Volume 12, Number 1 · January 16, 1969
The Curse
By Margot Hentoff
Up From the Pedestal
edited by Aileen S. Kraditor
Quadrangle Books, 372 pp., $8.95
Thinking About Women
by Mary Ellmann
Harcourt, Brace & World, 240 pp., $4.95
Born Female
by Caroline Bird, by Sara Welles Briller
McKay, 288 pp., $5.95
It is not good luck to be born a woman. Given the choice in advance, who would elect it? It is disagreeable to be part of a lesser class unless that class is both militant and rising. But women, as a class, have their fortunes inextricably bound up with those of their oppressors. They, says Aileen Kraditor, 'have been the only subordinated group that has belonged to the same families as its rulers.'
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