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2 unusual facts about Katha Pollitt


Marcus Buckingham

Some prominent feminists including Katha Pollitt and Barbara Ehrenreich criticized the book and a series of articles written by Buckingham in Huffington Post.

Women Strike for Peace

In particular, in protesting atmospheric nuclear testing, they emphasized that Strontium-90 from nuclear fallout was being found in mother's milk and commercially sold cow's milk, presenting their opposition to testing as a motherhood issue,4 what Katha Pollitt has called "a maternity-based logic for organizing against nuclear testing."6 As middle-class mothers, they were less vulnerable to the redbaiting that had held in check much radical activity in the United States since the McCarthy Era.4



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