Up against the wall, mother ... : On women's liberation / Elsie Adams, Mary Louise Briscoe.Briscoe.

Includes bibliographical references.

Part one. The Traditional View of Women. The Second Sex ; The Creation and the Fall, from Genesis ; A Jewish Prayer ; The Unclean Woman, from Leviticus ; Catholic Teaching on Women / W.B. Faherty ; God and Satan, Adam and Eve, from Paradise Lost / John Milton ; The Nature of Elizabethan Woman / Carroll Camden ; Some Psychical Consequences of the Anatomical Distinction between the Sexes / Sigmund Freud ; The Womanly Image: Character Assassination through the Ages - Woman-as-Object. Woman in the Elizabethan Sonnet: Poems by Spenser and Shakespeare ; The Victorian Woman / Anonymous ; On Playboys and Bunnies / H.M. Hefner ; In Memoriam: Sex and the Single Girl ; Princess Grace Turns Forty / William B. Arthur ; Achieving Womanhood / William H. Grier and Price M. Cobbs ; The Bride of Frankenstein / Edward Field - Woman-as-Enemy. Tickets, Please / D.H. Lawrence ; Faustine / Algernon Charles Swinburne ; from S.C.U.M. Manifesto / Valerie Solanas ; Common Women / Philip Wylie ; from Lysistrata / Aristophanes - Die ewige Weibliche. The Goddess, from The Golden Ass / Apuleius ; True Woman - Herself / John Millington Synge ; The Witch's Kitchen, from Faust / Goethe ; Three Poems / Robert Graves ; Karintha / Jean Toomer - Part two. The Nature of Woman. Who Is She? ; from The Subjection of Women / John Stuart Mill ; from The Mill on the Floss / George Eliot ; Women - Man in Petticoats / Bernard Shaw ; Political and Civil Status of Women as of January 1, 1969 / U.S. Department of Labor ; The Matriarchal Myth / Eve Merriam ; "X" Doesn't Equal "Y" / Ashley Montagu ; Three Sexual Myths Exploded / Ruth and Edward Brecher ; The Myth of the Vaginal Orgasm / Anne Koedt ; Psychology Constructs the Female, or The Fantasy Life of the Male Psychologist / Naomi Weisstein - Part three. Adjustment For Survival. The "Better Half" ; The Monogamous Family / Frederich Engles ; From A Doll's House / Henrik Isben ; The Problem that Has No Name / Betty Friedan ; from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis ; To Room Nineteen / Doris Lessing ; Story of Mrs. W---- / Dorothy Parker ; The Mother / Gwendolyn Brooks ; Man and Wife / Anne Sexton ; Communes: A Footnote for the Future / Mary Louise Briscoe - The Working Woman. Women in the Labor Force / U.S. Department of Labor ; On Day Care / Louise Gross and Phyllis Mac Ewan ; The Morning Half-Life Blues / Marge Piercy ; from Mrs. Warren's Profession / Bernard Shaw ; The Invisible Bar / Caroline Bird ; Fail: Bright Women / Matina Horner ; Her Story / Naomi Long Madgett ; from A Room of One's Own / Virginia Woolf ; The Renaissance Woman? / Carroll Camden ; The Problems of Creative Women / Marya Mannes - Part four. Toward Freedom. Why Women's Liberation? / Marlene Dixon ; On the Pernicious Effects which Arise from the Unnatural Distinctions Established in Society / Mary Wollstonecraft ; Sojourner Truth: One Women's Rights / Francis D. Gage ; from A Doll's House / Henrik Isben ; from Main Street / Sinclair Lewis ; The Changing Women / Stan Steiner ; One Woman's Lib / Joan Jones ; On Sisterhood / Dana Densmore ; Women of Lesbos / Martha Shelley ; On Celibacy / Dana Densmore ; Abortion: Women, Men and the Law / William Lafferty ; Man's Role in Women's Liberation / Mary Louise Briscoe and Elsie Adams.