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"Women have constantly supplied a free labor source, and one of those labors is sex... Sex has been an economic commodity traded to men for security."[1]
Karen Lindsay
Karen Lindsey is a feminist writer and historian.
Lindsey pioneered the concept of "consciously chosen family"[2], describing the growing importance of interpersonal relationships between co-workers, friends, and other geographically-close personalities beyond one's blood kin. A self-described "spinster who lives with two cats," she explained that the concept for her 1981 book Friends as Family grew out of her nervous breakdown in 1977, the visits and support she received from friends and acquaintances in the aftermath, and the article she wrote about the experience for Ms. Magazine.[3] [a]
She is an adjunct professor at both UMass Boston and Emerson College[5][dead link] Lindsey is one of the co-signers to Debra Dickerson's 2008 "An Open Letter from American Feminists" in Mother Jones.[6]
Bibliography edit
She is the author of Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII, published by Perseus Books.
- Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, co-written with Susan Love. The book has been included in the curricula for Stanford.[7]
- Lindsay, Karen (1981). Friends as Family. Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807032428.
- and the poetry book, Falling Off the Roof.[8][9]
- Lindsey, Karen (Fall 1970). "Louisa May Alcott: the author of "Little Women" as feminist". Women: A Journal of Liberation. 2.[10] reprinted in Gersoni-Edelman, Diane (1974). Sexism and youth. New York: R.R. Bowker. pp. 244–248. OCLC 790325.[11]
Notes edit
- ^ This wire report was also published as Family Of Friends Seen As A Trend on page 9 of the December 23, 1981 edition of the Toledo Blade[4]
References edit
- ^ Gorman, Hollis (1975-01-16). "Feminist Says Physical Desire Is Cause of Female Oppression". The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ^ Dunning, Jennifer (January 21, 2001). "From a Weekly Routine, A Rare Sense of Kinship; True, they meet mostly to dance. But over the years they've become much more: a consciously chosen family, carved from a city of strangers". The New York Times.
- ^ Krucoff, Carol (1981-12-27). "Families something more than 'blood kin'". Cedar Rapids Gazette. Washington Print Service. p. 35. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
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- ^ Dickerson, Debra J. (2008-01-17). "An Open Letter from American Feminists (And a Raised Fist From Me)". Mother Jones. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ^ "syllabus". Web.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ^ introduction, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived, 1995, Perseus Books, Karen Lindsey
- ^ "Karen Lindsey: Books". Amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ^ Alberghene, Janice M.; Clark, Beverly Lyon, eds. (2014-04-08). LITTLE WOMEN and THE FEMINIST IMAGINATION: Criticism, Controversy, Personal Essays. Routledge. p. xxx. ISBN 9781135593254. Retrieved 2014-07-20.
- ^ "Sexism and youth (Book, 1974)". WorldCat. 1999-02-22. Retrieved 2014-07-20.