Men drove the action women fetched coffee, ran the mimeo machines and and served the men. This memoir, originally published by City Lights in 2001 and now reissued in a revised, updated edition by the University of Oklahoma Press, tells the story of Dunbar-Ortiz's life in the women's movement - and quite a life it was.Īctive in radical politics, she couldn't help but notice that it was a male-dominated culture. By the early '60s, she found herself divorced and participating in San Francisco radical politics, reinventing herself as an outlaw radical feminist, traveling the nation on behalf of feminism and becoming one of the founders of the Women's Liberation Movement. For a while, she tried the straight life as a housewife trying to fit in the late-1950s, Eisenhower corporate mold, but that didn't take. These were the people Dunbar-Ortiz worshipped growing up their philosophy was hers. capitalist system rather they were definitely intent on disrupting it. They lived life on the edge, not even trying to 'succeed' or 'make it' in the U.S. They were losers, those outlaws, but no sad sacks.

Outlawing carried on into the era of the Great Depression with Bonnie and Clyde and Pretty Boy Floyd.

Jesse and Frank James, the Younger Brothers, and Belle Starr were all Confederate irregulars whose families had fought alongside Quantrill in the bloody Missouri-Kansas conflict that preceded the federal government's declaration of war to prevent secession of the Confederate states. Some of them did not go down easily but rather became outlaws. Not only had they lost the game of getting rich, but many had fought on the Confederate side of the Civil War. The settlers who streamed in and grabbed Indian land were descendents of, or were themselves, losers. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, an Oklahoman, describes the people who settled her native state, the people she comes from, this way: Outlaw Woman: a Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975 Rambles.NET: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Outlaw Woman: a Memoir of the War Years, 1960-1975

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