Title: Subject to debate : sense and dissents on women, politics, and culture /
Authors: Pollitt, Katha.
Publisher: Modern Library,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Popular culture United States; Feminism.; Women United States.; United States Politics and government; United States Civilization
Abstract: Eighty-eight essays on topics ranging from abortion and affirmative action to school vouchers and the death penalty.
Contents: Introduction: feminism at the millennium -- Clara Zetkin Avenue -- National tulip conversation -- Last president -- Communitarianism, no -- Single-sex sexism -- Opinionated women -- "Sex in America" -- School prayer? By all means -- Beggar's opera -- Deadbeat dads: a modest proposal -- Affirmative action begins at home -- We are all Marcia Clark -- Victoria's secret -- Opportunity knocked -- Is marriage like a bran muffin? -- 1945 -- Of grass and guns -- Swish, thwack, boo -- Facts and pundits -- O.J. verdict: while you were sleeping -- Million man mirage -- Where are the women we voted for? -- Kept illusions -- Violence of ordinary life -- No god, no master -- Village idiocy -- French lessons -- Sweet swan of Avon -- Take back the right -- For whom the ball rolls -- Gay marriage? Don't say I didn't warn you -- Pomolotov cocktail -- Adoption fantasy -- Utopia, limited -- Strange death of liberal America -- Of toes and men -- We were wrong: why I'm not voting for Clinton --^