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Pulling Our Own Strings

Feminist Humor and Satire
Edited by Gloria Kaufman and Mary K. Blakely
Distribution: Sales territory is limited to the U.S., Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Canada, and Mexico
Publication date: 11/1/1994
Format: paper 0 pages, illus.
8.5 x 11
ISBN: 978-0-253-20251-2
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“ . . . a wonderful, riotous book.” —Rita Mae Brown

“It’s witty, charming, incisive—and these are the low points!” —Loretta Swit

From Virginia Woolf to Nora Ephron, Elizabeth Cady Stanton to Ntozake Shange, Fanny Fern to Gloria Steinem, Pulling Our Own Strings shows us the roots, the history, and the rich variety of feminist humor and satire.

Author Bio

GLORIA KAUFMAN, now retired, was Director of Women's Studies at Indiana University, South Bend. She has also published poetry and fiction, and edited In Stitches: A Patchwork of Feminist Humor and Satire. She is also a producer/director of several feminist videotapes. MARY KAY BLAKELY is the author of Wake Me When It's Over: A Journey to the Edge and Back, as well as many articles on women's lives and feminist issues.

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Table of Contents

“Dear Gloria” By Mary Kay Blakely
Introduction By Gloria Kaufman

Periodic Hysteria
Rhythm Reds
Becoming a Tampax Junkie By Ivy Bottini
Ragtime
Periodical Bea By E.M. Broner
Splat By Marilyn French
A Person Who Menstruates is Unfit to be a Mother By Hadley V. Baxendale
A Crowd of Commuters By Mary Ellmann
If Men Could Menstruate By Gloria Steinem
Walking The Knife’s Edge By Lisa Alther
Mosquitoes and Menses
To Bear or Not To Bear
New Discoveries Haled as Birth Control Breakthroughs By Jane Field
Superpower Sought On The Contraceptive Front By Carol Troy
Jumbo, Colossal and Supercolossal
To The Editor By Shirley L. Radl
The Natural Masochism of Women By Hadley V. Baxendale
Revolutionary Contraceptive By Roberta Gregory
The Perfect Job For A Pregnant Woman
Making a Clean Breast of Things
A Few Words About Breasts By Nora Ephron
Mammary Glands By Kristin Lems
What Do You Say When A Man Tells You, You Have The Softest Skin By Mary Mackey
Keeping Abreast of What Men Want By Mary Kay Blakely

Untying the Mother Knot
On Sleeping With Your Kids By Alta
The Day’s Work By Barbara Holland
The Pee-In By Sheila Ballantyne
Fairyland Nursery School By Sheila Ballantyne
Molly’s Beginnings By Rita Mae Brown
The Christmas Pageant By Rita Mae Brown
Needle-And-Thread Envy By Sheila Ballantyne
Raising Sons By Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The Pros and Cons of Motherhood By Mary Kay Blakely

Clicking, Clunking, and Clowning
Clicking
A Bargain With The Judge By Florynce Kennedy
Don’t You Wish You Were Liberated Too By Shirley Katz
The Man Was Right By Ellen Goodman
Clunks By Jane O’Reilly
Pandephobium By Sue Held
Clothes Make The Man By Sally Sertin
Untitled By Alta
On Stage With Harrison and Tyler
Clowning with Ivy Bottini
Monumental Prophylactic
Men: Beware the ATR

We Measured 56-480-47-277-30-19, and Now We Measure More!
Carrie Chapman Catt
When Taxes Are Taxing
A Consistent Anti to Her Son By Alice Duer Miller
The Woman Question in 1872 By Fanny Fern
Predictions for 1979 By Yenta
A Flo Kennedy Sampler
The Lifting Power of Woman By Joan Honican
Why We Oppose Votes For Men By Alice Duer Miller
How The Women Sang Their Way Out of Jail By Mary Harris Jones
The Human-Not-Quite-Human By Dorothy Sayers
I Laughed When I Wrote It By Nikki Giovanni
Liberation of the Yale Divinity School Library Men’s Room By Carol P. Christ
We Need A Name For Bernadette Arnold By Joan D. Uebelhoer
On A Different Track By Sharon McDonald

Rape and Other Big Jokes
The Saturday Night Special By Naomi Weisstein
How To Avoid Rape

Laboring Under False Assumptions
A Great Satisfaction By Dorothy Sayers
The Aroma of “Miss” By Virginia Woolf
Marginal Workers By Hadley V. Baxendale
Letter to the Editor By Joan D. Uebelhoer
A Writer’s Interview With Herself By Mary Ellmann
Crooked and Straight in Academia By Susan J. Wolfe and Julia Penelope
The Conference By E.M. Broner
MLA By Mary Mackey

Here Comes The Bride
Lady in Red By Ntozake Shange
Sterner Stuff By Sue Held
Marriage Quickies
Dishwashing & Suicide By Maxine Hong Kingston
The Politics of Housework By Pat Mainardi
We Don’t Need the Men By Malvina Reynolds
Of Bikers, Brides & Butches By Sharon McDonald
What Mother Never Told Me By Sharon McDonald

For All The “Crazy Ladies”
No One Has A Corner On Depression But Housewives Are Working On It By Gabrielle Burton
Multiple Penis Envy By Hadley V. Baxendale
What God Hath Wroth By Charlotte Painter
Mother’s Day Poem By Pauline B. Bart
I’m Sorry, You’re Sorry By Mary Kay Blakely
Don’t Wear Your Guitar, Darling Mother By Shirley Katz
Football By Crazy Hazel Houlihingle
AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! By Sheila Ballantyne

Once Upon A Myth
Application For Employment By Rhoda Lerman
The Creation of Man By Rhoda Lerman
To Whom It May Concern By Rhoda Lerman
Quips Of A High Priestess By Zsuzsanna Budapest
You Are What Is Female By Judy Grahn
The House of Mirrors By Mary Daly
Norma Jean’s Theory By Sheila Ballantyne
Honk If You Think She’s Jesus By Mugsy Peabody
Why Little Girls Are Sugar & Spice and When They Grow Up Become Cheesecake By Una Stannard

S/He-It
A Feminist Alphabet By Eve Merriam
“Him” To The Weather By Judith K. Meuli
Overcoming A Man-nerism By Naomi R. Goldenberg
Talkin’ Gender Neutral Blues By Kristin Lems
An Eight-Letter Word By Mary Ellmann
Letter To The Editor By Patricia Miller
Dear Colleague: I Am Not An Honorary Male By Joanna Russ
Another Name for “Down There” By Sue Held
Pickups, Puns, & Putdowns
Josie Takes The Stand By Ruth Herschberger

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