Product Description: "She's a radical feminist. She's just a wife. She's Emma Goldman in a pantsuit. She's a corporate sellout. She's a liberal. She's conservative. She'll move all women forward. Yeah, right: The only woman she cares about is herself...read more

Product Description: Learning to Drive • Now a major motion picture starring Patricia Clarkson and Ben KingsleyCelebrated for her award-winning political columns, criticism, and poetry, Katha Pollitt now shows us another side of her talent. Learning to Drive is a surprising, revealing, and entertaining collection of essays drawn from the author’s own life...read more

Product Description: In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between the real and the transcendent, between our outer and inner selves: Jane Austen slides her manuscript under her blotter, bewildered young mothers chat politely on the playground, the simple lines of a Chinese bowl in a thrift store remind the poet of the only apparent simplicities of her childhood...read more

The columnist for 'The Nation' presents a selection of eighty essays that offer a definitive critique of modern feminism, call on readers to put their principles into action, and explore the role of leadership among contemporary women.

The controversial Nation columnist presents a new compilation of essays addressing some of the most important and provocative issues of the time, from creationism and the Terri Schiavo right to die case to sexual orientation, human rights, and equality. Original. 20,000 first printing.

Collects feminist writings from a range of international contributors on religious fundamentalism and women's oppression, citing the causes of violence against women in Muslim countries and in the west while considering its role in current and historical events. Original.

The poet and columnist shares a collection of essays on women and feminism today, discussing such topics as abortion, the Clarence Thomas hearings, surrogate mothers, rape, male-female relationships, and gun control (view table of contents)

Poems explore a diversity of subjects including ballet, Japanese paintings, and a satirical view of vegetables