Reviews

Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement by Lindsy Van Gelder, Karen Sacks, Leah Fritz, Enriqueta Longauex y Vasquez, Naomi Weisstein, Kate Millett, Roxanne Dunbar, Rita Mae Brown, Irene Peslikis, Mary Daly, Sheila Smith Hobson, Laura Furman, Marge Piercy, Florynce Kennedy, Miriam Gilbert, Connie Brown, Elizabeth Sutherland, Connie Dvorkin, Jayne West, Charlotte Bonny Cohen, Leslie B. Tanner, Florika, Lynn Strongin, susan lydon, Judith Ann, Susan Sutheim, Sylvia Plath, Alice Embree, Jane Seitz, Pat Mainardi, Frances M. Beal, Maria Ann Britton, Janet Russo, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Marilyn Lowen Fletcher, Natalie Shainess, Rachel Moon, Valerie Solanis, Susan Pascale, Jean Tepperman, Alice de Rivera, Lucinda Cisler, Ellen Strong, Karen Lindsey, Mary Jane Sherfey, Robin Morgan, Diane B. Schulder, Beverly Jones, Joreen, Susan Schnall, Martha Shelley, Gene Damon, Zoe Moss, Carol Glassman

leeleeski's review

3.0

A good collection of feminist writings from the 60s and 70s. I've read a lot of feminist essays and thought I understood what feminism was at that time. I learned so many new things.

daisyjonesirl's review

informative medium-paced

4.0

Read this for an essay. Very inspirational but also very dated

cjeanne99's review

informative inspiring

5.0

Powerful and reflective essays. A must read. 

naomithefirst's review

challenging informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

andreapoulain's review

3.0

Irregular, pero interesante, en general.

cpirmann's review

essays,women's studies

katie_king's review

4.0

A mind-blower and a game-changer for me. I read it from cover to cover when it first came out, and lugged it around with me for years.

ookie's review

5.0

This book was formative and empowering to my thinking and understanding of feminist issues when I read it in the 70s. In fact, I think it was life changing in that it articulated what it is that women deal with.

cherricheetah's review

3.0

okay, yeah — it's definitely (out)dated, between racist language and the whole discussion of marriage and it being the biggest factor in the feminist fight.

or, at least that's how it seems to me. i feel like... i am completely out of the social group that sees marriage as a necessary thing, as something to look forward to, as something that is spoken with high regard, as something that i should want to be and will be apart of, so that's why i feel all the focus on marriage is dated. i guess i should probably research that, how young women like myself in 2020 view marriage, because i have a viewpoint of it but it's just my viewpoint. maybe there's a set of people out there that still see marriage as this huge, viable thing, and also can see the oppressive nature it still probably has on women, i don't know.

also, there's discussion of lesbianism in this but no discussion of any other sexuality, also completely leaves out transgender and nonbinary people, which i guess is fair for being 1970, but still.

this book is groundbreaking for 1970, but doesn't hold up well in 2020.