No more nice girls: countercultural essays

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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Identity Crisis; Part 1: No More Nice Girls; Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex?; Nature's Revenge; Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution; The Last Unmarried Person in America; Peace in Our Time? The Greening of Betty Friedan; Marriage on the Rocks; Putting Women Back in the Abortion Debate; Looking for Mr. Good Dad; From Forced Pregnancy to Forced Surgery; Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex; Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism; Feminism Without Freedom; Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us.;With characteristic intelligence, wit, and feminist insight, Ellen Willis addresses democracy as she sees it: "a commitment to individual freedom and egalitarian self-government in every area of social, economic, and cultural life." Moving between scholarly and down-to-earth activist writing styles, Willis confronts the conservative backlash that has slowly eroded democratic ideals and advances of the 1960s as well as the internal debates that have frequently splintered the left.