Feminist Book Review: Dear Sisters, edited by Rosanlyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon

Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement -- Broadsides, Cartoons, Manifestos and Other Documents From the Twentieth Century's Most Influential Movement

Holy shit, this book is awesome.

Dear Sisters is a collection of second wave feminist writings. Each document is about one to four pages long, and comes from an extremely diverse pool of feminist groups; e.g., white middle class college students, poor blacks, Mexican immigrants, lesbian groups, socialists, capitalists, etc.

What makes Dear Sisters so exciting is you never know what you will read next. Each document represents its own version of its own group. The documents sometimes contradict each other, and sometimes critique each other. Sometimes you will see two groups, which are separate geographically and culturally, having the same problems and proposing the same solutions.

I highly suggest this book to anyone interested in second wave feminism, and I especially recommend this book to those who also like to read in the bathroom.