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'''Alix Kates Shulman''' (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, |
'''Alix Kates Shulman''' (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of [[second-wave feminism]]. She is best-known for her bestselling debut adult novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'' (Knopf, 1972), hailed by the ''Oxford Companion to Women's Writing'' as "the first important novel to emerge from the [[Women's liberation movement|Women's Liberation Movement]]."<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/acref/9780195066081.001.0001/acref-9780195066081-e-0734?rskey=bOOZWX&result=721 |title=The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States |chapter=Shulman, Alix Kates |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1995 |isbn=978-0-19-506608-1 |editor-last=Davidson |editor-first=Cathy |editor-last2=Wagner-Martin |editor-first2=Linda}}</ref> |
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Her books have been translated into 12 languages. She has taught writing and women's literature widely in the U.S., including at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu), where she held the Citizens Chair, New York University, The New School, the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Yale University. She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |title=Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |year=2006 |editor-last=Love |editor-first=Barbara}}</ref> |
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==Early life and education== |
==Early life and education== |
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Shulman was born in [[Cleveland]], [[Ohio]], on August 17, 1932, to Dorothy Davis Kates, a community organizer,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Finding aid for the Dorothy Davis Kates Papers|url=http://ead.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ead/view?docId=ead/OCLWHi0298.xml;query=;brand=default|access-date=2021-10-09|website=ead.ohiolink.edu}}</ref> and Samuel Simon Kates, a labor arbitrator. |
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After attending Cleveland Heights public schools, in 1953 she received a BA in history and philosophy from [[Case Western Reserve University|Western Reserve University]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Did You Know: Alix Kates Shulman |url=https://thedaily.case.edu/know-alix-kates-shulman/ |website=The Daily|date=March 20, 2018 }}</ref> She then moved to New York City to study philosophy at the [[Columbia University|Columbia University Graduate School]] and later received an MA in Humanities from [[New York University]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=Spring 2012 |title=Alumni Notes |url=https://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/gallatin/documents/publications/NYU_GT_Spring_2012.pdf |work=Gallatin Today |publisher=New York University}}</ref> She was an early member of the feminist organization [[Redstockings]].<ref>[http://www.alixkshulman.com/bio.htm Biography], alixkshulman.com, accessed online 11 July 2007.</ref> |
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==Writing== |
==Writing career== |
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==="A Marriage Agreement"=== |
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Shulman first emerged as the author of the controversial essay "A Marriage Agreement",<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title=Alix Kates Shulman|url=https://jwa.org/feminism/shulman-alix-kates|website=Jewish Women's Archive}}</ref> which proposed that women and men split childcare and housework equally, and detailed a way of doing so. Originally published in the small feminist journal ''Up From Under'' in August 1970, it was widely reprinted in large-circulation mainstream magazines like ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'' and ''[[Redbook]]'', as well as in the premier issue of [[Ms. (magazine)|''Ms.'' magazine]]; it subsequently appeared in a number of anthologies, including a Harvard textbook on [[contract law]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Do We Need Marriage Agreements? {{!}} Psychology Today|url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/homeward-bound/201305/do-we-need-marriage-agreements|access-date=2021-10-09|website=psychologytoday.com|language=en}}</ref> |
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=== Fiction === |
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Shulman first emerged as the author of the controversial "A Marriage Agreement" (see it under "External links" below) which proposes that women and men split childcare and housework equally and details a method for doing so. Originally published in the feminist journal ''Up From Under'' in 1969, it was widely reproduced in magazines (''Life'', ''Redbook'', ''Ms.'', ''New York'') and anthologies, including a Harvard textbook on contract law. It continues to be debated, for instance in January 2007 in a ''Washington Post Blog''.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/onbalance/2007/01/marriage_contracts.html | work=The Washington Post | title=Marriage Contracts}}</ref> |
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Following several children's books, Shulman's first adult novel, the seriocomic million-copy ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'' (Knopf, 1972), was published. A feminist classic, it is the coming-of-age story, from childhood through motherhood, of middle-class, white, sexually precocious and emotionally confused Sasha Davis, as she navigates the pressures, discrimination, and absurdities facing a pre-feminist mid-20th-century young woman of ambition. Almost continuously in print since 1972, it was reissued in a 25th anniversary edition in 1997 by Penguin, a 35th anniversary "Feminist Classics" edition in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG), as an e-book in 2012 by Open Road, and in many foreign language editions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=editions of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen |url=https://www.goodreads.com/work/editions/1058499-memoirs-of-an-ex-prom-queen |website=GoodReads}}</ref> |
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Her next book, ''Burning Questions'' (Knopf, 1978), is a historical novel about the rise of the [[women's liberation movement]] in late 1960s New York City, an experience Shulman knew firsthand. A fictional autobiography of a white middle-class rebel conscious of class ironies, the novel presents the new movement in a historical tradition of radical and revolutionary women, and “chronicles the important changes in women’s lives and consciousness wrought by contemporary feminism.”<ref name=":0" /> A 2017 literary blog described ''Burning Questions'' as "the best, most accurate historical novel I have read about the [[Women's liberation movement|Women's Liberation Movement]]."<ref>{{Cite web|title=Alix Kates Shulman|url=https://mirabiledictu.org/tag/alix-kates-shulman/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=mirabile dictu|date=July 6, 2017 |language=en}}</ref> |
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Three years later, following several children's books, Shulman published her first adult novel, the bestselling ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen'' (Knopf, 1972), which examines the contradictions and pressures on a young woman of the pre-feminist 1940s, '50s, and '60s, through the story of Sasha Davis from childhood through marriage and motherhood. Almost continuously in print, it was reissued in a 25th anniversary edition in 1997 by Penguin, a 35th anniversary "Feminist Classics" edition in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and as an ebook in 2012 by Open Road. |
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''On the Stroll'' (Knopf, 1981), her third novel, takes on the themes of homelessness, sexual exploitation, and prostitution through the story of a shopping-bag lady and a teenage runaway who is preyed upon by a pimp, over the course of one summer.<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 16, 1981 |title=Books of The Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/09/16/books/books-of-the-times-171565.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> |
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Her second novel, ''Burning Questions'' (Knopf, 1978), recreates the rise of the women's liberation movement and sets it in a historical context. Her third novel, ''On the Stroll'' (Knopf, 1981), takes on the themes of homelessness and abuse through the story of a shopping-bag lady and a teenage runaway who is preyed upon by a pimp, over the course of one summer. Her fourth novel, ''In Every Woman's Life...'' (Knopf, 1987), explores marriage, children, and singleness in a contemporary comedy of manners. After that, in her next three books, she turned to memoirs: ''Drinking the Rain'' (FSG, 1995), about her experience of living alone on an island without electricity, road, or phone, as she undergoes a midlife change; ''A Good Enough Daughter'' (Random House [Schocken], 1997), about her life as a daughter to loving parents whom she sees through to their deaths; and ''To Love What Is'' (FSG, 2008), an account of caring for her husband following a 2004 accident that left him seriously brain-impaired. |
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Her fourth novel, ''In Every Woman's Life...'' (Knopf, 1987), is both a comedy of manners and a novel of ideas. It explores marriage and singleness in light of the social changes brought by [[second-wave feminism]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=May 31, 1987 |title=Summer Reading; Yes to Family, No to Monogamy |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/31/books/summer-reading-yes-to-family-no-to-monogamy.html |work=The New York Times}}</ref> |
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In 2012 she published her fifth novel, ''Menáge'' (Other Press), a comedy of manners satirizing the rich and the literary life; and a collection of essays, ''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'' (Open Road). In addition, she has written two books on anarchist-feminist [[Emma Goldman]]: the biography ''To The Barricades'' (T.Y.Crowell, 1971) and ''Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader'' (Random House, 1972). Except for her three children's books (''Bosley on the Number Line'' [McKay, 1970], ''Finders Keepers'' [Bradbury Press, 1971], ''Awake or Asleep'' [Addison Wesley, 1971]), all her titles are available as ebooks. |
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''Ménage'' (Other Press, 2012), Shulman's fifth novel, represents a return to fiction after a twenty-five-year departure to memoir. A satire of the wealthy one percent and the literary life, ''Ménage'' explores what happens when a real-estate developer and his restless wife invite a literary star to live with them in their mansion. ''Ménage'' was described in reviews as “delightfully wicked, verging on the malevolent” (Kirkus Reviews)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alix-kates-shulman/menage/|title=MÉNAGE {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref> and "wickedly funny." (Boston Globe)<ref>{{Cite web|title='Running With the Kenyans,' 'Ménage,' 'The Omnivorous Mind' - The Boston Globe|url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/books/2012/05/12/capsule-reviews-running-with-kenyans-passion-adventure-with-secrets-fastest-people-earth-menage-food-the-omnivorous-mind-our-evolving-relationship/IXIgoIpqMgj7rE39paWkfP/story.html|access-date=2021-10-09|website=BostonGlobe.com|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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Shulman has taught writing and women's literature widely in the U.S., including at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu), where she held the Citizens Chair in 1991-2, New York University, New School University, the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Yale. She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Case Western Reserve University in 2001. |
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=== Memoirs === |
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In the 1990s Shulman turned from fiction to memoir.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Books by Alix Kates Shulman |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/authorpage/alix-kates-shulman.html |website=Publishers Weekly}}</ref> ''Drinking the Rain'' (FSG, 1995) recounts her experience of going off at age fifty to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine, without electricity, plumbing, road, or phone. As she is thrown back on herself, she learns to love solitude, independence, and the natural world. ''Drinking the Rain'' won a 1995 Body Mind Spirit Award of Excellence and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist {{!}} Book awards {{!}} LibraryThing|url=https://www.librarything.com/bookaward/Los+Angeles+Times+Book+Prize+finalist|access-date=2021-10-09|website=www.librarything.com}}</ref> |
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''A Good Enough Daughter'' (Random House, Schocken Books, 1999) is a memoir of her life as a daughter to loving parents, to whom she returns in their old age to see them through their final years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 2, 1999 |title=A Good Enough Daughter |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alix-kates-shulman/a-good-enough-daughter/ |website=Kirkus Reviews}}</ref> |
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''To Love What Is'' (FSG, 2008) is Shulman's account of caring for her husband following a 2004 accident that left him seriously brain-impaired. In it she describes their half-century-long love affair and the ways they adapted their lives to his increasing disability.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 8, 2008 |title=Enduring Love |url=https://observer.com/2008/10/enduring-love/ |website=The Observer}}</ref> |
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=== Non-fiction === |
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In 2021 [[Library of America]] published ''Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can'', an anthology of major writings of [[Second-wave feminism|feminism’s second wave]], 1963-1991, co-edited by Shulman and [[Honor Moore]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Nonfiction Book Review: Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can by Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore. Library of America, $39.95 (592p) ISBN 978-1-59853-678-2|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59853-678-2|access-date=2021-10-09|website=PublishersWeekly.com|date=February 16, 2021 |language=en}}</ref> |
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In 2012, the essay collection ''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'' was published by Open Road.<ref>{{Cite news |title=A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays |url=https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/a-marriage-agreement-and-other-essays/9781453250136 |work=Open Road Media}}</ref> |
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Her other non-fiction includes two books on anarchist-feminist [[Emma Goldman]]: the biography ''To The Barricades'' (T.Y.Crowell, 1971), which was a ''New York Times'' Outstanding Book of the Year,<ref>{{Cite news|date=1971-11-07|title=Outstanding Books of the Year|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/11/07/archives/outstanding-books-of-the-year.html|access-date=2021-10-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and ''Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader'' (Random House, 1972). Except for her three children's books–''Bosley on the Number Line'' (David McKay, 1970), ''Finders Keepers'' (Bradbury Press, 1971), and ''Awake or Asleep'' (Addison Wesley, 1971)–all her titles are available as e-books.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alix Kates Shulman |url=https://openroadmedia.com/contributor/alix-kates-shulman |website=Open Road Media}}</ref> |
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==Activism== |
==Activism== |
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In the early 1960s Shulman was active in the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE). She named the theater arts chapter, 7-Arts CORE, prior to the group's attending the 1963 [[March on Washington]]. |
In the early 1960s Shulman was active in the [[Congress of Racial Equality]] (CORE). She named the theater arts chapter, 7-Arts CORE, prior to the group's attending the 1963 [[March on Washington]], and with the group she demonstrated against racial discrimination in [[New York City]]. |
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She became [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|opposed to the Vietnam War]], counseling draftees on their rights at the Quaker Meeting House and the [[Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church]], both in Manhattan. In 1967 she was arrested at a sit-in at the Whitehall Street Induction Center in lower Manhattan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=264 Seized Here in Draft Protest|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/01/04/08/specials/ginsberg-arrested.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|access-date=2021-10-15|website=archive.nytimes.com}}</ref> Later, while a visiting professor at the [[University of Colorado Boulder|University of Colorado at Boulder]] in 1985, she was arrested at a large demonstration to keep the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] from recruiting on campus. On the bus that served as paddy wagon for arrested protesters, she and Beat poet [[Allen Ginsberg]] held an impromptu antiwar teach-in.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A peaceful three-day demonstration against CIA recruiters on the...|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1985/04/11/A-peaceful-three-day-demonstration-against-CIA-recruiters-on-the/2285482043600/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=UPI|language=en}}</ref> |
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She became [[Opposition to the Vietnam War|opposed to the Vietnam War]], counseling draftees on their rights at the Quaker Meeting House and the [[Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church]], both in Manhattan. |
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It was in late 1967 that Shulman first became involved in the [[Women's liberation movement|Women's Liberation Movement]] (WLM) in [[New York City]]. She participated in the weekly discussion group [[New York Radical Women]], one of the first women’s liberation groups in New York City. Subsequently, she joined several small feminist [[consciousness-raising]] groups ([[Redstockings]], WITCH, [[New York Radical Feminists]]) and political action groups (CARASA, No More Nice Girls, Feminist Futures, Take Back the Future).<ref name=":2" /> |
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In 1970, the "Wall Street Ogle-In", which involved Shulman and others, took place. The events of September 1968 regarding [[Francine Gottfried]] made an impression on [[Second-wave feminism|second-wave feminists]] in New York City, and in March 1970, they retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In", in which a large group of feminists, including Shulman, [[Karla Jay]], and a number of women who had participated in the [[sit-in]] at ''[[Ladies Home Journal]]'' a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work with catcalls and crude remarks.<ref>Jay, Karla. ''Tales of the Lavender Menace,'' (Basic Books, 1999), pp. 132–133.</ref> |
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Shulman's activism included participation, beginning in 1969 and continuing to the present day, in a number of public speak-outs and conferences on such feminist issues as beauty standards, rape, violence against women, reproductive choice, marriage, and motherhood.<ref>Echols, Alice. ''Daring to Be Bad''. University of Minnesota Press, 1989</ref><ref>Brownmiller, Susan. ''In Our Time''. The Dial Press, 1999</ref> |
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The goal of the speak-out was to initiate a public dialogue on experiences that at the time were widely considered taboo subjects of speech. In the film ''Speak Out: I Had an Abortion'', Shulman and other subjects testify to having had multiple abortions. Shulman said that "not one was the result of carelessness" but, rather, all were due to the failure of the birth control devices she used.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nerve.com/content/trouble-in-numbers|title=Trouble in Numbers: the Stigma of the Second Abortion by Jennifer Baumgardner |access-date=February 26, 2011 }}</ref> |
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Shulman’s activism included the arts. In 1970 she helped organize Feminists on Children’s Literature (later renamed Feminists on Children’s Media), to examine widespread female stereotypes in children’s books. The group presented its findings to the American Library Association’s annual meeting.[http://feminist-reprise.org/docs/RF/FEMINIST_LOOK_CHILDRENS_BOOKS.pdf] In 1971, after their first production, "Rape In," Shulman became a member of the Advisory Board of the [[Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective]] – a NYC-based feminist theater group – and of the [[New York Feminist Art Institute]]. In 1977, she became an associate of the [[Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press]] (WIFP), an American nonprofit publishing organization that works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Associates {{!}} The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press|url=http://www.wifp.org/who-we-are/associates/|access-date=June 21, 2017|website=www.wifp.org|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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In 1992, as a Visiting Professor at the University of Hawaii, she was a founder of a Pacific chapter of the pro-choice political action group No More Nice Girls. The Pacific chapter organized demonstrations, held a speak-out on abortion, and put on street theater in Honolulu.<ref>Love, Barbara, ed. ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975''. University of Illinois Press, 2006</ref> In the 1990s she was active on the board of THEA (The House of Elder Artists), an organization attempting to establish a new kind of retirement community in Manhattan for politically and artistically active seniors.<ref>{{cite news |first=Patricia Leigh |last=Brown |title=GENERATIONS; Raising More Than Consciousness Now |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/24/garden/generations-raising-more-than-consciousness-now.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 24, 2000 |access-date=October 10, 2007 }}</ref> |
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She was one of the planners of the first national demonstration of women's liberation, which catapulted the movement to national attention, the August 1968 [[Miss America protest]] in [[Atlantic City]]. The beauty standards that were being protested inspired, and became a major theme of, her debut novel, ''Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.'' |
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In 1977, Shulman became an associate of the [[Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press]] (WIFP).<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.wifp.org/who-we-are/associates/|title=Associates {{!}} The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press|website=www.wifp.org|language=en-US|access-date=June 21, 2017}}</ref> WIFP is an American nonprofit publishing organization. The organization works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media. |
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Shulman's activism included participation, from 1969 onward, in a number of public speak-outs and conferences on such feminist issues as beauty standards, rape, [[violence against women]], abortion, [[reproductive rights]], [[Feminist views on prostitution|prostitution]], marriage, and motherhood.<ref>Echols, Alice. ''Daring to Be Bad''. University of Minnesota Press, 1989</ref><ref>Brownmiller, Susan. ''In Our Time''. The Dial Press, 1999</ref> The goal of the speak-out was to initiate a public dialogue on experiences that at the time were widely considered private or taboo subjects of speech. In the film ''Speak Out: I Had an Abortion'', Shulman and other subjects testify to having had multiple abortions. Shulman said that "not one was the result of carelessness" but, rather, all were due to the failure of the birth control devices she used.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Had an Abortion|url=https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/i-had-an-abortion|access-date=2021-10-10|website=www.wmm.com|language=en-US}}</ref> |
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In 2012, Shulman joined the Occupy movement and soon became part of the women's caucus, Women Occupy Wall Street, in which she helped put on four Feminist General Assemblies in New York City. |
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In 1975, Shulman joined the faculty of Sagaris, a radical feminist institute held in [[Lyndonville, Vermont|Lyndonville, VT]], which operated as a summer think tank and school for feminist activism (1975-1977).<ref>{{Cite news|date=1975-08-29|title=The Women Activists Found Little Peace At Bucolic School|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1975/08/29/archives/the-women-activists-found-little-peace-at-bucolic-school.html|access-date=2021-10-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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Shulman is featured in the feminist history film ''[[She's Beautiful When She's Angry]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/women|title=The Women|website=She's Beautiful When She's Angry}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/the-film/ |title=The Film — She's Beautiful When She's Angry |publisher=Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com |access-date=April 28, 2017}}</ref> |
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Along with other [[Sex-positive feminism|"sex-positive" feminists]], Shulman joined the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (FACT), a group founded in 1989 to defend free speech from efforts by the anti-pornography wing of the movement to promote government intervention against pornography.<ref>{{Cite web|last=calliechavoustie|date=2011-11-24|title=Anti-Censorship Feminism.|url=https://cchavoustie.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/anti-censorship-feminism/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=Feminist Debate Over Pornography|language=en}}</ref> |
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In 1992, as a visiting professor at the [[University of Hawaiʻi|University of Hawaii]], in Honolulu, she was a founder of a Pacific chapter of the pro-choice political action group No More Nice Girls. The Pacific chapter organized demonstrations, held a speak-out on abortion, and put on street theater in [[Honolulu]].<ref name=":2" /> |
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In the 1990s, she was active on the board of THEA (The House of Elder Artists), an organization attempting to establish a new kind of retirement community in Manhattan for politically and artistically active seniors.<ref>{{cite news |first=Patricia Leigh |last=Brown |title=GENERATIONS; Raising More Than Consciousness Now |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/24/garden/generations-raising-more-than-consciousness-now.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 24, 2000 |access-date=October 10, 2007 }}</ref> That group did not succeed, but Shulman continued her anti-ageist activism through her writing.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|last=Shulman|first=Alix Kates|date=2011-05-09|title=Caring for an Ill Spouse, and for Other Caregivers|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/10/health/10cases.html|access-date=2021-10-09|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> |
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In 2012, Shulman joined the [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement and soon became part of the women's caucus, Women Occupy Wall Street, which put on four Feminist General Assemblies around New York City.<ref name=":4" /> |
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Shulman is featured in three documentaries on second-wave feminist history: ''[[She's Beautiful When She's Angry]]'';''<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Women|url=http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/women|website=She's Beautiful When She's Angry}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Film — She's Beautiful When She's Angry|url=http://www.shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com/the-film/|access-date=April 28, 2017|publisher=Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com}}</ref>'' ''[[Makers: Women Who Make America|Makers: Women Who Make America, Part I]]'';<ref>{{Citation|title=Makers: Women Who Make America (TV Series 2013– ) - IMDb|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2245310/fullcredits|access-date=2021-10-09}}</ref> and ''[[Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation|Feminist Stories from Women's Liberation 1963-1970]]''.<ref>{{Citation|last1=Lee|first1=Jennifer, Eastwood, Valerie|title=Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation|date=2013|url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/feminist-stories-from-womens-liberation/oclc/858532080#details-allauthors|language=English|oclc=858532080|access-date=2021-10-09|last2=Good|first2=Martha|last3=Kling|first3=Betty Jean|last4=Morgan|first4=Robin|last5=Friedan|first5=Betty|last6=Steinem|first6=Gloria|last7=Norton|first7=Eleanor Holmes|last8=Hernandez|first8=Aileen C|last9=Rosen |first9=Ruth}}</ref> |
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==Honors== |
==Honors== |
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In 1979 Alix Shulman was awarded a DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship; in 1982 she was a visiting artist at the [[American Academy in Rome]]; in 1983 she received a [[National Endowment for the Arts]] Fellowship in fiction;<ref>{{Cite news |title=National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Annual Report 1983 |url=https://www.arts.gov/sites/default/files/NEA-Annual-Report-1983.pdf |page=103}}</ref> in 1982–1984 she was elected VP of the [[PEN America]] Center; in 1998 she was a fellow at the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] Center in [[Bellagio, Lombardy|Bellagio, Italy]]; in 2000 she received the Woman 2000 Trailblazer Award from the Mayor of [[Cleveland]]; in 2001 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from [[Case Western Reserve University]];<ref name=":3" /> in 2010 she received the [[American Jewish Press Association]] Simon Rockower Award; in 2012 she became a fellow of the [[New York Institute for the Humanities]];<ref>{{Cite web |title=Alix Kates Shulman |url=https://nyihumanities.org/alix-kates-shulman |website=New York Institute for the Humanities}}</ref> in 2016 she was awarded a Patricia & Jerri Magnione Fellowship from The [[MacDowell Colony]]; and in 2018 she received a Clara Lemlich award for a lifetime of social activism.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Labor Arts|url=http://www.laborarts.org/lemlichawards/2018/|access-date=2021-10-09|website=www.laborarts.org}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> |
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==Personal life== |
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Shulman was married for a short time to a graduate student in the English department at Columbia. In 1959 she married her second husband, Martin Shulman, with whom she had two children. |
Shulman was married for a short time to a graduate student in the English department at [[Columbia University|Columbia]]. In 1959 she married her second husband, Martin Shulman, with whom she had two children. Following their divorce, in 1989 she married Scott York, whom she had first dated when she was in high school, and lived with him until his death in 2014. His 2004 [[traumatic brain injury]] led her to become an advocate for the elderly and disabled.<ref name=":1" /> |
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Shulman's daughter, Polly Shulman, is an author. Her son, [[Theodore Shulman]], a [[pro-choice]] activist, was arrested by the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] in February 2011, on charges of making interstate threats to anti-abortion advocates.<ref name="Wall Street Journal">[https://www.wsj.com/articles/AP3cc568493eb44d6e8ecbc0e0eafbdc5b NY man gets jail for threats to anti-abortion foes], ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'', October 3, 2012.</ref> In October 2012 he was sentenced by federal judge [[Paul A. Crotty|Paul Crotty]] to 41 months in prison. |
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* ''Bosley on the Number Line'' (1970) |
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* ''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'' (2012) |
* ''A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing'' (2012) |
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*''Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writing That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can'' (2021) |
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*Susan Koppleman Cornellon, ed., ''Images of Women in Fiction,'' Bowling Green Univ. Popular Press, 1972 |
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* ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975'', edited by [[Barbara Love]], Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006 |
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*[[Alice Echols]], ''Daring to Be Bad'', Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1989 |
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*[[Barbara Love]], ed., ''Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975'', Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006 |
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* Lisa Hogeland, ''Feminism and Its Fictions'', Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 |
* Lisa Hogeland, ''Feminism and Its Fictions'', Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 |
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* ''The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing'', Oxford |
* ''The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing'', Oxford Univ. Press, 1995 |
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*Ruth Rosen, ''The World Split Open,'' Viking, 2000 |
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* ''Who's Who in America'', 2005 |
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*Kristen Swinth, ''Feminism’s Forgotten Fight'', Harvard Univ. Press, 2018 |
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* ''Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World'' |
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* [http://www.AlixKShulman.com AlixKShulman.com] |
* [http://www.AlixKShulman.com AlixKShulman.com] |
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* [http://www.makers.com/alix-kates-shulman Alix Kates Shulman on MAKERS] |
* [http://www.makers.com/alix-kates-shulman Alix Kates Shulman on MAKERS] |
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* {{IMDb title|id=0815754 |title=Speak Out: I Had an Abortion}} |
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* [http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA064 Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution] from the [http://www.jwa.org Jewish Women's Archive] |
* [http://www.jwa.org/feminism/?id=JWA064 Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution] from the [http://www.jwa.org Jewish Women's Archive] |
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* [http://writersonwriting.blogspot.com/2007/02/alix-kates-shulman.html podcast of interview with Alix Shulman on writing] |
* [http://writersonwriting.blogspot.com/2007/02/alix-kates-shulman.html podcast of interview with Alix Shulman on writing] |
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* [https://jwa.org/media/marriage-agreement-by-alix-kates-shulman "A Marriage Agreement" by Alix Kates Shulman] |
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*[https://www.veteranfeministsofamerica.org/vfa-pioneer-histories-project-alix-kates-shulman/ Veteran Feminists of America’s oral history of Alix Kates Shulman] |
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* [https://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/shulmanalix/ Guide to the Alix Kates Shulman Papers, 1892–2014], Rubenstein Library, Duke University |
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*[https://archives.lib.duke.edu/catalog/shulmanalix Alix Kates Shulman’s papers archived at Duke University] |
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Alix Kates Shulman (born August 17, 1932) is an American writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays, and a prominent early radical activist of second-wave feminism. She is best-known for her bestselling debut adult novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972), hailed by the Oxford Companion to Women's Writing as "the first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation Movement."[1]
Her books have been translated into 12 languages. She has taught writing and women's literature widely in the U.S., including at the University of Hawaii at Manoa (Honolulu), where she held the Citizens Chair, New York University, The New School, the University of Southern Maine, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Yale University. She received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Case Western Reserve University in 2001.[2]
Early life and education
[edit]Shulman was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on August 17, 1932, to Dorothy Davis Kates, a community organizer,[3] and Samuel Simon Kates, a labor arbitrator.
After attending Cleveland Heights public schools, in 1953 she received a BA in history and philosophy from Western Reserve University.[4] She then moved to New York City to study philosophy at the Columbia University Graduate School and later received an MA in Humanities from New York University.[5] She was an early member of the feminist organization Redstockings.[6]
Writing career
[edit]"A Marriage Agreement"
[edit]Shulman first emerged as the author of the controversial essay "A Marriage Agreement",[7] which proposed that women and men split childcare and housework equally, and detailed a way of doing so. Originally published in the small feminist journal Up From Under in August 1970, it was widely reprinted in large-circulation mainstream magazines like Life and Redbook, as well as in the premier issue of Ms. magazine; it subsequently appeared in a number of anthologies, including a Harvard textbook on contract law.[8]
Fiction
[edit]Following several children's books, Shulman's first adult novel, the seriocomic million-copy Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Knopf, 1972), was published. A feminist classic, it is the coming-of-age story, from childhood through motherhood, of middle-class, white, sexually precocious and emotionally confused Sasha Davis, as she navigates the pressures, discrimination, and absurdities facing a pre-feminist mid-20th-century young woman of ambition. Almost continuously in print since 1972, it was reissued in a 25th anniversary edition in 1997 by Penguin, a 35th anniversary "Feminist Classics" edition in 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (FSG), as an e-book in 2012 by Open Road, and in many foreign language editions.[9]
Her next book, Burning Questions (Knopf, 1978), is a historical novel about the rise of the women's liberation movement in late 1960s New York City, an experience Shulman knew firsthand. A fictional autobiography of a white middle-class rebel conscious of class ironies, the novel presents the new movement in a historical tradition of radical and revolutionary women, and “chronicles the important changes in women’s lives and consciousness wrought by contemporary feminism.”[1] A 2017 literary blog described Burning Questions as "the best, most accurate historical novel I have read about the Women's Liberation Movement."[10]
On the Stroll (Knopf, 1981), her third novel, takes on the themes of homelessness, sexual exploitation, and prostitution through the story of a shopping-bag lady and a teenage runaway who is preyed upon by a pimp, over the course of one summer.[11]
Her fourth novel, In Every Woman's Life... (Knopf, 1987), is both a comedy of manners and a novel of ideas. It explores marriage and singleness in light of the social changes brought by second-wave feminism.[12]
Ménage (Other Press, 2012), Shulman's fifth novel, represents a return to fiction after a twenty-five-year departure to memoir. A satire of the wealthy one percent and the literary life, Ménage explores what happens when a real-estate developer and his restless wife invite a literary star to live with them in their mansion. Ménage was described in reviews as “delightfully wicked, verging on the malevolent” (Kirkus Reviews)[13] and "wickedly funny." (Boston Globe)[14]
Memoirs
[edit]In the 1990s Shulman turned from fiction to memoir.[15] Drinking the Rain (FSG, 1995) recounts her experience of going off at age fifty to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine, without electricity, plumbing, road, or phone. As she is thrown back on herself, she learns to love solitude, independence, and the natural world. Drinking the Rain won a 1995 Body Mind Spirit Award of Excellence and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.[16]
A Good Enough Daughter (Random House, Schocken Books, 1999) is a memoir of her life as a daughter to loving parents, to whom she returns in their old age to see them through their final years.[17]
To Love What Is (FSG, 2008) is Shulman's account of caring for her husband following a 2004 accident that left him seriously brain-impaired. In it she describes their half-century-long love affair and the ways they adapted their lives to his increasing disability.[18]
Non-fiction
[edit]In 2021 Library of America published Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writings That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can, an anthology of major writings of feminism’s second wave, 1963-1991, co-edited by Shulman and Honor Moore.[19]
In 2012, the essay collection A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing was published by Open Road.[20]
Her other non-fiction includes two books on anarchist-feminist Emma Goldman: the biography To The Barricades (T.Y.Crowell, 1971), which was a New York Times Outstanding Book of the Year,[21] and Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader (Random House, 1972). Except for her three children's books–Bosley on the Number Line (David McKay, 1970), Finders Keepers (Bradbury Press, 1971), and Awake or Asleep (Addison Wesley, 1971)–all her titles are available as e-books.[22]
Activism
[edit]In the early 1960s Shulman was active in the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She named the theater arts chapter, 7-Arts CORE, prior to the group's attending the 1963 March on Washington, and with the group she demonstrated against racial discrimination in New York City.
She became opposed to the Vietnam War, counseling draftees on their rights at the Quaker Meeting House and the Washington Square Methodist Episcopal Church, both in Manhattan. In 1967 she was arrested at a sit-in at the Whitehall Street Induction Center in lower Manhattan.[23] Later, while a visiting professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1985, she was arrested at a large demonstration to keep the CIA from recruiting on campus. On the bus that served as paddy wagon for arrested protesters, she and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg held an impromptu antiwar teach-in.[24]
It was in late 1967 that Shulman first became involved in the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in New York City. She participated in the weekly discussion group New York Radical Women, one of the first women’s liberation groups in New York City. Subsequently, she joined several small feminist consciousness-raising groups (Redstockings, WITCH, New York Radical Feminists) and political action groups (CARASA, No More Nice Girls, Feminist Futures, Take Back the Future).[2]
In 1970, the "Wall Street Ogle-In", which involved Shulman and others, took place. The events of September 1968 regarding Francine Gottfried made an impression on second-wave feminists in New York City, and in March 1970, they retaliated in a raid on Wall Street which they dubbed the "Ogle-In", in which a large group of feminists, including Shulman, Karla Jay, and a number of women who had participated in the sit-in at Ladies Home Journal a few weeks before, sexually harassed male Wall Streeters on their way to work with catcalls and crude remarks.[25]
Shulman’s activism included the arts. In 1970 she helped organize Feminists on Children’s Literature (later renamed Feminists on Children’s Media), to examine widespread female stereotypes in children’s books. The group presented its findings to the American Library Association’s annual meeting.[1] In 1971, after their first production, "Rape In," Shulman became a member of the Advisory Board of the Westbeth Playwrights Feminist Collective – a NYC-based feminist theater group – and of the New York Feminist Art Institute. In 1977, she became an associate of the Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press (WIFP), an American nonprofit publishing organization that works to increase communication between women and connect the public with forms of women-based media.[26]
She was one of the planners of the first national demonstration of women's liberation, which catapulted the movement to national attention, the August 1968 Miss America protest in Atlantic City. The beauty standards that were being protested inspired, and became a major theme of, her debut novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen.
Shulman's activism included participation, from 1969 onward, in a number of public speak-outs and conferences on such feminist issues as beauty standards, rape, violence against women, abortion, reproductive rights, prostitution, marriage, and motherhood.[27][28] The goal of the speak-out was to initiate a public dialogue on experiences that at the time were widely considered private or taboo subjects of speech. In the film Speak Out: I Had an Abortion, Shulman and other subjects testify to having had multiple abortions. Shulman said that "not one was the result of carelessness" but, rather, all were due to the failure of the birth control devices she used.[29]
In 1975, Shulman joined the faculty of Sagaris, a radical feminist institute held in Lyndonville, VT, which operated as a summer think tank and school for feminist activism (1975-1977).[30]
Along with other "sex-positive" feminists, Shulman joined the Feminist Anti-Censorship Task Force (FACT), a group founded in 1989 to defend free speech from efforts by the anti-pornography wing of the movement to promote government intervention against pornography.[31]
In 1992, as a visiting professor at the University of Hawaii, in Honolulu, she was a founder of a Pacific chapter of the pro-choice political action group No More Nice Girls. The Pacific chapter organized demonstrations, held a speak-out on abortion, and put on street theater in Honolulu.[2]
In the 1990s, she was active on the board of THEA (The House of Elder Artists), an organization attempting to establish a new kind of retirement community in Manhattan for politically and artistically active seniors.[32] That group did not succeed, but Shulman continued her anti-ageist activism through her writing.[33]
In 2012, Shulman joined the Occupy Wall Street movement and soon became part of the women's caucus, Women Occupy Wall Street, which put on four Feminist General Assemblies around New York City.[7]
Shulman is featured in three documentaries on second-wave feminist history: She's Beautiful When She's Angry;[34][35] Makers: Women Who Make America, Part I;[36] and Feminist Stories from Women's Liberation 1963-1970.[37]
Honors
[edit]In 1979 Alix Shulman was awarded a DeWitt Wallace/Reader's Digest Fellowship; in 1982 she was a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome; in 1983 she received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction;[38] in 1982–1984 she was elected VP of the PEN America Center; in 1998 she was a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Center in Bellagio, Italy; in 2000 she received the Woman 2000 Trailblazer Award from the Mayor of Cleveland; in 2001 she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Case Western Reserve University;[4] in 2010 she received the American Jewish Press Association Simon Rockower Award; in 2012 she became a fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities;[39] in 2016 she was awarded a Patricia & Jerri Magnione Fellowship from The MacDowell Colony; and in 2018 she received a Clara Lemlich award for a lifetime of social activism.[40][2]
Personal life
[edit]Shulman was married for a short time to a graduate student in the English department at Columbia. In 1959 she married her second husband, Martin Shulman, with whom she had two children. Following their divorce, in 1989 she married Scott York, whom she had first dated when she was in high school, and lived with him until his death in 2014. His 2004 traumatic brain injury led her to become an advocate for the elderly and disabled.[33]
Shulman's daughter, Polly Shulman, is an author. Her son, Theodore Shulman, a pro-choice activist, was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in February 2011, on charges of making interstate threats to anti-abortion advocates.[41] In October 2012 he was sentenced by federal judge Paul Crotty to 41 months in prison.
Books
[edit]- Bosley on the Number Line (1970)
- To The Barricades (1971)
- Finders Keepers (1971)
- Awake or Asleep (1971)
- Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972)
- Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader (1972)
- Burning Questions (1978)
- On the Stroll (1981)
- In Every Woman's Life... (1987)
- Drinking the Rain (1995)
- A Good Enough Daughter (1999)
- To Love What Is (2008)
- Ménage (2012)
- A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays: Four Decades of Feminist Writing (2012)
- Women’s Liberation!: Feminist Writing That Inspired a Revolution & Still Can (2021)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b Davidson, Cathy; Wagner-Martin, Linda, eds. (1995). "Shulman, Alix Kates". The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-506608-1.
- ^ a b c d Love, Barbara, ed. (2006). Feminists Who Changed America 1963-1975. University of Illinois Press.
- ^ "Finding aid for the Dorothy Davis Kates Papers". ead.ohiolink.edu. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ a b "Did You Know: Alix Kates Shulman". The Daily. March 20, 2018.
- ^ "Alumni Notes" (PDF). Gallatin Today. New York University. Spring 2012.
- ^ Biography, alixkshulman.com, accessed online 11 July 2007.
- ^ a b "Alix Kates Shulman". Jewish Women's Archive.
- ^ "Do We Need Marriage Agreements? | Psychology Today". psychologytoday.com. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "editions of Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen". GoodReads.
- ^ "Alix Kates Shulman". mirabile dictu. July 6, 2017. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "Books of The Times". The New York Times. September 16, 1981.
- ^ "Summer Reading; Yes to Family, No to Monogamy". The New York Times. May 31, 1987.
- ^ MÉNAGE | Kirkus Reviews.
- ^ "'Running With the Kenyans,' 'Ménage,' 'The Omnivorous Mind' - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "Books by Alix Kates Shulman". Publishers Weekly.
- ^ "Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist | Book awards | LibraryThing". www.librarything.com. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "A Good Enough Daughter". Kirkus Reviews. April 2, 1999.
- ^ "Enduring Love". The Observer. October 8, 2008.
- ^ "Nonfiction Book Review: Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that Inspired a Revolution and Still Can by Edited by Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore. Library of America, $39.95 (592p) ISBN 978-1-59853-678-2". PublishersWeekly.com. February 16, 2021. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "A Marriage Agreement and Other Essays". Open Road Media.
- ^ "Outstanding Books of the Year". The New York Times. November 7, 1971. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "Alix Kates Shulman". Open Road Media.
- ^ "264 Seized Here in Draft Protest". archive.nytimes.com. Retrieved October 15, 2021.
- ^ "A peaceful three-day demonstration against CIA recruiters on the..." UPI. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ Jay, Karla. Tales of the Lavender Menace, (Basic Books, 1999), pp. 132–133.
- ^ "Associates | The Women's Institute for Freedom of the Press". www.wifp.org. Retrieved June 21, 2017.
- ^ Echols, Alice. Daring to Be Bad. University of Minnesota Press, 1989
- ^ Brownmiller, Susan. In Our Time. The Dial Press, 1999
- ^ "I Had an Abortion". www.wmm.com. Retrieved October 10, 2021.
- ^ "The Women Activists Found Little Peace At Bucolic School". The New York Times. August 29, 1975. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ calliechavoustie (November 24, 2011). "Anti-Censorship Feminism". Feminist Debate Over Pornography. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ Brown, Patricia Leigh (August 24, 2000). "GENERATIONS; Raising More Than Consciousness Now". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2007.
- ^ a b Shulman, Alix Kates (May 9, 2011). "Caring for an Ill Spouse, and for Other Caregivers". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ "The Women". She's Beautiful When She's Angry.
- ^ "The Film — She's Beautiful When She's Angry". Shesbeautifulwhenshesangry.com. Retrieved April 28, 2017.
- ^ Makers: Women Who Make America (TV Series 2013– ) - IMDb, retrieved October 9, 2021
- ^ Lee, Jennifer, Eastwood, Valerie; Good, Martha; Kling, Betty Jean; Morgan, Robin; Friedan, Betty; Steinem, Gloria; Norton, Eleanor Holmes; Hernandez, Aileen C; Rosen, Ruth (2013), Feminist: Stories from Women's Liberation, OCLC 858532080, retrieved October 9, 2021
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- ^ "Alix Kates Shulman". New York Institute for the Humanities.
- ^ "Labor Arts". www.laborarts.org. Retrieved October 9, 2021.
- ^ NY man gets jail for threats to anti-abortion foes, The Wall Street Journal, October 3, 2012.
Further reading
[edit]- Susan Brownmiller, In Our Time, Dial Press, 1999
- Susan Koppleman Cornellon, ed., Images of Women in Fiction, Bowling Green Univ. Popular Press, 1972
- Alice Echols, Daring to Be Bad, Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1989
- Barbara Love, ed., Feminists Who Changed America 1963–1975, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2006
- Lisa Hogeland, Feminism and Its Fictions, Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1998
- The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing, Oxford Univ. Press, 1995
- Ruth Rosen, The World Split Open, Viking, 2000
- Kristen Swinth, Feminism’s Forgotten Fight, Harvard Univ. Press, 2018
- Who's Who in America, Who's Who in the World
External links
[edit]- AlixKShulman.com
- Alix Kates Shulman on MAKERS
- Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive
- podcast of interview with Alix Shulman on writing
- "A Marriage Agreement" by Alix Kates Shulman
- Veteran Feminists of America’s oral history of Alix Kates Shulman
- Alix Kates Shulman’s papers archived at Duke University
- American feminist writers
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- 1932 births
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