Katha Pollitt
Basics:
Twenty Required Readings. Katha Pollitt & John Judis, Mother Jones (7-8/96).
Katha Pollitt: Freethought Heroine. Katha Pollitt (to Freedom from Religion Foundation, 1995).
On the Web: Specialized Sites
Pollitt, Katha. "Why we read: canon to the right of me," Nation (9/23/91):328-332.
__________.“In the middle of the muddle,” Nation (5/25/92):718. The debate on abortion.
__________. "Dan, Murph & me: why I hate 'family values' (let me count the ways)," Nation (7/20/92):88-93.
__________. "The other L word," Nation (9/8/97):10. On what is "left" today.
__________. "Murder Inc." Nation (11/16/98):9. Violence & the anti-abortion movement.
__________. "Polymaritally perverse," Nation (10/4/99):10. Mormons & polygamy.
__________. "The death penalty in theory & practice," Nation (3/6/00):10.
__________. “Analyze this,” Nation (4/30/01):10.
__________. "Cold comfort," Nation (6/11/10):10. Japanese Army & World War II sexual slavery.
__________. "Put out no flags," Nation (10/8/01):9.
__________. "After the Taliban," Nation (12/17/01):10.
__________. "Pierre Bourdieu, 1930-2002," Nation (2/18/02):10.
__________. "Justice, not so swift," Nation (3/18/02):10. Miscarriage of justice in 1980s child sex abuse cases.
__________.“God changes everything,” Nation (4/1/02):10.
__________. "Backlash babies," Nation (5/13/02):10.
__________. "Can you spell cannon fodder?" Nation (11/11/02):9.
__________. "Poetry makes nothing happen? Ask Laura Bush," Nation (2/24/03):9.
__________. "In the waiting room," Nation (4/21/03):9.
__________. "Pride & prejudice," Nation (5/5/03):9.
__________. “Weapons of mass delusion?,” Nation (5/19/03):9.
__________. "Bah, humbug," Nation (6/2/03):9. On Bill Bennett & his vice of gambling.
__________. "Adam & Steve -- together at last," Nation (12/15/03):9.
__________. "Webstalker," New Yorker (1/19/04):38-42. On the experience of tracking a person over the Internet.
In the Library: Non-Fiction Books
Pollitt, Katha. Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women & Feminism (NY: Knopf, 1994).
__________. Subject to Debate: Sense & Dissents on Women, Politics & Culture (NY: Modern Library, 2001).
In the Library: Poetry
Pollitt, Katha. Antarctic Traveller: Poems (NY: Knopf, 1981).
In the Library: Photography
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