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An excerpt from the first radical feminist novel

It was always the same story, in subways or suburbs. From my beginnings in Baybury Heights, a nice neighborhood where we moved because it was “safe,” it was always the girl who was kept in the house after school if a boy molested her, never the boy. Ostensibly she was ...

Sex & Gender

We Were All Ex-Prom Queens

Alix Kates Shulman on sexism, consciousness raising and the re-issue of a classic feminist novel.

October 7, 2019 • by Claire Potter and Alix Kates Shulman

This interview has been edited for clarity and length. Alix Kates Shulman [AKS]: In 1968, the first national demonstration of the women’s liberation movement took place on September seventh in Atlantic City. It was the protest against the Miss America Pageant. And as we were marching for hours and hours carrying ...

Alix Kates Shulman

Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen

An excerpt from the first radical feminist novel

We Were All Ex-Prom Queens

Alix Kates Shulman on sexism, consciousness raising and the re-issue of a classic feminist novel.

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