The Essential Ellen Willis

Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: TranscendenceNona Willis Aronowitz
• The Sixties: Up from Radicalism
• IntroductionSara Marcus
• Up from Radicalism: A Feminist Journal (US Magazine, 1969)
• Dylan (Cheetah, 1967)
• The Cultural Revolution Saved from Drowning (The New Yorker, September 1969)
• Women and the Myth of Consumerism (Ramparts, 1970)
• Talk of the Town: Hearing (The New Yorker, February 1969)
• The Seventies: Exile on Main Street
• IntroductionIrin Carmon
• Beginning to See the Light (Village Voice, 1977)
• Janis Joplin (Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock 'n' Roll, 1980)
• Classical and Baroque Sex in Everyday Life (Village Voice, May 1979)
• Memoirs of a Non-Prom Queen (Rolling Stone, August 1976)
• The Trial of Arline Hunt (Rolling Stone, 1975)
• Abortion: Is a Woman a Person? (Village Voice, March and April 1979)
• Abortion Backlash: Women Lose (Rolling Stone, November 1977)
• Sexual Counterrevolution I (Rolling Stone, March 1977)
• Feminism, Moralism, and Pornography (Village Voice, October and November 1979)
• The Family: Love It or Leave It (Village Voice, September 1979)
• Tom Wolfe's Failed Optimism (Village Voice, 1977)
• The Velvet Underground (Stranded, by Greil Marcus, 1979)
• Next Year in Jerusalem (Rolling Stone, April 1977)
• The Eighties: Coming Down Again
• IntroductionAnn Friedman
• Toward a Feminist Sexual Revolution (Social Text, Fall 1982)
• Lust Horizons: Is the Women's Movement Pro-Sex? (Village Voice, June 1981)
• The Last Unmarried Person in America (Village Voice, July 1981)
• Teenage Sex: A Modesty Proposal (Village Voice, October 1986)
• Sisters under the Skin? Confronting Race and Sex (Village Voice Literary Supplement, June 1982)
• Radical Feminism and Feminist Radicalism (Social Text, Summer 1984)
• Escape from New York (Village Voice, July 1981)
• Coming Down Again: After the Age of Excess (Village Voice, January 1989)
• The Drug War: From Vision to Vice (Village Voice, April 1986)
• The Drug War: Hell No, I Won't Go (Village Voice, September 1989)
• Handle with Care: We Need a Child-Rearing Movement (Village Voice, July 1986)
• To Emma, with Love (Village Voice, December 1989)
• The Nineties: Decade of Denial
• IntroductionCord Jefferson
• Selections from Decade of Denial (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• Ending Poor People As We Know Them (Village Voice, December 1994)
• What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about The Bell Curve (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• Rodney King's Revenge (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• Million Man Mirage (Village Voice, November 1995)
• Monica and Barbara and Primal Concerns (The New York Times, March 1999)
• Villains and Victims (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• 'Tis Pity He's a Whore (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• Is Motherhood Moonlighting? (Newsday, March 1991)
• Say It Loud: Out of Wedlock and Proud (Newsday, February 1994)
• Bring in the Noise (The Nation, April 1996)
• Intellectual Work in the Culture of Austerity (Don't Think, Smile!, 2000)
• The Aughts: Our Politics, Ourselves
• IntroductionSpencer Ackerman
• The Democrats and Left Masochism (New Politics, Summer 2001)
• Why I'm Not for Peace (Radical Society, April 2002)
• Confronting the Contradictions (Dissent, Summer 2003)
• The Mass Psychology of Terrorism (Implicating Empire, edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Heather Gautney, and Clyde W. Barrow, 2003)
• Bringing the Holy War Home (The Nation, November 2001)
• Dreaming of War (The Nation, September 2001)
• Freedom from Religion (The Nation, February 2001)
• Our Mobsters, Ourselves (The Nation, March 2001)
• Is There Still a Jewish Question?: Why I'm an Anti-Anti-Zionist (Wrestling with Zion, edited by Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, 2003)
• Ghosts, Fantasies, and Hope (Dissent, Fall 2005)
• Escape from Freedom: What's the Matter with Tom Frank? (And the Lefties Who Love Him) (Situations, 2006)
• Three Elegies for Susan Sontag (New Politics, Summer 2005)
• Coda: Selections from "The Cultural Unconscious in American Politics: Why We Need a Freudian Left" ?