Subject to Debate
Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture
Published on 18. December 2007
368 pages
978-0-307-43187-5 (ISBN)
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Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of her indefatigable wit and brilliance. Her stirring new Introduction offers a seasoned critique of feminism at the millennium and is a clarion call for renewed activism against social injustice.
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Katha Pollitt writes the bimonthly column, "Subject to Debate" for The Nation. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim and Whiting Foundations, a grant from the NEA, a National Magazine Award in Essays and Criticism and a National Book Critics Circle Award. She lives in New York City.
Content
- Intro
- TITLE PAGE
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CLARA ZETKIN AVENUE
- NATIONAL TULIP CONVERSATION
- THE LAST PRESIDENT
- COMMUNITARIANISM, NO
- SINGLE-SEX SEXISM
- OPINIONATED WOMEN
- "SEX IN AMERICA"
- SCHOOL PRAYER?
- 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 LIKE 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, ¡SÍ!
- SOCIAL PSEUDOSCIENCE
- NOTES
- THE MODERN LIBRARY EDITORIAL BOARD
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
- ALSO BY KATHA POLLITT
- COPYRIGHT PAGE
