing on a huge platform”: As quoted in Sara Davidson, “Foremothers,”
Esquire
, July 1973, p. 75.

31
Firestone and Morgan: Shulamith Firestone,
The Dialectic of Sex
(New York: Morrow, 1970); Robin Morgan, ed.,
Sisterhood Is Powerful
(New York: Random House, 1970).

32
Leonard’s group review:
The New York Times
, Oct. 29, 1970, p. 41; see also
NYT
, Nov. 6, 1970, p. 39.

33
Inner-movement disputes: Author’s interview with Robin Morgan, New York, Sept. 22, 1994.

34
WRC case: Author’s interview with Mary Catherine Kilday, Washington by phone, June 16, 1996; author’s interview with Alison Owings, San Francisco by E-mail, 1996; files of Alison Owings in author’s possession; author’s interview with Nancy Stanley, Washington by phone, April 24, 1996; author’s interview with Gladys Kessler, Washington by phone, Oct. 9, 1996.

35
NBC suit: Author’s interview with Marilyn Schultz, New York, Nov. 7, 1996; Gwenda Blair,
Almost Golden
(New York: Avon, 1989) pp. 213–215; files of Alison Owings.

36
Greer: Anne Coombs,
Sex and Anarchy: The Life and Death of the Sydney Push
(Australia: Penguin, 1996); Jonathon Green,
Days in the Life
(London: Heinemann, 1988); Marcia Cohen,
The Sisterhood
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988); Tom Wolfe,
The Purple Decades
(New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1982); author’s interview with Robert Stewart, New York, Oct. 22, 1996.

37
“Saucy Feminist”:
Life
, May 7, 1971.

38
Lehmann-Haupt review:
The New York Times
, April 20, 1971.

38
“Betty!” she boomed: Author’s interview with Joan Lader, New York, April 6, 1996.

40
Dreifus review: Claudia Dreifus, “The Selling of a Feminist,”
The Nation
, June 7, 1971.

41
Newsweek’s
“New Woman” cover story:
Newsweek
, Aug. 16, 1971.

42
A generational difference: see Judith Hennessee,
Betty Friedan: Her Life
(New York: Random House, 1999); Sydney Ladensohn Stern,
Gloria Steinem: Her Passions, Politics, and Mystique
(New York: Birch Lane, 1997); Carolyn G. Heilbrun:
The Education of a Woman: The Life of Gloria Steinem
(New York: Dial Press, 1995).

43
The Book: Betty Friedan,
The Feminine Mystique
(New York: Norton, 1963).

44
The Bunny story: Gloria Steinem, “A Bunny’s Tale,”
Show
, May and June, 1963.

45
Thought it best not to sit: Heilbrun, p. 191.

7. Full Moon Rising

1
“The media tried”: Judith Hennessee,
Betty Friedan: Her Life
(New York: Random House, 1999) p. 158.

2
“Jane” prospectus: In author’s possession.

3
Depending on your perspective: For a partisan’s view, see Mary Thom,
Inside Ms
. (New York: Holt, 1997).

4
Their voices got lost: See Anne Koedt, “Lesbianism and Feminism,” in Koedt, Levine, and Rapone, eds.,
Radical Feminism
(New York: Quadrangle, 1973).

5
The Furies:
Author’s interview with Charlotte Bunch, New York, March 16, 1997; author’s interview with Joan E. Biren, Washington by phone, March 15, 1999; bound volumes of
The Furies
in files of Charlotte Bunch; see also Alice Echols,
Daring to Be Bad
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989), pp. 220–241.

6
Jill Johnston in separatist camp: Author’s interview with Jill Johnston, New York, Nov. 4, 1997.

7
Our Bodies, Ourselves:
Author’s interviews with Nancy Hawley, Paula Doress, Vilunya Diskin, Ruth Bell, Joan Ditzion, Wendy Sanford, Jane Pincus, Judy Norsigian, Norma Swenson, Pamela Berger, in Cambridge, Mass., or by phone, May 19–Oct. 16, 1995; author’s interview with Alice Mayhew, New York by phone, Aug. 10, 1995;
Women and Their Bodies
(Boston: New England Free Press, 1970); Boston Women’s Health Course Collective,
Our Bodies, Ourselves
(Boston: New England Free Press, 1971); Boston Women’s Health Book Collective,
Our Bodies, Ourselves
(New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973, 1976, 1984, 1992).

8
Plexus:
Author’s interview with Becky Taber, Berkeley by phone, Feb. 5, 1998; Taber manuscript (undated) and copies of
Plexus
in files of Becky Taber; author’s interview with Toni Mester, Berkeley by phone, Feb. 19, 1998; author’s interview with Sandra Dasmann, Santa Cruz by phone, Feb. 23, 1998; author’s interview with KDF Reynolds, Oakland, by phone, March 11, 1998; author’s interview with Chris Orr, Berkeley by phone, March 14, 1998; author’s interview with April McMahon, Albany, Calif., by phone, March 18, 1998; E-mail from Nancy Stockwell, San Diego, Feb. 17–22, 1998.

9
Big Mama Rag:
Author’s interview with Chocolate Waters, New York, March 11, 1998; author’s interview with Carol Lease, Denver by phone, March 6, 1998; author’s interview with Linda Fowler, Denver by phone, March 19, 1998; author’s interview with Jackie St. Joan, Denver by phone, May 17, 1998.

8. “Rape Is a Political Crime Against Women”

1
Cell Sixteen ahead of the curve: Dana Densmore and Roxanne Dunbar, “More Slain Girls,”
No More Fun and Games
, No. 3, Nov. 1969.

2
Weapon of the patriarchy: Kate Millett,
Sexual Politics
(New York: Doubleday, 1970), p. 44.

3
Los Angeles feminists struck:
Everywoman
, Vol. 1, No. 7 (1970).

4
Sheehy’s piece: Gail Sheehy, “Nice Girls Don’t Get Into Trouble,”
New York
, Feb. 15, 1971.

5
My story: Susan Brownmiller, “On Goosing,”
The Village Voice
, April 15, 1971.

6
Wolcott’s letter:
The Village Voice
, May 13, 1971.

7
Greer slipped into a workshop: Partial transcript of NYRF Conference on Rape (mimeo) in files of Lilia Melani.

8
A former Black Nationalist: Partial transcript in files of Lilia Melani.

9
“Once I started reading”: Author’s interview with Florence Rush, New York, June 20, 1997.

10
“The sexual abuse of children”: Florence Rush, “The Sexual Abuse of Children: A Feminist Point of View,” Noreen Connell and Cassandra Wilson, eds.,
Rape: The First Sourcebook for Women
(New York: New American Library, 1974).

11
San Francisco Chronicle
gave extensive coverage: Diana E. H. Russell,
The Politics of Rape: The Victim’s Perspective
(New York: Stein and Day, 1975) pp. 11–12.

12
“My first impulse”: Author’s interview with Diana Russell, Berkeley by phone, June 23, 1997.

13
D.C. Rape Crisis Center: Author’s interview with Elizabethann O’Sullivan, Raleigh, N.C., by phone, June 25, 1997 and subsequent E-mail; author’s interview with Karen Kollias, Cleveland by phone, July 7, 1997.

14
Their script: “How to Start a Rape Crises Center” (unsigned mimeo, 1972) in author’s files.

15
O’Sullivan compiled a list: “Participating Projects” (unsigned mimeo, May 1976), in author’s files.

16
“Prostitution is a crime”: Susan Brownmiller, “Speaking Out on Prostitution,” Koedt, Levine, Rapone, eds.,
Radical Feminism
(New York: Quadrangle, 1973).

17
Weekend conference: Robin Reisig, “Sisterhood and Prostitution,”
The Village Voice
, Dec. 16, 1971, and subsequent replies; flyer and program in files of Barbara Mehrhof.

18
“If white groups do not realize”: Frances M. Beal, “Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female,” Robin Morgan, ed.,
Sisterhood Is Powerful
(New York: Random House, 1970).

19
National Black Feminist Organization: Author’s interview with Margaret Sloan, Oakland by phone, Oct. 18, 1997; author’s interview with Jane Galvin-Lewis, New York by phone, Sept. 28, 1997; author’s conversations by phone with Doris Wright, Deborah Singletary, Margo Jefferson.

20
NYRF-NBFO Joint Speak-out: Flyer in author’s possession.

21
Wallace kept her distance: Michele Wallace, “On the National Black Feminist Organization,” Kathie Sarachild, ed.,
Feminist Revolution
(New York: Random House, 1978); see also Michele Wallace,
Black Macho and the Myth of the Superwoman
(New York: Dial, 1979).

22
Michigan Women’s Task Force on Rape: Legislative proposals in author’s files.

23
Joan Little: James Reston, Jr., “The Joan Little Case,”
The New York Times Magazine
, April 6, 1975, and subsequent news coverage; Carol Lease, “Little Freed, Feminism Raped,”
Big Mama Rag
, Sept. 1975. Little’s first name was variously spelled Joan, Jo-ann, and Joanne in the feminist press.