Authors: Robin Morgan
“On Women as a Colonized People” first appeared in
Circle One: A Woman's Beginning Guide to Self-Health and Sexuality
, and was reprinted in
The New Woman's Survival Sourcebook
(Grimstad and Rennie, eds., Knopf, 1975).
“Lesbianism and Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?” was published in
The Lesbian Tide, Amazon Quarterly
, and
The Second Wave
, and is available as a reprint from KNOW, Inc., the feminist publishing house.
The article on Women's Studies, herein entitled “The Proper Study of Womankind,” first appeared in transcript form in the book published by KNOW, Inc.,
Report on the West Coast Women's Studies Conference
. The version I reprint here has been edited for length.
INDEX
[The legend § indicates that the name or title most closely preceding it occurs as a main entry in the Reading List.]
Abbott, Sidney, §
abortion,
8
,
11
,
12
,
59
,
66
,
75
,
92
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
110
,
118
,
120
,
138
,
139
,
140
,
151
,
158
,
177n
,
194
,
199
,
203
,
290
,
303
ageism,
9
,
92
,
177
,
186
,
207
,
242
; abolition as a feminist goal,
290
Agnew, Kim,
130
Akhmatova, Anna,
206
Albany Four,
147â148
Algeria,
6
,
76
,
103
,
196â197
,
231
,
241
;
Battle of Algiers,
65
; FLN,
118
Allegro, Peggy,
185
Alpert, Jane,
17
,
116
,
128
,
130
,
222â226
Alta,
265
alternate institutions,
9â10
,
93
,
133â134
,
157
Amazons,
83
,
139
,
142
; “Amazon Nation,”
187
; as negative model,
312
Andersen, Hans Christian,
287
;
see also
dedication page
androcide,
308
;
see also
death, gynocide, violence
Anouilh, Jean,
267
Anthony, Susan B.,
55â56
,
91
,
157
,
173
,
190â191
,
286
,
313
;
see
Stanton, §
anthropology,
95
,
97
,
106
,
169
,
197
Ariès, Phillipe, §
arrests,
65
,
66
,
88
,
132â133
,
200
,
202
,
204
,
222
,
295
;
see
jail
art,
xi
,
3
,
5
,
11
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
23
,
24
,
51
,
73
,
99
,
119
,
140
,
157
,
175
,
190
,
191
,
204â205
,
206
,
207
,
218
,
219â220
,
221
,
228
,
233
,
244
,
245
,
251
,
265â289
,
293
,
306
,
310
,
313
,
314
;
see also
architecture, culture, dance, film, music, needlework, painting, poetry, quilting, sculpture, theater, troubadours, weaving, writing
Asian-American feminists,
6
,
189
Atkinson, Ti-Grace,
222
,
225
,
294n
Atwood, Margaret,
265
Auschwitz,
225
Bachofen, J. J.,
233
, §
Bagnold, Enid,
267
Baldwin, James,
202
Barreño, Maria Isabel,
202
;
see also
Marias, The Three, §
Barrett, Elizabeth,
157
,
206
,
285â286
,
311
, §
Bass, Ellen,
see
Howe, §
battery,
8
,
66
,
147
,
148
,
168
,
182
,
202â203
,
228
; Centers for Battered Women,
9
;
see also
death, gynocide, rape, violence
Beard, Mary R., §
beauty standards,
4
,
5
,
16
,
35
,
39
,
67
,
77
.
95
,
97
,
108â109
,
111
,
118
,
162
; revolutionary feminist beauty standards,
130
;
see also
Miss America Pageant
de Beauvoir, Simone,
xi
,
86
,
205
, §
Bedford, Countess of,
see
Harington, Lucy
Beholding, The,
30
,
33â34
,
37
,
47
,
307n
;
see also
Pitchford, Kenneth
Benedict, Ruth,
106
, §
Benston, Margaret,
196n
Berry, Dorothy,
298
Bird, Caroline, §
birth control,
see
contraception
bisexuality,
7
,
104
,
170
,
175
,
176
,
186
,
293
Bishop, Elizabeth,
265
black, children,
143
; communities,
128
, education demands,
198
; consciousness,
202
; culture,
271
,
273
; history,
98
; men,
68
,
70
,
77
,
89
,
99
,
120
,
124
,
307
; women,
66
,
68
,
70
,
89
,
100
,
123
,
see
black feminism, minority women;
see also
colonization, racism, Third World
black feminism,
6
,
68
,
70
,
94
,
189
;
see
National Black Feminist Organization;
see also
international feminism
black movement,
68
,
97
,
100
,
102
,
118
; “black power, ”
68
,
102â103
;
see also
Black Panther Party, civil rights movement, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
black oppression, feminist analogy to,
68
,
82â83
,
84
,
102
,
165
,
227
Black Panther Party,
70
,
94
,
100
,
115
,
117
,
118
,
126
,
209
Blizzard Ape, The,
40n
;
see
Pitchford, §
Bogan, Louise,
265
;
Bogin, Meg,
266
, §
Boucher, Catherine,
52
Boudin, Kathy,
133
;
see
Weather women
Bradstreet, Anne,
221
Brecht, Bertholt,
267
Brico, Antonia,
17
Briller, Sara Welles,
see
Bird, §
Brontë sisters,
206
,
267
,
282
; Charlotte,
206
,
313
,
see
Moglen, § Emily,
157
,
206
,
221
,
Wuthering Heights,
167
Brown, Rita Mae,
178
Browning, E. B.,
see
Barrett
Brownmiller, Susan,
163
,
165n
, §
Burris, Barbara,
118n
California,
55
,
92
,
100
,
170â171
,
173
,
180
,
189
Campbell, Joseph,
233
, §
Canada,
6
,
15
,
64
,
157
,
170
,
215
,
313
capital punishment,
86
Carew, Thomas,
296
Carey, Elizabeth,
298
Carmichael, Stokely,
66
Carroll, Connie,
17
Cassatt, Mary,
221
Cather, Willa,
267
Catt, Carrie Chapman, §
Cavendish, Margaret,
298
censorship,
122
,
166
,
203â208
,
257
,
265
,
267â268
Chaplin, Dorothea, §
Chesler, Phyllis,
242n
, §
Chiang Ch'ing,
69
Chicanas,
6
,
189
;
see also
Mexican women, Spanish-speaking women
childbirth,
5
,
8
,
11
,
50â54
,
63
,
86
,
112
,
161n
,
199
,
230
,
243
,
291
,
303
,
310
,
312
,
313
; extra-uterine birth,
11
;
see also
inovulation
child care,
5
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
13
,
16
,
55
,
64
,
66
,
92
,
112
,
118
,
120
,
131â132
,
136
,
140
,
158
,
159
,
171
,
192
.
193
,
195
,
198
,
207
,
224
,
290
,
291
China,
6
,
69
,
118
,
197
,
205
,
225
,
312
Christianity,
72
,
168
,
224
,
241
,
266
,
302
;
see
Fundamentalist Christianity, “Jesus freaks,” Judeo-Christian tradition, Protestantism, Roman Catholicism
civil-rights movement,
xi
,
4
,
62
,
69
,
85
,
99
,
102
class, barriers,
6
,
92
,
207
; condescension,
119
,
182
,
251
; consciousness,
149
,
151â152
; distinctions,
8
,
15
,
87
,
92
,
177
,
184
,
186
,
238
; guilt,
xii
,
6
,
117
,
119
,
120
,
189
,
273
; hatred,
9
,
178
; struggle,
72
; “class traitors,”
178
; transcendence of,
158
class analysis,
178
,
185
,
196
; insufficiency of,
127
,
148
,
196
class and caste,
86
,
95
,
101
,
160
,
312
class and sex (men as a class),
139
,
178
,
284
classlessness,
3
Cleaver, Eldridge,
70
Cleaver, Kathleen,
130
Cleveland, John,
300
cloning,
see
inovulation