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Title: In Our Time : Memoir of a Revolution by Susan Brownmiller ISBN: 0-385-31831-6 Publisher: Delta Pub. Date: 07 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A excellent resource for women's history
Comment: Imagine a time when there was no such phrase as "sexual harassment" yet its practice went on unchecked, a time when there were no domestic violence shelters for battered women, no rape clinics for victims of sexual violence, a time when the classified ads were divided into columns for "Male" and "Female" jobs...
"In Our Time" is an excellent first hand account of Susan Brownmiller's experience of the women's movement. She has successfully integrated her own personal experience (as a journalist then as a scholarly writer) with that of her friends and enemies, the movers and shakers of the women's movement. Her work is infinitely readable and having both a scholarly reflection of the sequence of events coupled with her emotional account is riveting.
Two major things emerge from this book. First, like most movements the women's movement was intensely grass-roots with all its heated emotions and disorganization. Made up (with a few exceptions) of young women, initial efforts at organization suffered from awkward leadership and infighting. Second, nevertheless, the issues women were fighting for struck such a chord across America that eventually the movement was comprised of women from all races and backgrounds - resulting in the successful passage of important legislation.
Brownmiller's book would be an excellent addition to a women's history collection - one warning though, there are a ton of names of movement leaders peppered throughout the book and someone new to the history might be confused initially. A reading of a more scholarly book might be a good preface. Thanks Susan for a super book!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must-Read on Feminism
Comment: If you didn't participate in the women's movement during the 70s, In Our Time illuminates those heady days. For those of us who were there, it brings back the most intense memories - some of them hilarious and some downright painful. Brownmiller gives us an account of her own participation embedded in a more general history, written in a vivid prose style that carries the reader along like a river in spring flood. Yet despite the swift pace, the author never fails to provide clear explanations of the multitude of ideologies that clashed or came together under the rubric of feminism. This is an essential book for the historian. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand the inner dynamics of a political movement and the origins of ideas that are still changing the world.
Rating: 5
Summary: Born just enough too late
Comment: This was the most memorable book of my summer reading list. I loved it. Susan Brownmiller has thought carefully and insightfully about feminism's herstory. The little gems she recalls, like the (reluctant) appearance of 'feminist media stars' on particular television shows, grounds the larger story she is trying to tell. These little moments give the grander story that she is trying to tell a richness and an intensity that is unlike most histories (whether they are about feminism or any other movement).
I know that the patterns and shifts that Brownmiller describes could only have been identified and interpreted with the passage of time. Still, I left the book with a sadness because I was born just enough too late to enjoy the heady days of feminism that she recounts in these pages. I am grateful that she left me convinced it was worth continuing to fight in the (vapid) post-feminist age that we are supposed to be living in now. I shall return to her words when I need a refill of feminist energy.
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Title: The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America by Ruth Rosen ISBN: 0140097198 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation by Barbara Findlen ISBN: 1580050549 Publisher: Seal Press Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Against Our Will : Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller ISBN: 0449908208 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 11 May, 1993 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, Anna Quindlen ISBN: 0393322572 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: A Fiction of the Past : The Sixties in American History by Dominick J. Cavallo ISBN: 0312235011 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 03 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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