Reasonable Creatures

Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this brilliant, insightful, controversial, and courageous book contains the best of Pollitt's pieces, which have galvanized readers of The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, on subjects that range from abortion and breast implants to date-rape, marriage, the media, and violence.

Katha Pollitt is the author of the essay collections Learning to Drive, Virginity or Death!, Subject to Debate, and Reasonable Creatures, and is a poet, essayist, and columnist for The Nation. She has won many prizes and awards for her work, including the National Book Critics Circle Award for her first collection of poems, Antarctic Traveller, and two National Magazine Awards for essays and criticism. She lives in New York City.

Acknowledgments

xi

Preface to the Vintage Edition

xiii

Introduction

xix

That Survey: Being Wedded Is Not Always Bliss

3

(8)

Children of Choice

11

(5)

Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me

16

(10)

Violence in a Man's World

26

(5)

Why I Hate ``Family Values''

31

(11)

Marooned on Gilligan's Island: Are Women Morally Superior to Men?

42

(21)

Contracts and Apple Pie: The Strange Case of Baby M

63

(18)

On the Merits

81

(4)

Naming and Blaming: Media Goes Wilding in Palm Beach

85

(15)

Checkbook Maternity: When Is a Mother Not a Mother?

100

(11)

Hot Flash

111

(4)

Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?

115

(9)

The Romantic Climacteric

124

(10)

Our Right-to-Lifer: The Mind of an Antiabortionist

134

(11)

Lorena's Army

145

(4)

Implants: Truth and Consequences

149

(3)

The Smurfette Principle

152

(5)

Not Just Bad Sex

157

(12)

Fetal Rights, Women's Wrongs

169

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