Writing Feminism: From Redstockings to Occupy

What is the role of the feminist writer today? Are feminist writers still as influential as they used to be? First published in 1969 in the underground feminist journal Up From Under, Alix Kates Shulman’s famous essay “A Marriage Agreement,” proposing that partners share childcare and housework equally, was subsequently reprinted as a cover story in Life Magazine as well as in Ms, New York Magazine, Redbook, and the standard Harvard textbook on contract law. Schulman’s first novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (1972) was a bestseller and had a similar impact. Join writer and activist Jennifer Baumgarden as she speaks with Alix Kates Shulman about her new novel, Ménage, and a lifetime of feminism, activism, and writing fiction and memoir.