“How much do you make things happen or let them happen to you?” “Can women be happy alone?” – questions such as these form the basis of a series of interviews with women, from heiresses to factory workers, conducted in the 1960s by the British writer Nell Dunn; as a reissue of Talking To Women appears Kate Webb introduces us to this seminal feminist text. And Patricia J. Williams discusses the role and lingering influence of the Progressive Era's 'American Plan' to stamp out immorality through policies including compulsory STD tests and government-endorsed sterilization
Books
Talking To Women by Nell Dunn
Fixing the Poor: Eugenic sterilization and child welfare in the twentieth century by Molly Ladd-Taylor
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, surveillance, and the decades-long government plan to imprison 'promiscuous' women by Scott W. Stern
Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
A Cure for Twixmas
Worlds of Pure Imagination
From Paris To The Prairies
There May Be Trouble Ahead
Silently And Very Fast
Charm School
Back Of The Net!
Lost In Space
The Handmaids' Tales
History in the Making
Finding Tongues In Trees
Punching Above Their Weight
Sing, O muses!
Elegies And Energies
Back To The Future
Back to School!
Power Play
To the Scriptorium!
Nevertheless, They Persisted
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