Lydia Sargent
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Lydia Sargent is a longtime radical American feminist
. She is a writer, author, playwright, and actor. She was a founder and original member of the South End Press
Collective. She organizes the Z Communications
Institute every year as well as teaching classes there. In addition, she works on Z Magazine and Z Videos.
Her plays include "I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine" and "Playbook" with Maxine Klein and Howard Zinn
. She is the editor of Women and Revolution: The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which features a lead essay by Heidi Hartmann
. Lydia Sargent wrote the long-running "Hotel Satire" column for Z Magazine, "where gals come to learn their true purpose on this earth, i.e., to service men".
Feminism
Feminism is a collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and equal opportunities for women. Its concepts overlap with those of women's rights...
. She is a writer, author, playwright, and actor. She was a founder and original member of the South End Press
South End Press
South End Press is a non-profit book publisher run on a model of participatory economics. It was founded in 1977 by Michael Albert, Lydia Sargent, John Schall, Pat Walker, Juliet Schor, Mary Lea, Joe Bowring, and Dave Millikan, among others, in Boston's South End...
Collective. She organizes the Z Communications
Z Communications
Z Communications is a radical left-wing media group founded in 1986 by Michael Albert and Lydia Sargent. It advocates participatory socialism as a replacement for capitalism. Its publications include Z Magazine, ZNet, Z Media, and Z Video.Z Communications is based outside Woods Hole, Massachusetts...
Institute every year as well as teaching classes there. In addition, she works on Z Magazine and Z Videos.
Her plays include "I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine" and "Playbook" with Maxine Klein and Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn was an American historian, academic, author, playwright, and social activist. Before and during his tenure as a political science professor at Boston University from 1964-88 he wrote more than 20 books, which included his best-selling and influential A People's History of the United...
. She is the editor of Women and Revolution: The Unhappy Marriage of Marxism and Feminism (South End Press, 1981), which features a lead essay by Heidi Hartmann
Heidi Hartmann
Heidi Hartmann is a pioneering feminist economist and the founder of the Institute for Women's Policy Research , a scientific research organization formed to meet the need for women-centered, public policy research. She is also the organization's president and a Research Professor at the The...
. Lydia Sargent wrote the long-running "Hotel Satire" column for Z Magazine, "where gals come to learn their true purpose on this earth, i.e., to service men".
External links
- Lydia Sargent's Znet homepage
- Searching for a Post-Sexist Society by Lydia Sargent