Feminist Revolution

New Paltz, New York: Redstockings, 1975. First edition. Saddle-stapled in yellow card. 8 1/2 x 11 in. 200 p., illus. Very good. Item #10360

The first edition of this important anthology compiled and published by Redstockings, a radical feminist group founded in NYC in 1969 by Ellen Willis and Shulamith Firestone following the dissolution of New York Radical Women.

The anthology included a number of influential essays of the women’s liberation movement, including Kathie Sarachild’s “The Power of History” and “Consciousness-Raising: A Radical Weapon,” Carol Hansich’s “Blacks, Women, and the Movement in SCEF,” “Men’s Liberation,” and “The Liberal Takeover of Women’s Liberation,” Michele Wallace’s “On the National Black Feminist Organization,” Barbara Leon’s “The Male Supremacist Attack on Monogamy,” & Shirley
Boccaccio’s “The Housework Poster Rip-Off.” 

The anthology included Barbara Leon’s article, “Gloria Steinem and the CIA,” which exposed Steinem’s association with the CIA-funded Independent Research Service. Due to Steinem’s threat of litigation, the article was not included in the Random House reprint published in 1979. 

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