Pollitt, Katha

Overview

Works:	32 works in 68 publications in 1 language and 5,196 library holdings
Roles:	Author of introduction
Classifications:	ps3566.o533, 814.54

Publication Timeline

1970 |

|2010

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Publications about Katha Pollitt

Publications by Katha Pollitt

Most widely held works about Katha Pollitt

Contemporary literary criticism. Volume 122 ( Book )
Katha Pollitt : (1949-) Biographies, Criticism, Journal articles, Work overviews ( )
What's next for feminism by Katha Pollitt ( Recording )
Focus on Women. [Show nos. 361-399 ( Visual )
Pollitt, Katha ( Book )

Most widely held works by Katha Pollitt

Reasonable creatures : essays on women and feminism by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
11 editions published between 1994 and 1995 in English and held by 1,007 libraries worldwide
She writes about sex, children's books, the media, breast implants, the mind of an antiabortionist. She invokes Moby Dick and Gilligan's Island, Lorna Bobbitt and Lysistrata ("the original woman's strike-for-peace-nik"). For more than a decade, in her wonderfully provocative, wittily astute, graceful and gutsy pieces in The Nation, The New Yorker and The New York Times, she has taken the strongest positions on the thorniest moral issues and the most controversial events, from date rape to surrogate motherhood, to violence against women, to the Anita Hill hearings, to fetal rights and mothers' "wrongs." She asks "Who's Afraid of Hillary Clinton?," considers the Smurfette Principle and explains why she hates "Family Values." She takes aim at nineteen targets in all. Her pieces delight by their language - the mastery that won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her first book of poems - and her refusal, ever, to be ponderous.

Learning to drive : and other life stories by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
8 editions published between 2007 and 2008 in English and held by 793 libraries worldwide
With deep feeling and sharp insight, Pollitt writes about the death of her father; the sad but noble final days of a leftist study group of which she was a member; and the betrayal and heartbreak inflicted by a man who seriously deceived her. (Her infinitely patient, gentle driving instructor points out her weakness--"Observation, Katha, observation!") She also offers a candid view of her preoccupation with her ex-lover's haunting presence on the Internet, and her search there for a secret link that might provide a revelation about him that will Explain Everything.--From publisher's description.

Subject to debate : sense and dissents on women, politics, and culture by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 778 libraries worldwide
Eighty-eight essays on topics ranging from abortion and affirmative action to school vouchers and the death penalty.

Virginity or death! : and other social and political issues of our time by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
4 editions published between 2006 and 2008 in English and held by 559 libraries worldwide
A collection of articles originally published in the author's column, Subject to debate, in the Nation.

Antarctic traveller : poems by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
7 editions published between 1982 and 1988 in English and held by 447 libraries worldwide

The mind-body problem : poems by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
3 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 383 libraries worldwide

Another sleep : nineteen songs for medium voice and piano by Ned Rorem ( )
4 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 131 libraries worldwide

New Growth new songs and spoken poems ( Recording )
2 editions published between 2002 and 2007 in English and held by 62 libraries worldwide

The best American essays of the century. Volume 1 ( Recording )
1 edition published in 2001 in English and held by 32 libraries worldwide

Subject to debate by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
2 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide

XXI Century. Part 3, And nothing but the truth ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Presents a critical examination of the response of the mass media complex to the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks which too often worked as a propaganda machine of the Bush administration. A meaningful list of concrete examples is enumerated by journalists and newspeople including Greg Palast of the BBC and The Guardian, Katha Pollitt of the Nation, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Danny Schecter of Media Channel.org and many others who enumerate examples of how the mainstream media abdicated its public role as watchdog of the power.

XXI Century. Part 2, And the pursuit of happiness ( Visual )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 10 libraries worldwide
Examines what has happened in America after September 11th, 2001, looking at its impact on American political issues such as freedom, democracy, the First Amendment, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights ... and the Patriot Act. Civil rights activists and others question the "official" version and the status quo. Also looks at rallys and demonstrations against the war in Afghanistan and anti-terrorism policies of the Bush administration and investigates the effectiveness of the peace movement.

Mary Olivier : a life by May Sinclair ( Book )
1 edition published in 2002 in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide

Poetry reading by Nicholas Christopher ( Recording )
2 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
Nicholas Christopher, Michael McFee, and Katha Pollitt read selections from their poetry.

Vocal Recital Holiman, Shauna - TEASDALE, S ( )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide

Pleasures and terrors of domestic comfort by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
1 edition published in 1991 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Milkweed by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
1 edition published in 1985 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

What is nonfiction by Katha Pollitt ( Recording )
1 edition published in 1995 in English and held by 1 library worldwide

Whatever happened to the women's movement ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2000 in English and held by 1 library worldwide
Panelists discuss the current state and history of the women's movement. Followed by audience questions.

Ovid and the boys : an imaginary life by David Malouf ; Narrow rooms by James Purdy by Katha Pollitt ( Book )
1 edition published in 1978 in English and held by 1 library worldwide