Virginity or death!
Subtitle: and other social and political issues of our time
By: Katha Pollitt
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780812976380
Subjects: Social conditions; Politics and government
Other titles: Nation (New York, N.Y.)
Description: "Through presidential administrations Democratic and Republican, Katha Pollitt has observed and exposed the inconsistencies and illogic of those who stand in the way of progress solely to hold on to their power. In defense of human rights and equality, she assails the corrupt and educates the misguided with compassion, wit, and complete literary authority."--Jacket.
Notes: A collection of articles originally published in the author's column, Subject to debate, in the Nation.

"Random House trade paperback original"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Dear Larry, Thanks! John -- 3; title: No Olive Branch -- 6; title: Vaginal Politics -- 9; title: Anti-Catholic? Round Two -- 12; title: Letters to the Office of Faith-Based Initiatives -- 15; title: This Warning May Be Hazardous to Your Health -- 19; title: Analyze This -- 22; title: Childcare Scare -- 25; title: Happy Mother's Day -- 28; title: Cold Comfort -- 31; title: Mad Bad Ads -- 34; title: It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ... Superclone? -- 37; title: Baby, It's Cold Inside! -- 40; title: Summer Follies -- 43; title: Put Out No Flags -- 46; title: Where Are the Women? -- 49; title: War and Peace -- 52; title: After the Taliban -- 55; title: Shotgun Weddings -- 58; title: Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002 -- 61; title: Egg on the Brain -- 64; title: Justice, Not So Swift -- 67; title: God Changes Everything -- 70; title: Backlash Babies -- 73; title: Regressive Progressive? -- 76; title: Special Rights for the Godly? -- 79; title: Ashcroft Love Iran -- 82; title: School's Out -- 85; title: Beyond Good and Evil -- 88; title: Letter to an Ex-Contrarian -- 91; title: Raise a Glass to the Stay-at-Home Voter? -- 94; title: As Miss World Turns -- 97; title: They Know When You Are Sleeping -- 100; title: War. What Is It Good For? -- 103; title: Pride and Prejudice -- 106; title: Weapons of Mass Delusion? -- 109; title: Bah, Humbug -- 112; title: White Lies -- 115; title: Blond Ambition -- 118; title: Lost Innocents -- 121; title: Selling Dean Short -- 124; title: Stacked Decalogue -- 127; title: Governor Groper? -- 130; title: After You, My Dear Alphonse -- 133; title: Is the Pope Crazy? -- 136; title: There They Go Again -- 139; title: Adam and Steve-Together at Last -- 142; title: Good News for Women -- 145; title: Lost in Space -- 149; title: Judy, Judy, Judy -- 152; title: Kristof to the Rescue? -- 157; title: Toothpaste, Cough Drops, Aspirin, Contraception -- 160; title: The Protocols of Mel Gibson -- 163; title: Pull Over, NASCAR Dads -- 166; title: Pregnant and Dangerous -- 169; title: Down and Out in Texas -- 172; title: Show and Tell in Abu Ghraib -- 175; title: Desperately Seeking Health Insurance -- 178; title: Sex and the Stepford Wife -- 181; title: Let's Not Devalue Ourselves -- 184; title: Bush Bashers and the Bashers Who Bash Them -- 187; title: Mary Cheney, Mary Cheney -- 190; title: Mourn -- 193; title: Earthly Rewards for the Christian Voter -- 196; title: Stop Crying, Start Working -- 199; title: Bittersweet Bomblets -- 202; title: Jesus to the Rescue? -- 205; title: Summers of Our Discontent -- 208; title: Invisible Women -- 211; title: Backward Christian Soldiers -- 214; title: Andrea Dworkin, 1946-2005 -- 217; title: Practice What You Preach -- 220; title: Virginity or Death! -- 224; title: Stiffed -- 227; title: If the Frame Fits ... -- 230; title: Should Roe Go? -- 233; title: Feminists for (Fetal) Life -- 236; title: Theocracy Lite -- 239; title: Intelligible Design -- 242; title: Desperate Housewives of the Ivy League? -- 245; title: If Not Miers, Who? -- 248; title: Madam President, Madam President -- 251; title: The World According to Dowd -- 254; title: Girls Against Boys? -- 257; title: Pro-Choice Puritans -- 260; title: Betty Friedan, 1921-2006-- 263.