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No More Nice Girls Other Books by Ellen Willis Published by the University of Minnesota Press "Beginning to See the Light: Sex, Hope, and Rock-and-Roll Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music NO MORE NICE GIRLS Countercultural Essays ELLEN WILLIS M IN NE SO TA University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis London Originally published in 1992. by Wesleyan University Press First University of Minnesota Press edition, 2.012. Permissions to reprint previously published material in this book are on page 2,75. Copyright 1992. by Ellen Willis All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press T i T Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2.52.0 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Willis, Ellen. No more nice girls : countercultural essays / Ellen Willis. Originally published: Hanover : Published by University Press of New England [for | Wesleyan University Press, «992,. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-8166-8079-5 (pb : alk. paper) i. Feminism. ¿. Subculture. 3. Radicalism. 4. Democracy. I. Title. HQi.i54.W54 2.01.2. 305.42. dc2.^ 2.012.0152.78 Printed in the United States of America on acid free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 lo 9 8 7 6' 5 4 3 2 i For Stanley This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgmentsix ix Introduction: Identity Crisis xi Part 1 : No More Nice Girls Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex? 3 Nature's Revenge 15 Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution 19 The Last Unmarried Person in America 51 Peace in Our Time? The Greening of Betty Friedan 56 Marriage on the Rocks 64 Putting Women Back in the Abortion Debate 75 Looking for Mr. Good Dad 84 From Forced Pregnancy to Forced Surgery 90 Sisters Under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex 101 Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism 117 Feminism Without Freedom 151 Rebel Girl: What De Beauvoir Left Us 159 Part 2: Exile on Main Street Escape from New York 167 The People's Picasso 194 Sins of Confession 2.00 Ministries of Fear 2.06 Exile on Main Street: What the Pollard Case Means to Jews 2.11 The End of Fatherhood: Family Plots 219 Andy Warhol, ^-1987 2.2.7 In Defense of Offense: Salman Rushdie's Religious Problem 230 Beyond Pluralism 235 Now, Voyager 240 The Drug War: From Vision to Vice 2.44 The Drug War: Hell No, I Won't Go 249 Coming Down Again 255 Epilogue: The Neo-Guilt Trip 271 Permissions 275 Index 277 Acknowledgments Thanks to: Stanley Aronowitz, critic, sounding-board, and intellectual compan- ion par excellence; Karen Durbin, who edited some of the pieces in this book and in- spired others; my abortion rights zap group No More Nice Girls, the infamous Barnard Conference Planning Committee, and other advocates of feminist sexual revolution whose ideas about sex, gender, and femi- nism have influenced and challenged my own, with special apprecia- tion to Ann Snitow, C. Carr, Carole Vance, and Alice Echols; Janet Gallagher and Lynn Paltrow, whose research on fetal rights law informs "From Forced Pregnancy to Forced Surgery"; Jim Miller, who asked me to write an essay on "excess" for Salma- ¿fundi'ss special issue on the '6os, an idea with my name on it but one I hadn't thought of; Charlotte Sheedy and Regula Noetzli, my agents, who take an expan- sive view of their job.
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