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THIS IS THE ARTICLE:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060403/solnit
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In “Three Who Made a Revolution,” (The Nation, April 3, 2006), Rebecca Solnit argues that the social movements of the 60’s had important roots in the women’s movements of the 50’s. She focuses especially on the Women’s Strike for Peace, which helped to bring down the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). She also emphasizes the books of three seminal American women writers; Jane Jacobs, Rachel Carson and Betty Friedan.
In Solnit’s view, the three books between them “collectively assailed almost every institution in American and indeed industrial and Western society.”
She cites Jacobs’s “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”
As “ripping into urban planners’ obsession with segregating home from work, rich from poor, urban dwellings from the street and from commerce, business from residential, people from one another, making cities over in the new image of suburbia–and by implication, the belief in progress and technology and institutional control.”
Rachel Carson, “radically questioned the faith in big science and its disastrous new solutions to age-old problems, and maybe even the old Cartesian worldview of isolated fragments, which she replaced with a precocious vision of ecosystems in which contaminants like DDT and fallout kept traveling from their origins to touch and taint everything.”
And in “The Feminie Mystique,” Friedan “took on the women’s half of the American dream, gender, patriarchy and the middle-class suburban family, bringing the assault full circle.”
Through their critique, Solnit argues, the three opened “vast new possibilities for social transformation,” which came to fruition in the broader movements of the sixties, including the civil rights, environmental and anti-war movements, as well as the rejuvenated and supercharged women’s movement, which she believes gave too little credit to its foremothers.
“The later ’60s only reaped what the more daring had sown at the beginning of the decade,” Solnit says. “And among the most visionary sowers were those women whose achievements as books and bans and changed roles are still here.”
Solnit expresses regret at the unfulfilled promise of these movements, and encourages readers to return to these three essential works for the insight and inspiration they contain.
She acknowledges that some scoff at the notion of books having much impact on the world. But, she says, “These three make it clear that books can change the world.”
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