Table of Contents:
When You Speak Up by Eve Ensler
Introduction by Amy and Cynthia Greenberg
A Comment, Not Casual, Concerning Anita Hill by Mary Oliver
Part I: WITNESSES: What Happened?
A Thank You Note to Anita Hill by Letty Pogrebin
Twenty Years Later by Dorothy Samuels
I Salute You by Charles Ogletree
Some of Us are Brave by Lani Guinier
Old and New Depictions of Justice: Reflections, circa 2011, on Hill
Thomas by Judith Resnik
The “Big” Story by Catharine MacKinnon
Born 35 by Jamia Wilson
Power Suit by Lisa Kron
Part II: What Does Anita Hill Mean To You? ?
Nita Faye by Asali Devan Ecclesiastes
A conversation with
RHA GODDESS
MELISSA HARRIS-PERRY
EMILY MAY
AI-JEN POO
JOANNE N. SMITH
PAT MITCHELL
Word Power by Hope Anita Smith
Part III: I Still Believe Anita Hill
A Poem for Anita Hill by Kevin Powell (Check formatting)
Anita Hill: Twenty Years Later by Patricia J. Williams
Give Your Child Luggage, Not Your Baggage by Anita Hill
Good Morning Anita Hill by Edwidge Danticat
Part IV: WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED IN 20 YEARS & WHAT COMES NEXT?
The Bloodless Coup by Deborah Copaken Kogan
TK by Kathleen Peratis
Stunned but Not Bowed by Kimberle Crenshaw
Sex & Power by Virginia Valian
Supremacy Crimes by Gloria Steinem
Race & Gender by Devon Carbado
FBomb by Julie Zeilinger
The Scarlett C by Lynn Nottage
APPENDIX
Remembering The Anita Hill Hearings- 20 Years Later by Louise
Slaughter
Twenty Years Later by Maureen Dowd
Anita Hill by Patricia Schroeder
Anita Hill Testimony, October 1991
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Promotion at National Women's Studies Association conference
Promotion on feministpress.org and all the educational, public, and
nonprofit institutions related to the vast array of contributors
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Amy Richards is most popularly known as the co-author of
Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future and as the voice
behind Ask Amy, the online advice column she has run since 1995.
She is also the author of Opting In: Having a Child Without Losing
Yourself and the co-author of Grassroots: A Field Guide for
Feminist Activism. In addition to her writing and consulting, Amy
spends most of her days running the foremost feminist lecture
agency, Soapbox Inc: Speakers Who Speak Out.
Cynthia Greenberg, a former community organizer, works as a
consultant to social justice, human rights, and arts organizations.
She organized the Sex, Power and Speaking Truth: Anita Hill 20
Years Later conference.
"This powerful book preserves the essays and conversations from the October 2011 conference organized at Hunter College for the 20th anniversary of Anita Hill’s testimony at Clarence Thomas’s Senate confirmation hearings. The eloquent results explore the hearings themselvesin which Hill charged that Supreme Court nominee Thomas had sexually harassed heras well as their impact on the legal, social, and cultural landscape, and the lives of the authors.... The essays are by turns personal and analytical, but all are moving and engrossing... These timely essays show us how those historic hearings brought sexual harassment (especially in the workplace) into the public eye, while also revealing what still hasn’t changed, and reminding us of the intersection of race, class, gender, and power that underlies this contentious issue." Publishers Weekly
This volume collects pieces from a conference at Hunter College in 2011, organized to mark the 20th anniversary of the Senate confirmation hearings over Clarence Thomas's appointment as a Supreme Court justice, at which Anita Hill testified against his confirmation. The collection includes essays and poetry from women and a few men, many of whom are well known, e.g., Gloria Steinem, Catharine MacKinnon, and Melissa Harris-Perry, as well as Hill herself. The commentaries acknowledge the disgraceful treatment of Hill at the hands of the all-white, all-male panel chaired by Senator Joseph Biden, who permitted Hill to testify but barred her supporting witnesses. These hearings produced a new awareness of sexual harassment as well as new movements to protect the most powerless of women against the depredations of privileged men. VERDICT There is already a substantial literature on the Clarence Thomas hearings and Hill (e.g., Jane Mayer & Jill Abramson's Strange Justice). These short pieces add little new to the conversation, but may be of interest to newcomers to the topic.-Cynthia Harrison, George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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