Best of
Social-Issues

1988

Talking Back: Thinking Feminist, Thinking Black


bell hooks - 1988
    bell hooks writes about the meaning of feminist consciousness in daily life and about self-recovery, about overcoming white and male supremacy, and about intimate relationships, exploring the point where the public and private meet.

The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business


Gabrielle Palmer - 1988
    In her powerful book Gabrielle Palmer describes how big business uses subtle techniques to pressure parents to use alternatives to breastmilk. The infant feeding product companies’ thirst for profit systematically undermines mothers’ confidence in their ability to breastfeed their babies. An essential and inspirational eye-opener, The Politics of Breastfeeding challenges our complacency about how we feed our children and radically reappraises a subject which concerns not only mothers, but everyone: man or woman, parent or childless, old or young.3rd fully revised and updated edition.

A Piece of My Heart


Shirley Lauro - 1988
    The play portrays each young woman before, during, and after her tour in the war torn jungle and ends as each leaves a personal token at The Wall in Washington.A Piece of My Heart premiered in New York at Manhattan Theatre Club, and now has enj

Regulating the Lives of Women: Social Welfare Policy from Colonial Times to the Present (Revised Edition)


Mimi Abramovitz - 1988
    This important book looks at the changes in AFDC, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance, and welfare "reform." This new edition reveals how welfare policy scapegoats women more than ever to justify widespread retrenchment and to divert the public's attention from the real causes of the nation's mounting economic woes.

Back Rooms: Voices from the Illegal Abortion Era


Ellen Messer - 1988
    Wade, the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion. "Back Rooms" presents the moving testimony of women—and men - who cannot forget. This landmark oral history vividly conveys the stark choices women with unwanted pregnancies faced before abortion was legalized. Here are poignant stories of illegal 'back-room' abortions and harrowing accounts of self-induced miscarriages, as well as the testimony of women who were forced to give birth on society's terms, not their own. At a time when mounting pressure from anti-abortion activists increasingly challenges the Roe v. Wade decision, this book lends authority and moral clarity to the pro-choice position.

The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left


Stuart Hall - 1988
    Hall's critical approach is elaborated here in essays on the formation of the SDP, inner city riots, the Falklands War and the signficance of Antonio Gramsci. He suggests that Thatcherism is skillfully employing the restless and individualistic dynamic of consumer capitalism to promote a swingeing programme of 'regressive modernization'.The Hard Road to Renewal is as concerned with elaborating a new politics for the Left as it is with the project of the Right. Hall insists that the Left can no longer trade on inherited politics and tradition. Socialists today must be as radical as modernity itself. Valuable pointers to a new politics are identified in the experience of feminism, the campaigns of the GLC and the world-wide response to Band Aid.

The War Poets: An Anthology


Siegfried SassoonThomas M. Kettle - 1988
    A collection of poems written by notable poets of the twentieth century, many of whom saw front line action first hand, including Rudyard Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen.