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Named a "leader of the feminist movement" in Time and Life magazines, Dunbar-Ortiz (history, California State Univ., Hayward; Red Dirt; Roots of Resistance) takes the reader on a firsthand tour through the radical movements and events of the 1960s and early 1970s: South African apartheid, the Black Panthers, the Weather underground, and the antiwar and women's liberation movements. Dunbar-Ortiz cofounded an early feminist group, Cell 16, in Boston that published an influential journal, spoke extensively about women's liberation, worked in Cuba with people who had fought with Castro and Che Guevara, went underground, and was pursued by the FBI. Dunbar is frank about both her struggles and her triumphs. The reader will not find here an objective account of 1960s and 1970s U.S. history but an illuminating look at the inside of political organizing within the radical feminist and Socialist movements during that tumultuous and violent period. Although this is a memoir, Dunbar-Ortiz addresses so many historical events that readers unfamiliar with the period would have benefited from a bibliography. Recommended for academic libraries. Debra Moore, Cerritos Coll., Norwalk, CA Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Dunbar-Ortiz, currently a history professor, looks back on her earlier life at the forefront of the feminist movement and as publisher of the feminist journal No More Fun and Games. She recalls her life as a revolutionary in a period of social and political tumult, and the creation of the women's rights movement in the midst of the antiwar and civil rights struggles. Dunbar-Ortiz was a timid housewife when she left Oklahoma for California with her husband. As she developed and grew, she became enamored of feminist politics and eventually left her husband and young daughter for a peripatetic life of traveling, writing, teaching, and speaking out against oppression across the U.S and in Cuba and South Africa. She recalls her personal struggle to reconcile within herself the various frictions of the feminist, black-power, antiwar, and leftist groups. This masterful insider look at radical activism in the 1960s and 1970s is a follow-up to her memoir Red Dirt: Growing Up Okie (1997) and will especially appeal to devotees of the '60s. Vanessa BushCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Raw and true, April 17, 2005
Outlaw Woman is one of literally hundreds of books that describe the "movement" in its varied forms during the 60's and 70's, but it shines among all of them. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's honesty, courage, and commitment to self-definition and truth are a shining example of what the movement could have been and could still be.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
A strongly charged saga of one woman's daily struggle, September 6, 2002
Outlaw Woman: A Memoir Of The War Years, 1960-1975 by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is the personal and autobiographical testimony of a dedicated anti-war organizer, feminist, and New Left activist who rose from a poverty-stricken childhood to dedicate herself to making a difference. Outlaw Woman is very highly recommended reading as a forcefully told, openly honest, and strongly charged saga of one woman's daily struggle to get her message out to and change society itself.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
radical Okie!, December 1, 2003
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is from Oklahoma--a story told beautifully in her earlier volume, RED DIRT: GROWING UP OKIE. But her views, both in the 1960s and now, don't fit the Okie image. Yet, paradoxically, she would be the first to acknowledge that her Oklahoma background--poor, part Native American, a socialist grandfather--helped in some ways to shape her radicalism. (To be accurate, her radicalism probably resulted in part from reacting AGAINST her Oklahoma background.) Dunbar-Ortiz has a remarkable ability to place the story of her life in context with "historical events" going on at the time--in this volume, the women's movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the "radical underground," etc. I recommended this book to my daughter, herself something of an activist (anti-nuclear power). She read it, loved it, and said one thing that was obvious was that Dunbar-Ortiz had kept a journal, thus enabling her to tell her story in rich detail. She also has a remarkable ability to grab you and shake you and make you think, to make you reconsider stuff you thought you knew. I've been an Okie for 40 years, wear the label proudly, was an activist to some extent in all four major movements of the 60s (civil rights, anti-Vietnam War, environmental, women's). But I was by no means as radical, AM by no means as radical, as Dunbar-Ortiz. Which is part of why this was such a good book for me to read. You should read it too, whatever your political orientation!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Outlaw Woman, September 5, 2002
OUTLAW WOMAN is a vivid and compelling account of the author's journey through the upheaval, hope and ultimate implosion of the 1960s. With a keen eye for detail and a crisp prose style, Dunbar-Ortiz evokes the heady combination of idealism and trauma that defined that era and transformed her from an apolitical, married college student into a notorious feminist leader and later, an underground revolutionary. This is fascinating history, and especially important for young people who are trying to make sense of the socio-political moment in America today. OUTLAW WOMAN is an honest and courageous attempt to examine and reclaim some of the history of an era that still divides and perplexes us thirty years later. A wonderful and important read.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
a fierce and honest narrative, August 16, 2002
Reviewer: A reader From Chris Crass, anti-racist and anarchist activist/organizer: Dunbar-Ortiz takes us into the heart of the women's liberation movement, grassroots anti-war organizing and solidarity work with third world liberation struggles around the world and in the U.S. Outlaw Woman is a fierce and honest narrative about organizing, resistance, and a passion to remake the world.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
I stand in awe of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz., August 16, 2002
Reviewer: A reader From Madonna Gilbert Thunder Hawk, Lakota activist from the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation, and American Indian Movement (AIM) leader at Alcatraz and Wounded Knee: I stand in awe of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. She is a survivor, capital "S". She was there in the middle of it all. Now I understand what was going on with the movement outside of Indian country during those amazing years. The movement press was a lifeline to us in the American Indian Movement so we knew what was going on, but from a distance. Now Outlaw Women is showing it to us through the eyes of someone who lived it.
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