Subject to debate : sense and dissents on women, politics, and culture / Katha Pollitt.

A collection of articles originally published in the author's column, Subject to debate, in the Nation.

Introduction: feminism at the millennium -- Clara Zetkin Avenue -- National tulip conversation -- Last president -- Communitarianism, no -- Single-sex sexism -- Opinionated women -- "Sex in America" -- School prayer? By all means -- Beggar's opera -- Deadbeat dads: a modest proposal -- Affirmative action begins at home -- We are all Marcia Clark -- Victoria's secret -- Opportunity knocked -- Is marriage like a bran muffin? -- 1945 -- Of grass and guns -- Swish, thwack, boo -- Facts and pundits -- O.J. verdict: while you were sleeping -- Million man mirage -- Where are the women we voted for? -- Kept illusions -- Violence of ordinary life -- No god, no master -- Village idiocy -- French lessons -- Sweet swan of Avon -- Take back the right -- For whom the ball rolls -- Gay marriage? Don't say I didn't warn you -- Pomolotov cocktail -- Adoption fantasy -- Utopia, limited -- Strange death of liberal America -- Of toes and men -- We were wrong: why I'm not voting for Clinton -- First wives, last laugh -- Kissing and telling -- No vote for Clinton? Readers bite back -- Let them eat numbers -- Born again vs. porn again -- Can this marriage be saved? -- Paula Jones, class act? -- Secrets and lies -- Go figure -- Heaven can wait -- When I'm sixty-four -- No sex, please. We're killers. -- About race: can we talk? -- Get thee behind me, Disney -- Honk if you like art -- Thoroughly modern Di -- Free Willie -- Hello, Columbus -- Women and children first -- Madchen in uniform -- Vouching toward Bethlehem -- Race and gender and class, oh my! -- School's out -- Far from Chile? -- Masterpiece theater -- September thong -- Great big baskets of dirty linen -- Poverty: fudging the numbers -- Murder, Inc. -- Precious bodily fluids -- Make love, not war -- People vs. Larry Flynt? -- Let them sell lemonade -- Women's rights: as the world turns -- A Bronx tale -- War and memory -- Natural born killers -- No males need apply? -- Weird science -- Polymaritally perverse -- Catholic bashing? -- Home discomforts -- Death penalty in theory and practice -- Regrets only -- Progressive presidential politics (continued) -- Abortion history 101 -- Underground against the Taliban -- Moms to NRA: grow up! -- Politics of personal responsibility -- Freedom from religion, si! -- Social pseudoscience.

"Subject to Debate, Katha Pollitt's column in The Nation, has offered readers clear-eyed yet provocative observations on women, politics, and culture for more than seven years. Bringing together eighty-eight of her most astute essays on hot-button topics like abortion, affirmative action, and school vouchers, this selection displays the full range of her indefatigable wit and brilliance. Her stirring new Introduction offers a seasoned critique of feminism at the millennium and is a clarion call for renewed activism against social injustice."--Publisher description.

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