Research Catalog

Title

Subject to debate / Katha Pollitt.

Author

Pollitt, Katha.

Publication

New York : Modern Library, 2001.

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Details

Description

xxviii, 332 pages; 21 cm

Subjects

• Feminist ethics > United States
• Social problems > Moral and ethical aspects
• Social problems > United States

Note

• A collection of articles originally published in the author's column, Subject to debate, in the Nation.

Contents

• Introduction: Feminism at the Millennium -- Clara Zetkin Avenue -- National Tulip Conversation -- The 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 Link a Bran Muffin? -- 1945 -- Of Grass and Guns -- Swish, Thwack, Boo -- Facts and Pundits -- The O.J. Verdict: While You Were Sleeping -- Million Man Mirage -- Where Are the Women We Voted For? -- Kept Illusions -- The 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 -- The Strange Death of Liberal America -- Of Toes and Men --
• We Were Wrong: Why I'm Not Voting for Clinton -- First Wives, Last Laugh -- Kissing and Telling -- No Vote for Clinton? Readers Bite Back -- Let Them Eat Numbers -- Born Again vs. Porn Again -- Can This Marriage Be Saved? -- Paula Jones, Class Act? -- Secrets and Lies -- Go Figure -- Heaven Can Wait -- When I'm Sixty-four -- No Sex, Please. We're Killers -- About Race: Can We Talk? -- Get Thee Behind Me, Disney -- Honk If You Like Art -- Thoroughly Modern Di -- Free Willie -- Hello, Columbus -- Women and Children First -- Madchen in Uniform -- Vouching Toward Bethlehem -- Race and Gender and Class, Oh My! -- School's Out -- Far From Chile? -- Masterpiece Theater -- September Thong -- Great Big Baskets of Dirty Linen -- Poverty: Fudging the Numbers -- Murder, Inc -- Precious Bodily Fluids -- Make Love, Not War -- The People vs. Larry Flynt? -- Let Them Sell Lemonade -- Women's Rights: As the World Turns -- A Bronx Tale -- War and Memory -- Natural Born Killers --
• No Males Need Apply? -- Weird Science -- Polymaritally Perverse -- Catholic Bashing? -- Home Discomforts -- The Death Penalty in Theory and Practice -- Regrets Only -- Progressive Presidential Politics (continued) -- Abortion History 101 -- Underground Against the Taliban -- Moms to NRA: Grow Up! -- The Politics of Personal Responsibility -- Freedom from Religion, si! -- Social Pseudoscience.

ISBN

0679783431 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00056109

OCLC

• 243621674
• ocn243621674
• SCSB-4093311

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries