Sex and race, because they are easy, visible differences, have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups, and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. With fewer over-possessive mothers and fewer fathers who hold up an impossibly cruel or perfectionist idea of manhood, boys will be less likely to be denied or reject their identity as males. Paradoxically, the number of homosexuals may get smaller.

Single women will have the right to stay single without ridicule, without the attitudes now betrayed by 'spinster' and 'bachelor.' Lesbians or homosexuals will no longer be denied legally binding marriages, complete with mutual-support agreements and inheritance rights. Since the population explosion dictates that childbearing be kept to a minimum, parents-and-children will be only one of many 'families': couples, age groups, working groups, mixed communes, blood-related clans, class groups, creative groups. What will exist is a variety of alternative life-styles.It becomes aerialised-and I think it's important that women's experiences be given a narrative. Knowledge that is not accessible is not helpful. They have to say ' discourse', not ' talk'. Academics are forced to write in language no one can understand so that they get tenure. I always wanted to put a sign up on the road to Yale saying, 'Beware: Deconstruction Ahead'. Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age. As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, 'Oh no, that's women's work.' Logic has nothing to do with oppression. This is her superpower.Quotes However sugarcoated and ambiguous, every form of authoritarianism must start with a belief in some group's greater right to power, whether that right is justified by sex, race, class, religion or all four. Her plain common sense, calling things out as they are, will make you laugh out loud. Her prescient essays on female genital mutilation and the difference between erotica and pornography that are still referenced and relevant today, and the hilarious satire, 'If Men Could Menstruate' resonates as much as ever.Īs Watson writes of Steinem in her foreword, 'She makes what otherwise can be arduous and depressing reading into something not only relatable, but also enjoyable. Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions has sold over half a million copies since its original publication in 1983, acclaimed for its witty, warm, and life-changing view of the world, 'as if women mattered.' Steinem's truly personal writing is here, from the now-famous expos, 'I Was a Playboy Bunny,' to the moving tribute to her mother 'Ruth's Song (Because She Could Not Sing It)'. Print Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions - Third EditionĪn updated, third edition of the renowned feminist's most diverse and timeless collection of essays, with a new foreword by Emma Watson.

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