The World Split Open (96 page)

rethinking conference of,
121–24

sexual revolution and,
145–46

splintering of,
96

women's liberation and,
126–27
,
135
,
140

subcultures:

hippie,
124–26
,
161

singles,
51–52
,
314

suburbs,
9

suffrage movement,
27
,
33
,
66
,
71
,
85
,
92
,
343
,
344

Super Self: A Woman's Guide to Self-Management
(Tennov),
316

superwoman,
295
,
296
,
304–5
,
320
,
327–28
,
330
,
337

Sutherland, Elizabeth,
114

Sweet Honey in the Rock,
224

Swerdlow, Amy,
203

Syfers, Judy,
210
,
221–22

“Take Back the Night” marches,
184–85
,
192

“Talking Sex” (Rubin, Hollibaugh, and English),
193

Taub, Nadine,
187

Tax, Meredith,
84
,
229

Taylor, Ella,
320
,
321

television,
296–97
,
299–300
,
302
,
320–22

Tender Trap, The
,
13

Tennov, Dorothy,
316

“that chick is SO REVOLUTIONARY,” (Alta),
219–20

therapeutic feminism,
314–20
,
328
,
335

Third Wave, The,
276

Third Wave Agenda, The
,
276

This Bridge Called My Back
(Moraga and Anzaldua, eds.),
290

Thomas, Clarence,
187–88

Thomas, Helen,
90

Thompson, Dorothy,
27
,
36

Thrasher, Sue,
116–17
,
127

Tiburzi, Bonnie,
306

Tillinghast, Muriel,
109

Tilman, Johnnie,
210

Time
,
303
,
338

Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
71–73
,
75
,
81

Title IX of the Education Amendments,
89

Toll, Beverly,
171

Tooth and Nail
,
162

torch relay,
292–93

Total Woman
(Morgan),
317–19

“To the Women of the Left,”
129

trashing,
227–39
,
252
,
259

of Steinem,
235–39
,
255–56

“Tyranny of Structurelessness, The” (Freeman),
227–28

UE Fights for Women Workers
(Friedan),
5

unions,
see
labor

Union WAGE (Women's Alliance to Gain Equality),
248
,
268–69

United Auto Workers (U AW),
68
,
69
,
80
,
82

United Farm Workers (UFW),
287

United Nations,
340–42

World Conferences on Women,
184
,
340–341
,
342

universities,
see
colleges and universities

Unmarried Woman, An
,
323
,
326–27

Vaginal Politics
(Frankfort),
150

Van de Velde, Th. H.,
16

vanguard,
167

lesbians as,
167
,
168
,
169–70
,
173
,
230

Varela, Maria,
286

Vietnamese Women: Three Portraits
,
137

Vietnam War:

movement against,
see
antiwar movement

women's liberation and,
137–38

Viguerie, Richard,
91
,
332–33

violence,
184

domestic,
185–86
,
188
,
195

human rights organizations and,
341

Left's romanticization of,
136
,
140
,
145

see also
rape

Virginia Slims,
311

Voice of Women's Liberation, The
,
132

“Voices of the Post-Feminist Generation” (Bolotin),
275

Voices of the Women's Liberation Movement
,
201

WAC (Women's Action Coalition),
276

Walker, Alice,
265
,
284
,
285

Walker, Rebecca,
276

Wallace, Michelle,
282
,
283
,
284

Wall Street,
204

Wall Street Journal
,
73

War at Home, The
(Glick),
251

Ware, Celestine,
279

Washington, Cynthia,
105
,
106
,
109

Washington Post
,
64
,
80
,
92
,
238

Way We Were, The
,
323

WEAL (Women's Equity Action League),
83
,
89

Weather Underground,
96
,
136
,
248–49
,
257

Webb, Lee,
130

Webb, Marilyn Salzman,
111
,
118
,
120
,
127
,
130
,
131
,
132
,
134
,
135
,
231
,
253–54
,
256
,
257
,
258

Weber, Devra,
125–26

Webster, Paula,
194

Weideger, Paula,
37–38

Weills, Anne (Anne Scheer),
118
,
130–32
,
250

Weisstein, Naomi,
45–46
,
127
,
140
,
163
,
172
,
197
,
198
,
214
,
223
,
232
,
263

welfare,
210
,
282
,
339

“Welfare Is a Woman's Issue” (Tilman),
210

Werner, Mindy,
275–76

Weyrich, Paul,
91

“When Sisterhood Turns Sour” (Curtis),
227

White, Lynn,
40–41

White Girls
(Lauber),
45

White Panther Party,
145

“Why I Want a Wife” (Syfers),
210
,
221–22

WIDF (Women's International Democratic Federation),
28

Willard, Emma,
247

Williams, Delores S.,
265

Williams, Jean,
32–33

Williams, Maxine,
279
,
281

Willis, Ellen,
134
,
135
,
139
,
193
,
199
,
215

Wilson, Bob,
183

Wilson, Stella,
307–8

WITCH (Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell),
204
,
205
,
246
,
298

Witt, Shirley Hill,
291

Wolf, Naomi,
276

“Woman-Identified Woman,”
167–68

Woman Power: The Movement for Women's Liberation
(Ware),
279–80

Women and Madness
(Chesler),
179

“Women Rap About Sex” (Firestone),
150

Women's Action Coalition (WAC),
276

women's culture,
217–26

art,
224–26

humor,
220–23

lesbians and,
174–75

music,
223–24

poetry,
218–20

Women's Equity Action League (WEAL),
83
,
89

Women's Health Conference,
176

Women's Herstory Library,
133

women's history,
205
,
206
,
266–67

Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF),
28

Women's International League for Peace and Freedom,
27

Women's International Terrorist Conspiracy from Hell (WITCH),
204
,
205
,
246
,
298

Women's Liberation Front,
206

Women's Liberation Rock and Roll Band,
223
,
232

Women's Liberation Union,
163

women's movement:

abortion rights campaign and,
158

“A Kind of Memo” and,
112–14
,
115
,
121–22

anger in,
198–99
,
220

backlash against,
90–91
,
92
,
253
,
270
,
276
,
326
,
330
,
331–37

black women in,
see
black women

bra-burning and,
160–61
,
297

change and fragmentation in,
253
,
263–64
,
270
,
271–72
,
274

chronology of,
xvii–xxxii

community in,
199

as conflict of cultures, not men vs. women,
333–34

consciousness-raising in,
87
,
114
,
196–201
,
220
,
264

consumerism and,
328
,
330

and definition of “women's issues,”
271
,
338
,
340

demonstrations in,
201–8
,
300

Equal Rights Amendment and,
27
,
39
,
66
,
71

euphoria in,
199–201
,
264

FBI surveillance of,
239–54
,
257
,
258
,
259–60

health movement in,
175–81

lesbians and,
see
lesbians, lesbianism

liberalism and,
77–78
,
88

mainstream services created by,
270

media and,
see
media

minority women in,
see
minority women

Ms.
and,
162
,
210–17

National Women's Conference and,
291–94

New Left/hippie culture and,
161

paranoia in,
239
,
252–60

polls on women's attitudes toward,
337–38

and Presidential Commission on the Status of Women,
64
,
66–70
,
74

public image of,
295
;
see also
media

Right's emulation of methods of,
332

and SDS rethinking conference,
121–24

sexuality as topic in,
148–57

sex workers and,
188–94

SNCC Position Paper and,
107–8

spread of,
129–33
,
267–68
,
271

structurelessness in,
227–29

successes of,
89–90
,
338–40

and Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
71–73
,
75
,
81

trashing in,
227–39
,
252
,
259

women's culture created by,
174–75
,
217–26

and women's rejection of New Left,
95
,
133–40

of younger women,
84–93

of younger women, vs. NOW,
84–88

see also
feminism

Women's Strike for Equality,
92–93
,
296

Women Strike for Peace (WSP),
59
,
99
,
130
,
201
,
202–3
,
240

Wood, Jill,
216

work, historical break between home and,
328

working class:

feminists as from,
46–47
,
87

NOW and,
81

Working Woman
,
312

working women,
10
,
19–27
,
35–36
,
67
,
123
,
274–75
,
320
,
330
,
334
,
335
,
336
,
337
,
339–40

abortion rights and,
331

assertiveness training and,
317

clothing for,
163
,
312–14

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and,
72–74
,
75

Equal Rights Amendment and,
82

FBI and,
248

“first woman” stories and,
303–8

magazines and,
310
,
312

mothers,
21
,
24
,
26
,
320
,
333
;
see also
child care

NOW's statement and,
78–79

organizations for,
268–70

sexual harassment and,
23–24
,
186–88
,
195

superwoman ideal and,
295
,
296
,
304–5
,
320
,
327–28
,
330
,
337

television portrayals of,
321–22

Total Woman and,
319