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2. Sex wars [2005]
- Piercy, Marge.
- 1st ed. - New York : William Morrow, c2005.
- Description
- Book — 411 p. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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Post-Civil War New York City was the battleground of the American dream: an era of vast fortunes and crushing poverty; a time notorious for free love and the emerging rights of women, yet one that saw the rise of brutal sexual repression and the enforcement of prejudice. Though life was hard, the promise of change was in the air. Women were agitating for civil rights, including the vote. Immigrants were pouring into the city, bringing with them a new energy. Embodying the times is Freydeh, a spirited young Jewish woman from Russia. Living in a tiny tenement flat with eight others, Freydeh juggles numerous jobs to earn passage to New York for her beloved family. Then she learns that her younger sister is adrift somewhere in the city and begins a search that carries her through brothels and prison. Interwoven with Freydeh's story is a vividly wrought account of such real-life heroines -- often at odds with the law as well as societal customs -- as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president and an activist for sexual freedom. They were tireless fighters who strove to elevate the position of all women. Depicted as well is the fundamentalist crusader Anthony Comstock, who fought to eliminate sexual expression, pushing for the passage of laws that still haunt our legal system. In the tradition of her World War II epic Gone to Soldiers, Marge Piercy re-creates a turbulent period in American history witnessed through the lives of its most notorious figures and explores the changing attitudes toward women, minorities, religion, and sexuality in nineteenth-century America, a land of sacrifice, suffering, promise, and reward.
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- Piercy, Marge.
- Wellfleet, Mass. : Leapfrog Press, c1999.
- Description
- Book — xi, 157 p. ; 21 cm.
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4. What are big girls made of? [1997]
- Piercy, Marge.
- 1st ed. - New York : Alfred Knopf, 1997.
- Description
- Book — x, 159 p. ; 21 cm.
- Summary
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What Are Big Girls Made Of? is full of poems - funny, serious, angry, delightful - that illumine the experience of being a woman. The title poem is a lament for women who allow themselves to be caught in the painful dilemma of being "retooled, refitted and redesigned" to match the style of every decade. Others extol the salty pleasures of middle age: making love with a familiar and adored partner; the ease with which one comes to accept one's body - a good belly, for example, is "a maternal cushion radiating comfort, " handed down from mother to daughter like a prize feather quilt. Some of the book's most beautiful poems are about the precarious balance of nature: white butterflies mating "in Labor Day morning steam" (a poem for Rosh Hashana); a little green snake slithering back to the camouflage safety of grass; the cool song of an October lunar eclipse, as opposed to the dangerous implications of the sun's disappearance; the death of an exquisite doe. Appropriately, from a poet who so winningly celebrates life in all its many variations, the book ends with the moving and simple "The Art of Blessing the Day": "Bless whatever you can/with eyes and hands and tongue. If you/can't bless it, get ready to make it new.".
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5. The longings of women : a novel [1994]
- Piercy, Marge.
- 1st ed. - New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1994.
- Description
- Book — 455 p. ; 24 cm.
- Summary
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Marge Piercy has explored and exposed the uneasy alliances between women, men, and society in acclaimed novels at once serious and sensual, provocative and accessible. Now comes her breakthrough novel, a big, affecting story of three women whose lives intersect at a moment of crisis.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)
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