The Great Alta Saga

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Excerpted lines from “Prologue” are reprinted from Undersong, Chosen Poems Old and New, Revised Edition, by Audre Lorde, by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. Copyright © 1992, 1982, 1976, 1974, 1973, 1970, 1968 by Audre Lorde.

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“I Was a Playboy Bunny” originally appeared as a two-part article, “A Bunny’s Tale,” Show magazine, 1963. “Campaigning” includes excerpts from “Coming of Age with McGovern: Notes from a Political Diary,” Ms. magazine, October 1972, 39. “The City on the Eve of Destruction” coauthored by Lloyd Weaver, New York magazine, 1968. “Trying to Love Eugene,” New York magazine, 1968. “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nixon,” New York magazine, 1968. “Nelson Rockefeller: The Sound of One Hand Clapping,” New York magazine, 1969. “Sisterhood” was published in Ms. magazine, 1972. “College Reunion” originally appeared as “Reunions: When College Never Ends,” Ms. magazine, September 1981, 30. “Words and Change” is excerpted from “The Way We Were – and Will Be,” Ms. magazine, 1979, and “The Stage Is Set,” Ms. magazine, July/August 1982, 77. “In Praise of Women’s Bodies” was published in Ms. magazine, April 1981, 28. “The Importance of Work” was published as “Why Do Women Work?”, Ms. magazine, March 1979, 45. “The Time Factor,” Ms. magazine, March 1980, 45. “Men and Women Talking” was published as “The Politics of Talking in Groups: How to Win the Game and Change the Rules,” Ms. magazine, May 1981, 43. “The Politics of Food,” Ms. magazine, February 1980, 48. “Networking” was published as “How to Survive Burn-Out, Reagan, and Daily Life: Create Psychic Turf,” Ms. magazine, February 1982, 95. “Transsexualism” was published as “If the Shoe Doesn’t Fit, Change the Foot,” Ms. magazine, February 1977, 76. “Why Young Women Are More Conservative” was published as “The Good News Is: These Are Not the Best Years of Your Life,” Ms. magazine, September 1979, 64. “Erotica vs. Pornography” is adapted from “Erotica and Pornography: A Clear and Present Difference,” Ms. magazine, November 1978, 53, and “Pornography – Not Sex but the Obscene Use of Power,” Ms. magazine, August 1977, 43. “Marilyn Monroe: The Woman Who Died Too Soon,” Ms. magazine, August 1972, 35. “Patricia Nixon Flying” is an excerpt from “In Your Heart You Know He’s Nixon,” published in New York magazine, 1968. “The Real Linda Lovelace” was published as “Linda Lovelace’s ‘Ordeal’: ‘Tell me, Linda, what in your background led you to a concentration camp?’,” Ms. magazine, May 1980, 72. “Jackie Reconsidered” was published as “Gloria Steinem on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis,” Ms. magazine, March 1979, 46. “Do You Know This Woman? She Knows You: A Profile of Alice Walker” was published in Ms. magazine, June 1982, 35. “Houston and History” is adapted from “An Introductory Statement,” What Women Want: The National Women’s Conference, Simon and Schuster, 1979. “The International Crime of Genital Mutilation,” Ms. magazine, March 1979, 65. “Rx Fantasies: For Temporary Relief of Pain Due to Injustice…,” was published in Ms. magazine, July 1980, 99. “If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?” was published in two parts: “The Nazi Connection: If Hitler Were Alive, Whose Side Would He Be On?” and “The Nazi Connection: Authoritarianism Begins at Home,” Ms. magazine, October 1980, 88 and November 1980, 14. “Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher,” Ms. magazine, November, 1981, 22. “Night Thoughts of a Media Watcher” was published in Ms. magazine, 1981 and combined with parts of “The Draft: Who Needs It?”, Ms. magazine, April 1980, 20. “If Men Could Menstruate” was first broadcast as a CBS Spectrum, 1977, then expanded in Ms. magazine, October 1978, 110. “Far from the Opposite Shore” was published as “Far from the Opposite Shore: How to Survive Though a Feminist,” Ms. magazine, July 1978, 65, and “The Stage Is Set,” Ms. magazine, July/August 1982, 77. “January 10, 1973” is from Goodnight Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning by Alice Walker. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and the Julian Bach Literary Agency, Inc. “Playboy’s Theme” is used by permission of copyright owner Edwin H. Morris & Company, Inc.

The author is grateful for permission to reprint the following copyright material:

Excerpt from “The Network of the Mother” from Upstairs in the Garden, Poems Selected and New, 1968-1988, by Robin Morgan. Copyright © 1990 by Robin Morgan. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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