Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Women`s Liberation

During the late `60s and early `70s, women emerged from the civil rights and antiwar movements to claim their own liberation. Suddenly, women were speaking out in public, protesting the wage gap and their double day of work, and fighting sex role stereotyping. Their efforts and achievements are brought to life in Live, from Feminism. Memoirs and responses by Kate Millett, Vivian Gornick, Michele Wallace, Alix Kates Shulman, Joan Nestle, Jo Freeman, and a variety of activist women reflect on the friendships and goals that strengthened the movement and on the conflicts that threatened it from within. From lighthearted reminiscences about consciousness-raising groups to hard-hitting analyses of political issues, Live, from Feminism embraces the diversity and the contradictions of the movement in the words of the women who shaped it and changed the world we live in.