A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

A powerful and revealing memoir about the pioneers of modernday feminismPhyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 19721975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and sitins for abortion and equal rights, famously took over offices and buildings, and pioneered high profile Speakouts. They began the firstever national and international public conversations about birth control and abortion, sexual harassment, violence against women, female orgasm, and a womans right to kill in selfdefense.Now, Chesler has juicy stories to tell. The feminist movement has changed over the years, but Chesler knew some of its first pioneers, including Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett, Flo Kennedy, and Andrea Dworkin. These women were fierce forces of nature, smoldering figures of sin and soul, rock stars and action heroes in real life. Some had been viewed as whores, witches, and madwomen, but were changing the world and becoming major players in history. In A Politically Incorrect Feminist, Chesler gets chatty while introducing the reader to some of feminisms major players and worldchangers.