Rachel Blau Duplessis

The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women's Liberation Rachel Blau Duplessis

Marc Notes: Originally published: New York: Three Rivers Press, c1998.; Includes bibliographical references. Review Quotes: ""The Feminist Memoir Project "has put back in the historical record dozens of urgent voices that were on the verge of being lost forever. What a fascinating, vital-and vitally important book."--Katha Pollitt (01/01/2001) Biographical Note: Rachel Blau DuPlessis is a professor of English and women's studies at Temple University and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Ann Snitow is a professor of literature and gender studies at The New School for Social Research and lives in New York City.9/26/14- will be a lightning po title. will email you when proof is acceptedBrief Description: The women of The Feminist Memoir Project give voice to the spirit, the drive, and the claims of the Women's Liberation Movement they helped shape, beginning in the late 1960s. These thirty-two writers were among the thousands to jump-start feminism in the late twentieth century. Here, in pieces that are passionate, personal, critical, and witty, they describe what it felt like to make history, to live through and contribute to the massive social movement that transformed the nation. What made these particular women rebel? And what experiences, ideas, feelings, and beliefs shaped their activism? How did they maintain the will and energy to keep such a struggle going for so long, and continuing still? Memoirs and responses by Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick, Michele Wallace, Alix Kates Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Smith, Ellen Willis, Eve Ensler, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Roxanne Dunbar, Naomi Weisstein, Alice Wolfson and many more embody the excitement that fueled the movement and the conflicts that threatened it from within. Their stories trace the ways the world has changed. Review Citations:

Publishers Weekly 10/19/1998 pg. 70 (EAN 9780609803844, Paperback)

Booklist 10/01/1998 pg. 279 (EAN 9780609803844, Paperback)

New York Times 02/28/1999 pg. 16 (EAN 9780609803844, Paperback)

Library Journal 10/15/1998 pg. 81 (EAN 9780609803844, Paperback)

Contributor Bio:  DuPlessis, Rachel Blau Poet-critic Rachel Blau DuPlessis (Ph. D., Columbia University) is known as a feminist critic and scholar with a special interest in modern and contemporary poetry, and as a poet and essayist. Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work, a book of essays, was published by University of Alabama Press in 2006; in the same year, Alabama reprinted DuPlessis's classic work The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice. Another recent critical book by DuPlessis is Genders, Races, and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934 (Cambridge University Press, 2001). Her books of poetry are Drafts 1-38, Toll (Wesleyan University Press, 2001) and DRAFTS. Drafts 39-57, Pledge with Draft, Unnumbered: Precis (Salt Publishing, 2004). A poem from this book appears in American Poetry 2004. Torques: Drafts 58-76 appeared from Salt Publishing in October 2007 and Pitch: Drafts 77-95 is in press with Salt Publishing.