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Katha Pollitt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Much of Pollitt's writing is in defense of contemporary feminism and other forms of "identity politics," against perceived misimpressions by critics from all over the political spectrum; other frequent topics include abortion, the media, U.S. foreign policy, the politics of poverty (especially welfare reform), and human rights movements the world over. Pollitt was once married to Randy Cohen, author of The New York Times Magazine column "The Ethicist," with whom she has a daughter. Pollitt was criticized by Bernard Goldberg, who named her number 74 in his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America, because of her 2001 essay "Put Out No Flags". en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Katha_Pollitt   (348 words)

Off Our Backs: Katha Pollitt: Brilliant theories and economic realities Katha Pollitt began her talk by noting that ten years ago it would have been hard to foresee such events such as the rise of the christian right, the downfall of communism worldwide, the globalization of the economy, and the breakup of the Soviet Union. Pollitt said that several years ago, it seemed obvious to her that equality feminism better fit the realities of women's lives as they began to enter the work force and move beyond marriage and homemaking and would, therefore, render cultural feminism irrelevant. Pollitt concluded that most women combine the mutually exclusive positions of equality and cultural feminism into their own world views, sometimes believing that women and men are equal, and sometimes believing that women are superior to men. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3693/is_199705/ai_n8773754   (1389 words)

Katha's Silence Katha, these were the years when a column by you in The Nation could have been enormously influential. And now, Katha, in early October, l999, you've finally caught up with the issue in your Nation column, "'Finality' or Justice", about the Amirault case in Boston, where Violet and her two children, Cheryl and Gerald, drew twenty and thirty year sentences back in l984 on the usual mad accusations. Although Pollitt says in her recent column that there have been no cases 'in a decade,' cases DID continue to surface as late as the early 1990s. www.counterpunch.org /pollitt.html   (1906 words)

Union College Pollitt's "Subject to Debate" column appears every other week in The Nation and has been called by the Washington Post "the best place to go for original thinking on the left." The column is also frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country. Pollitt apart from other feminist writers is her concern for social justice.... Pollitt is the winner of several writing awards, and her essays and poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Harper's, and The New York Times, among others. www.union.edu /N/DS/s.php?s=1807   (247 words)

Capturing Katha: Discovering the Famous Feminist Writer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt was born and raised in New York City. Although Katha Pollit has written a book of poetry that received critical acclaim, it is her essays that have brought her fame. Pollitt, the reoccurring though in my head was “ is it really that bad?”. www.etsu.edu /writing/nonfiction_f04/pollitt.htm   (1383 words)

The Daily Northwestern {04.18.00}   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt, a poet and columnist for The Nation, was chosen for her "sharp edge" in the way she deals with issues of race, class and gender, said Fran Paden, program director of women's studies. Pollitt said the pressure that society places on women continues with the added emergence of media images, which inundate women with expectations of beauty everyday. Pollitt said more women are earning college degrees and filling political office, while at the same time abandoning their girdles and refusing to do the dishes. www.dailynorthwestern.com /daily/issues/2000/04/18/campus/feminism.shtml   (406 words)

Kumbaya Watch on National Review Online For now, though, she's content to sit on the sidelines, taking potshots at just about everyone — and her latest column is an absolute gem, five sneering paragraphs without a single original thought to be found. Pollitt, it's the perpetually snarky attitude that counts, not the actual content of her commentary. And no sooner has she blindsided the reader with one broadside then she is on to another, blasting American liberals for "defending the moral legitimacy of bombing Afghanistan and damning Noam Chomsky to hell" while ignoring "the real-world consequences of this war." These include, apparently, "five and a half million Afghans starving.... www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment110601.shtml   (349 words)

Independent Women's Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Katha Pollitt is a well-known poet (and a good one, I have to admit), but she’s even better known as a professional Marxist and radical feminist (check out her Yuletide 2003 column for The Nation for a sample of her views). Katha is most famous for her boast that she refused to allow her daughter to display an American flag in the window of their Manhattan apartment after Sept. 11, 2001. Katha’s new essay is brutally honest in every way but one: the illustration, which shows the lovely back of a glamorous babe who couldn’t be older than 30 hunched over her computer. www.iwf.org /inkwell?archiveID=122   (6252 words)

Pollitt, Katha: Why I Hate Family Values   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt maintains that the troubles connected with the breakdown of the "family" are not a problem of values but rather a problem of money. That is, when jobs don't exist and the poor are left to their own devices, people are unable to display a "work ethic" like the rest of us blessed with jobs; people don't feel good about themselves; people don't marry or stay married. Pollitt maintains that "instead of moaning about 'family values' we should be thinking about how to provide the poor with decent jobs and social services, and about how to insure economic justice for working women. endeavor.med.nyu.edu /lit-med/lit-med-db/webdocs/webdescrips/pollitt750-des-.html   (332 words)

Katha Pollitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt's book of poems, Antarctic Traveler, won the National Book Critics Award, and her writing appears regularly in The Nation, The New Yorker, and The New Republic. Whether in her pieces for those magazines or as a commentator for National Public Radio, the voice of Katha Pollitt is unmistakable. Pollitt received her B.A. from Harvard University and M.F.A. from Columbia University. www.swarthmore.edu /news/releases/03/pollitt.html   (159 words)

Katha Pollitt Columnist Katha Pollitt is well known for her sharp and provocative analyses of popular culture and politics. Pollitt counts Susan Sontag, Gloria Steinem and Naomi Wolf among her many vocal fans and Camille Paglia--who wrote recently that she hopes Pollitt "burns in hell" for her analysis of Katie Roiphe's The Morning After--among her critics. A superb stylist, Pollitt can always be relied on for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. www.thenation.com /directory/bios/katha_pollitt   (1312 words)

U of M News Service Katha Pollitt's writing has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, Ms. Pollitt, born in New York City and raised in Brooklyn, attended Harvard and the Columbia School of the Arts. She has taught at Princeton, Barnard College, the NYU graduate writing program, the graduate program in Liberal Studies at the New School, and the 92nd Street Y. Pollitt is available for interview by phone or e-mail. www.umich.edu /news?Releases/2005/Mar05/r032205   (238 words)

On The Media- Ladies-in-Waiting BROOKE GLADSTONE: Katha Pollitt is a columnist for The Nation, who wrote recently about the issue of female columnists. KATHA POLLITT: What Maureen Dowd is basically saying is that there are many more men who want to do this kind of work than women who want to do this kind of work. BROOKE GLADSTONE: Katha Pollitt is a writer for The Nation, where women columnists outnumber men 3 to 2. www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_040105_ladies.html   (888 words)

Amazon.com: Subject to Debate : Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Modern Library Paperbacks): Books: ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt speaks her mind and doesn't hesitate to let a woman or two have it if their political views or policies are out of line. Pollitt is a fine thinker who, in this collection more so than in her previous collection, shows that she is indeed capable of casting criticism any which way she sees fit, to the left or to the right. Pollitt is nondogmatic, witty, profound, eye-opening, and unafraid to take stands controversial in her own liberal or radical camp. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679783431?v=glance   (1961 words)

Emperor Has No Clothes Award Katha Pollitt, poet, author and columnist of the "Subject to Debate" biweekly column in The Nation, was the second convention recipient of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's "Emperor Has No Clothes Award." In 1995, Katha Pollitt was designated the Foundation's "Freethought Heroine" for her willingness to forthrightly volunteer her atheism, and defend rationalism and the separation of church and state in her column, in interviews and on national TV programs. Katha even wrote up the 1995 convention, in a column called "No God, No Master," one of the collected essays in her book Subject to Debate (2001). www.ffrf.org /awards/emperor/2001_pollit.php   (182 words)

Kumbaya Watch on Katha Pollitt on National Review Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt begins with a heartwarming anecdote: "My daughter," she writes, "who goes to Stuyvesant High School only blocks from the World Trade Center, thinks we should fly an American flag out our window. Pollitt bemoans the fact that "there are no symbolic representations right now for the things the world really needs — equality and justice and humanity and solidarity and intelligence. In Pollitt's worldview, it is always 1969, Richard Nixon is always president, and the bombs are always falling on innocent Cambodia. www.nationalreview.com /nr_comment/nr_comment092401b.shtml   (299 words)

Barnes & Noble.com - Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture - Katha ... Pollitt professes to find the cover of this collection of her Nation columns "pretty"; her readers might find it misleading, since the eye on the cover is in sweet soft-focus, while Pollitt's own eye is steely, uncompromising and sharp. Pollitt's lively commentaries on the contemporary American scene and the women's movement and her unwavering promotion of social justice will make a refreshing addition to most public libraries and academic collections in journalism and women's studies. Pollitt (Reasonable Creatures, 1994) is known as a feminist, a liberal, and a fighter for social justice—all causes from the same shopping cart, one might think. search.barnesandnoble.com /BookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=692QGvLARs&isbn=0679783431&itm=7   (1117 words)

kathapollitt.com: Katha Pollitt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) With Katha Pollitt and William Saletan—today, Thursday, and Friday in Slate's email debate series. She has also been honored with the National Magazine Award for her essays and criticism, and is generally regarded as one of the nation's leading intellectuals. Katha Pollitt is the author of a book of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two collections of essays: Reasonable Creatures and Subject to Debate. kathapollitt.blogspot.com   (753 words)

Pejmanesque: HER WISH IS OUR COMMAND Of course, I'm not entirely certain that it isn't too early to celebrate, but apparently Katha Pollitt is a party gal, and I just didn't want her to have to wait any longer for the next big right-wing shindig. Pollitt is comparing apples and oranges, and hoping that people will buy into the "well, they're both fruit" argument she is peddling. But then, Pollitt believes that the American flag "stands for jingoism and vengeance and war." So perhaps she views the prospect of this nation's destruction as something to look forward to. www.pejmanesque.com /archives/004761.html   (1632 words)

Katha Pollitt Tells It Like It Is, Katha Pollitt Among the "atheists in foxholes" in New York City is Katha Pollitt, poet, author and columnist of the "Subject to Debate" biweekly column in The Nation. Katha Pollitt is the second convention recipient of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's "Emperor Has No Clothes Award," instigated by a benefactor to recognize public figures who openly speak of their freethought views. Katha even wrote up the 1995 convention, in a column called "No God, No Master," one of the collected essays in her new book Subject to Debate (2001). www.ffrf.org /fttoday/2001/oct01/pollitt.html   (3199 words)

The Washington Monthly Pollitt asks what it is supposed to prove that men send in most unsolicited manuscripts. Pollitt does not include her own name in that roster of experienced and highly-qualified woman editorialists. Katha Pollitt has written and published in many, many, many places other than The Nation, including Salon, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Atlantic, New Republic, Harper's, and a whole lot more. www.washingtonmonthly.com /archives/individual/2005_03/005908.php   (11202 words)

Margins Discussion Forum - Why I Have Never Liked Katha Pollitt Even When She...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Regarding Katha Pollitt’s graceless non-eulogy (‘eulogy’ is from the Greek for ‘praise’) for Andrea Dworkin. So what Pollitt writes doesn't surprise me. Andrea Dworkin was an ongoing confrontation to her failure to speak real truth to male supremacist power. Pollitt's position comes down to: she doesn't believe women are harmed in and through porn. www.gentlespirit.com /margins/Feminism1/417.html   (1534 words)

Electrolite: Katha Pollitt Pollitt was fairly vehemently against the Afghanistan war ("Put out no flags", 9/20/02), so it's more than a little disingenuous of her to use those who didn't as a shield to get after Hitchens, who was right on the money on that issue. I quoted Pollitt on Hitchens because I found it interesting that she seemed to, as I said, land a few blows. Pollitt's publishing this stuff in _The Nation_; no doubt she thinks it will find an audience that agrees with her. nielsenhayden.com /electrolite/archives/001537.html   (4366 words)

20 Required Readings: Katha Pollitt [Katha Pollitt and John Judis have written extensively about the American political climate during Mother Jones' first two decades, so we asked them to identify the 10 most important political books since 1976. They did, with a few qualifiers: "My list is about as arbitrary and personal as Top 10 lists usually are," Pollitt says, while Judis admits, "These are the 10 books written in the last two decades that have most influenced how I understand the world. Katha Pollitt is a columnist for The Nation magazine and author of Reasonable Creatures: Feminism & Society in American Culture at the End of the Twentieth Century (New York: Vintage, 1994). www.motherjones.com /news/outfront/1996/07/pollitt.html   (670 words)

Democratic Underground Forums - Katha Pollitt (The Nation) on Kucinich's anti-choice record   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) Pollitt is willing to take Dennis at his word regarding his change of heart on choice. Pollitt only reinforces my assertion that we need liberals whose hearts bleed a little less, and whose feet kick tail a little more. BTW, (a) Katha Pollitt is one of the last progressive writers who will ever be duped by anyone on any issue within the politcal spectrum. www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID66/1079.html   (2663 words)

hss_funk_strats_2|Strategies for Interpreting Meaning: Cau|Authors|Katha Pollitt Multiple Choice Pollitt is skeptical of recent studies that claim what? Pollitt uses an exhausted mother picking up her son's clothes as an example of what? Pollitt says that all children receive messages each day about their gender roles but that it's up to parents to do what? wps.prenhall.com /hss_funk_strats_2/0,5884,187525-,00.utf8.html   (166 words)

Bush v. Choice: Katha Pollitt: “Feminists for (Fetal) Life” Since the Roberts nomination, and the news that Jane Roberts used to be the Executive Director of Feminists for Life, pro-choicers have been wondering if there’s such thing as an anti-choice feminist. Katha Pollitt’s latest column takes the controversy on after talking with Feminists for Life president Serrin Foster: Pollitt goes on to call the group “fetalists,” not feminists. www.bushvchoice.com /archives/2005/08/katha_pollitt_a.html   (1432 words)

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