50 years of Ms. : the best of the pathfinding magazine that ignited a revolution / edited and with commentary by Katherine Spillar and the editors of Ms. ; introduction by Katherine Spillar and Eleanor Smeal ; foreword by Gloria Steinem.

"A decade-by-decade compendium of articles, fiction, poetry, and art from Ms. Magazine"--

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spillar, Katherine (Editor, Writer of added commentary, Writer of introduction)
Smeal, Eleanor (Writer of introduction)
Steinem, Gloria (writer of foreword.)
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Ms. (U.S. : 1971) > History.
Feminism > United States > History > 20th century.
Women > United States > History > 20th century.
Féminisme > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Feminism.
Women.
United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
1900-1999
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxiv, 516 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Variant Title:
Fifty years of Ms.
Other Uniform Title:Ms. (U.S. : 1971) Selections from:
Format: Book
Contents:
  • "Click! The housewife's moment of truth" / by Jane O'Reilly
  • "Welfare is a women's issue" / by Johnnie Tillmon
  • "The Shulman's marriage agreement" / by Susan Edmiston
  • "Wonder Woman: revisited" / by Joanne Edgar
  • "Women voters can't be trusted" / by Gloria Steinem
  • "Notes from abroad"
  • "Populist mechanics"
  • "Manners for humans"
  • "Body hair: the last frontier" / by Harriet Lyons and Rebecca Rosenblatt
  • "Men: clubbishness" / by Marc Fasteau
  • "Stories for free children: X: a fabulous child's story" / by Lois Gould
  • "More 'stories for free children'"
  • "Never again" / by Roberta Brandes Gratz
  • "The ticket that might have been... President Chisholm" / by Gloria Steinem
  • "Getting to know me: a primer on masturbation" / by Betty Dodson
  • "Baseball diamonds are a girl's best friend" / by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • "Joan Little: the dialectics of rape" / by Angela Davis
  • "Testosterone poisoning" / by Alan Alda
  • "Lost women"
  • "Lesbian custody: a tragic day in court" / by Lindsy Van Gelder
  • "Have you ever supported equal pay, child care, or women's groups? The FBI was watching you" / by Letty Cottin Pogrebin
  • "If men could menstruate" / by Gloria Steinem
  • "Final" / by Linda Pastan
  • "The question no one would answer" / by Nawal El Saadawi
  • "The life story that asks the question: 'can a girl from a little town in North Carolina find happiness as a priest/poet/lawyer/teacher/revolutionary/feminist/civil rights activist?'" / by Casey Miller and Kate Swift
  • "Life on the global assembly line" / by Barbara Ehrenreich and Annette Fuentes
  • "The politics of talking in couples: conversus interruptus and other disorders" / by Barbara Ehrenreich
  • "Gerda Lerner on the future of our past" / interview by Catharine R. Stimpson
  • "Back page: give yourself the last word"
  • "A bloodsmoor romance" / by Joyce Carol Oates
  • "The contrived postures of femininity" / by Susan Brownmiller
  • "The training of a gynecologist" / by David Hellerstein
  • "Poem in answer to the question 'why don't you have children?'" / by Jana Harris
  • "If women had a foreign policy"
  • "Solving the great pronoun debate" / by Marie Shear
  • "Date rape: the story of an epidemic and those who deny it" / by Ellen Sweet
  • "Finding Celie's voice" / by Alice Walker
  • "Divorce: who gets the blame in 'no fault'?" / by Marianne Takas
  • "Kathy's day in court" / by Angela Bonavoglia
  • "Chromosome count" / by Alison Carlson
  • "Ms. lives!" / by Robin Morgan
  • "Sex, lies, and advertising" / by Gloria Steinem
  • "She" / by Adrienne Rich
  • "'Femicide': speaking the unspeakable" / by Jane Caputi and Diana E. H. Russell
  • "A day in the life: dispatches from Nome, Alaska, to Virginia Beach" / by Rita Henley Jensen
  • "Women rap back" / by Michele Wallace
  • "The search for signs of intelligent life in the twenty-first century" / by Jane Wagner
  • "Three generations of Native American women's birth experience" / by Joy Harjo
  • "I am not one of the" / by Cheryl Marie Wade
  • "And the language is race" / by Eleanor Holmes Norton
  • "The politics of housework" / by Patricia Mainardi
  • "Twenty years of feminist bookstores" / by Carol Seajay
  • "Persephone abducted" / by Rita Dove
  • "'We are who you are'" / by Bonnie Sherr Klein
  • "Today could be the day" / by Audre Lorde
  • "What, menopause again? A guide to cultural combat" / by Margaret Morganroth Gullette
  • "Raising sons" / by Mary Gordon
  • "Hate radio" / by Patricia J. Williams
  • "Guest room: saying the word" / by V (formerly Eve Ensler)
  • "Women in prison" / by Nina Siegal
  • "So who gets the kids? Divorce in the age of equal parenting" / by Susan J. Douglas
  • "Studying womanhood" / by Noelle Howey
  • "Who wants to marry a feminist?" / by Lisa Jervis
  • "Making the cut" / by Martha Coventry
  • "The dykes next door" / by Judith Levine
  • "Sneak attack: the militarization of U.S. culture" / by Cynthia Enloe
  • "A cruel edge: the painful truth about today's pornography, and what men can do about it" / by Robert Jensen
  • "One secret thing" / by Sharon Olds
  • "What's so funny?" / by Gina Barreca
  • "How everything adores being alive" / by Mary Oliver
  • "Between a woman and her doctor" / by Martha Mendoza
  • "The dialectic of fat" / by Catherine Orenstein
  • "Ms. conversation: Lesley Gore and Kathleen Hanna"
  • "A brave sisterhood" / by Bay Fang
  • "Too poor to parent?" / by Gaylynn Burroughs
  • "Forty years of women's studies" / by Beverly Guy-Sheftall
  • "Intersections" / by Bonnie Thornton Dill
  • "Domestic workers take it to the streets" / by Premilla Nadasen
  • "Not a lone wolf" / by Amanda Robb
  • "Jailing girls for men's crimes" / by Carrie N. Baker
  • "Calling all grand mothers" / by Alice Walker
  • "An acequia runs through it" / by Patricia Marina Trujillo
  • "What would bell hooks say?" / by Jennifer Williams
  • "If the clothes fit" / by Minh-Ha T. Pham
  • "Most. Effective. Speaker. Ever." / by Linda Burstyn
  • "Court-martialing the military" / by Molly M. Ginty
  • "For the price of a pad" / by Linda Villarosa
  • "Four (same-sex) weddings and a funeral" / by Susan Goldberg
  • "Beyoncé's fierce feminism" / by Janell Hobson
  • "Marriage is marriage" / by Sarah Boonin
  • "The feminist factor" / by Eleanor Smeal
  • "Saving mother from herself" / by Marge Piercy
  • "Aftermath of Isla Vista" / by Donna Decker
  • "The women of Black Lives Matter" / by Brittney Cooper
  • "Peace strength wisdom wonder" / by Aviva Dove-Viebahn
  • "Needlework" / by Robin Morgan
  • "The crime was pregnancy" / by Amber Khan
  • "A social movement that happens to play soccer" / by Dave Zirin
  • "We want in" / by Carrie N. Baker
  • "Beijing + 25" / by Ellen Chesler
  • "Do we care?" / by Rakeen Mabud and Lenore Palladino
  • "Parity in everything" / by Jennifer M. Piscopo
  • "Call in for equality" / by Carrie N. Baker
  • "The end of Roe v. Wade?" / on the issues, hosted by Michele Goodwin
  • "A case for the Equal Rights Amendment" / by Victoria F. Nourse
  • "Women's rights are not 'western values'" / by Sima Samar
  • "Abortion is essential to democracy" / by Katherine Spillar and Jennifer Weiss-Wolf
  • "Ms. Harriet Tubman at two hundred" / by Janell Hobson
  • "Dark energy for Harriet Tubman" / by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  • "The patriarchs' war on women" / by Zoe Marks and Erica Chenoweth.