"A directory of resource organizations": pages 340-392.
Includes bibliographical references.
Present danger / Judith McDaniel ; Survival is an act of resistance / Michaela Uccella and Melanie ; Resistance of incestuous assault / Kris Cottom ; Lesbian consciousness and male violence / Denslow Tregarthen Brown ; Naming myself / Arelene Sen ; Untitled / Mariana Romo-Carmona ; Claiming my rights / Rita Frenzel ; Notes toward survival as resistance (a daughter untangles of the past) / Kate Moos ; Butch on the streets / Donna Allegra ; Why men should not be allowed to live with wimmin (Hah!) / Julia Penelope ; Breast cancer: power vs. prosthesis / Audre Lorde - Need: a choral of black women's voices / Audre Lorde ; Twelve black women: why did they die? / Combahee River Collective. Introduction by Barbara Smith ; Battered and raped: the physical/sexual abuse of women / Janet Howard ; Attack from the right / Pamela Johnston ; The future of the battered women's movement / Susan Schechter ; Battered women's refuges: feminist cooperative vs. social service institutions / Lois Ahrens ; Drifting from the mainstream: a chronicle of early anti-rape organizing / Nikki Craft ; To respectability and back: a ten year view of the anti-rape movement / Anne Pride ; Starting a safe homes network for battered women / Mary Haviland ; The park slope safe home project services ; Key points for other communities: the safe homes model ; Doing community outreach to third world women / Renae Scott - Heat wave / Melanie Kaye ; Of similar thread / Wendy Stevens ; Fighting back with deadly force: women who kill in self-defense / Susan Madden ; The night is a monster / Wendy Stevens ; Letters from prison / Juanita Thomas ; Women and violence / Melanie Kaye ; Rita Silk-Nauni ; Interview with Barbara Hart - A story about women who won't be battered and raped / Kelly Hilton ; Karate and the feminist resistance movement / Nadia Telsey ; Some facts on self-defense / Nadia Telsey ; Do it yourself-self-defense / Pat James - Pièce de resistance / Mariana Romo-Carmona ; feminist law-challenging actions / Pam McAllister ; Setting a "bad" example / Marcia Womongold ; We will not be silent victims / Shell Wildwomoon ; Pitocin: a synthetic form of oxytocin / Michelle Harrison M.D. ; Nadine Pagan explains her outlaw career to her sister, Jane Morningstar, Judith Katz (Quickbeam) ; Tips for enhancing an offensive billboard / Anonymous ; Charges dropped in the billboard case / Linda Gryczan, Olga Nada, Rose Mesec ; From pornography: a license to kill / Marcia Womongold ; Kitty Genovese women's project ; The incredible case of the stack o'prints mutilations / Nikki Craft ; In defense of disobedience / Nikki Craft ; Stack o'wheats: an exercise in issues / D.A. Clarke ; In celebration of First Amendment Rights: an open letter to Larry Flynt, editor of Hustler Magaine / The Preying Mantis Women's Brigade ; Larry Flynt gets his: an experiment in turning the tables / The Preying Mantis Women's Brigade ; The Preying Mantis Women's Brigade: actions against Hustler ; Feminist artists: developing a media strategy for the movement / Leslie Labowitz and Suzanne Lacy ; Art and politics: post cards to go / Mary-Linn Hughes and Barbara Margolies ; Three weeks in May / Suzanne Lacy ; In morning and in rage. . . / Susanne Lacy and Leslie Labowitz ; Unity state / Women's Pentagon Action ; Women's Pentagon Action / Tacie Dejanikus and Stella Dawson ; Women's Pentagon Action Trial results - No more willing victims (how fascism in fought) / Sary Guinier ; Third world lesbians: organizing at the national level to combat oppression / Hilda Hidalgo ; Action proposal for lesbian revolution movement from a lesbian separatis's postion / Thrace ; Warriors of the luniform shield: lesbians and direct action / Sidney Spinster ; Working in the heart of the monster: an interview with Karen Clark ; Women's capacity for resistance / Michaele Uccella and Melanie Kaye ; The great goddess fights back: Resistance to patriarchy in ancient mythologies / Susan Ribner and Christine Wade ; Ritual: we fight back / Melanie Kaye - A directory of resource organizations ; Contributors' notes.
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"Fight Back! Feminist Resistance to Maile Vilence is a resource for all of us who struggle with violence in our lives. In it are stories of personal survival, articles on the shelter and rape crisis movements, strategies for defending women who kill their attackers, survival tactics, documentation of law-challenging actions women have taken against pornography, rape, battering and sexual harassment across the country. Fight Back! includes a comprehensive directory of rape crisis cents, shelters for battered women, support services for incest victims, legal resources, karate and self-defense schools and instructors, newsletters, political and resource organizations."--Publisher's description.
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