Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years 1960-1975
Named a "leader of the feminist movement" in Time and Life  magazines, Dunbar-Ortiz (history, California State Univ.,  Hayward; Red Dirt; Roots of Resistance) takes the reader on a  firsthand tour through the radical movements and events of the  1960s and early 1970s: South African apartheid, the Black  Panthers, the Weather underground, and the antiwar and women's  liberation movements. Dunbar-Ortiz cofounded an early feminist  group, Cell 16, in Boston that published an influential journal,  spoke extensively about women's liberation, worked in Cuba with  people who had fought with Castro and Che Guevara, went  underground, and was pursued by the FBI. Dunbar is frank about  both her struggles and her triumphs. The reader will not find  here an objective account of 1960s and 1970s U.S. history but an  illuminating look at the inside of political organizing within  the radical feminist and Socialist movements during that  tumultuous and violent period. Although this is a memoir,  Dunbar-Ortiz addresses so many historical events that readers  unfamiliar with the period would have benefited from a  bibliography. Recommended for academic libraries. Debra Moore,  Cerritos Coll., Norwalk, CACopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.