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Katha Pollitt

Born

in New York City, The United States

October 14, 1949

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Poetry, Nonfiction

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Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her Subject to Debate column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post called 鈥渢he best place to go for original thinking on the left,鈥� appears every other week in the Nation; it is frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country. In 2003, Subject to Debate won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Katha is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute.

Many of Katha鈥檚 contributions to the Nation are compiled in three books: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Knopf); Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Modern Library); and Virginity or Death Katha Pollitt is well known for her wit and her keen sense of both the ridiculous and the sublime. Her Subject to Debate column, which debuted in 1995 and which the Washington Post called 鈥渢he best place to go for original thinking on the left,鈥� appears every other week in the Nation; it is frequently reprinted in newspapers across the country. In 2003, Subject to Debate won the National Magazine Award for Columns and Commentary. Katha is also a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow at the Nation Institute.

Many of Katha鈥檚 contributions to the Nation are compiled in three books: Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism (Knopf); Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture (Modern Library); and Virginity or Death! And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time (Random House). In 2007, Random House published her collection of personal essays, Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories.

Katha has also written essays and book reviews for the New Yorker, the Atlantic, the New Republic, Harper鈥檚, Ms., Glamour, Mother Jones, the New York Times, and the London Review of Books. She has appeared on NPR鈥檚 Fresh Air and All Things Considered, Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group, CNN, Dateline NBC, and the BBC. Her work has been republished in many anthologies and is taught in many university classes.

Katha has received a National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Guggenheim Fellowship for her poetry. Her 1982 book Antarctic Traveller won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poems have been published in many magazines and are reprinted in many anthologies, most recently The Oxford Book of American Poetry (2006). Her second collection, The Mind-Body Problem, was published by Random House in 2009.

Born in New York City, Katha was educated at Harvard and the Columbia University School of the Arts. She has lectured at dozens of colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brooklyn College, UCLA, the University of Mississippi, and Cornell. She has taught poetry at Princeton, Barnard, and the 92nd Street Y, and women鈥檚 studies at the New School University. ...more

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A POWERFUL ARGUMENT FOR ABORTION AS A MORAL RIGHT AND SOCIAL GOOD BY A NOTED FEMINIST AND LONGTIME COLUMNIST FOR THE NATION Forty years after the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling, 鈥渁bortion鈥� is still a word that is said with outright hostility by many, despite the fact that Read more of this blog post »

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	A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft, Katha Pollitt (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 26,013 ratings — published 1792 — 254 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights 4.28 avg rating — 2,090 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump's America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay (Editor), Kate Harding (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Editor), Carina Chocano (欧宝娱乐 Author) (Contributor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,011 ratings — published 2017 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories 3.55 avg rating — 530 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Virginity or Death!: And Other Social and Political Issues of Our Time 3.93 avg rating — 229 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism 3.95 avg rating — 192 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture 3.99 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2001 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mind-Body Problem: Poems 3.61 avg rating — 145 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Antarctic Traveller 4.04 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“And yet, women keep trying. They put off the rent or the utilities to scrape together the $500 for a first-trimester abortion. They drive across whole states to get to a clinic and sleep in their cars because they can鈥檛 afford a motel. They do not do this because they are careless sluts or because they hate babies or because they fail to see clearly what their alternatives are. They see the alternatives all too clearly. We live, as Ellen Willis wrote, in a society that is 鈥渁ctively hostile to women鈥檚 ambitions for a better life. Under these conditions the unwillingly pregnant woman faces a terrifying loss of control over her fate.鈥� Abortion, wrote Willis, is an act of self-defense.5”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

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“Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

tags: abortion-rights, feminism, reproductive-rights, women-s-studies

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“A man鈥檚 home is his castle, but a woman鈥檚 body has never been wholly her own. Historically, it鈥檚 belonged to her nation, her community, her father, her family, her husband鈥攊n 1973, when Roe was decided, marital rape was legal in every state. Why shouldn鈥檛 her body belong to a fertilized egg as well?”
― Katha Pollitt, Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

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