Chesler Phyllis. A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement with Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2018. — 320 p. — ISBN10: 9781250094421; ISBN13: 978-1250094421Phyllis Chesler was a pioneer of Second Wave Feminism. Chesler and the women who came out swinging between 1972-1975 integrated the want ads, brought class action lawsuits on behalf of economic discrimination, opened rape crisis lines and shelters for battered women, held marches and sit-ins for abortion and equal rights, famously took over offices and buildings, and pioneered high profile Speak-outs. They began the first-ever national and international public conversations about birth control and abortion, sexual harassment, violence against women, female orgasm, and a woman’s right to kill in self-defense. Now, Chesler has juicy stories to tell. The feminist movement has changed over the years, but Chesler knew some of its first pioneers, including Gloria Steinem, Kate Millett, Flo Kennedy, and Andrea Dworkin. These women were fierce forces of nature, smoldering figures of sin and soul, rock stars and action heroes in real life. Some had been viewed as whores, witches, and madwomen, but were changing the world and becoming major players in history. In A Politically Incorrect Feminist, Chesler gets chatty while introducing the reader to some of feminism's major players and world-changers.Growing up as a girl in America
Am I dreaming or am I awake? Feminist paradise rising
Raising my consciousness and pioneering women's studies
This first-generation American keynotes a historic speak-out on rape and joins a class-action lawsuit
A psychiatrist sues me for $10 million, I publish Women and Madness, and I flee the country
Fame hits hard, thousands of letters arrive, and I marry again
Feminism becomes international
Feminists and the Weather Underground and Lesbian Land on the West Coast
The pornography wars commence, and I host the first feminist Passover seder in America
Do women of color have the right to kill white male rapists in self-defense? Do lesbians have the right to custody of their children?
Our sorely afflicted feminist geniuses
Rape at the UN and an unexpected betrayal by the inveterate scene-stealer
Whistleblowing and the inevitable blowback
Mothers on trial and on the run
I travel the wide world, pray at the Western Wall, and come to the aid of lesbian-feminists under siege in Mississippi
The end of an era and saying goodbye to sister soldiers, brave and true, near and dear