Jo Freeman
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Jo Freeman (a.k.a. Joreen) (born 1945) is an American feminist and scholar noted for her feminist activism in the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of The Tyranny of Structurelessness, a pamphlet critical of the "structureless" organizing models employed by the women's movement during that time (see Democratic structuring).
Freeman has won various awards for her scholarly involvement in politics and feminism, including the American Political Science Association prize for the Best Scholarly Work on Women in Politics (1975).
In 1970, her 1969 "BITCH Manifesto" appeared in the book Notes from the Second Year by Shulamith Firestone and Anne Koedt. It now appears in numerous women's studies textbooks as an example of early language reclamation applied to the word bitch and the celebration of non-traditional gender roles.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist, 1961-1965 (2004), ISBN 0-253-34283-X
- A Room at a Time: How Women Entered Party Politics (2000), ISBN 0-8476-9804-1
- Waves of Protest: Social Movements Since the Sixties (editor with Victoria Johnson, 1999), ISBN 0-8476-8747-3
- Women: A Feminist Perspective (editor, 5th ed. 1995), ISBN 1-55934-111-4
- Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies (editor, 1983), ISBN 0-582-28091-5
- The Politics of Women's Liberation: A Case Study of an Emerging Social Movement and Its Relation to the Policy Process (1975), ISBN 0-679-30284-0
- "The Tyranny of Structurelessness"
