Item #237630 Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism. Katha Pollitt.

Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism

Alfred A. Knopf, September 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. Used - Very Good / Very Good. Item #237630
ISBN: 039457060X

She writes about sex, children's books, the media, breast implants, the mind of an antiabortionist. She invokes Moby Dick and Gilligan's Island, Lorna Bobbitt and Lysistrata ("the original woman's strike-for-peace-nik"). For more than a decade, in her wonderfully provocative, wittily astute, graceful and gutsy pieces in The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, she has taken the strongest positions on the thorniest moral issues and the most controversial events, from date rape to surrogate motherhood, to violence against women, to the Anita Hill hearings, to fetal rights and mothers' "wrongs." She asks "Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?, " considers the Smurfette Principle and explains why she hates "Family Values." She takes aim at nineteen targets in all. Her pieces delight by their language - the mastery that won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her first book of poems - and her refusal, ever, to be ponderous.

She writes about sex, children's books, the media, breast implants, the mind of an antiabortionist. She invokes Moby Dick and Gilligan's Island, Lorena Bobbitt and Lysistrata ('the original woman's strike-for-peace-nik'). For more than a decade, in her wonderfully provocative, wittily astute, graceful and gutsy pieces in The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, she has taken the strongest positions on the thorniest moral issues and the most controversial events, from date rape to surrogate motherhood, to violence against women, to the Anita Hill hearings, to fetal rights and mothers' 'wrongs.'
The best of her pieces are gathered here. First/first U.S. in dustjacket. Grey cloth spine with gold lettering & grey paper covered boards. Tight binding. Review copy with review slip (torn along one end). It appears none of the wording is lost from tear, though the ISBN is cut off) Also author photo in very good+/fine condition laid in. At bottom of photo: 'This photograph may be used or reproduced only in connection with a review or promotion of the Knopf edition of Reasonable Creatures'.

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