Katha Pollitt

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Katha Pollitt (2007)

Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949 ) is an American poet, writer, critic and essayist. She wrote four collections of essays and two volumes of poetry. She takes a politically left-wing standpoint in her work and deals with political and social problems. Among other things, she deals with topics such as abortion , racism , feminism and poverty .

Career

Pollitt was born in Brooklyn Heights , New York, to a Protestant attorney and a Jewish real estate agent. Her parents encouraged her to pursue her interest in poetry. Pollitt writes extensively about her family in Learning to Drive, which is dedicated to her parents .

In 1972 Pollitt graduated from Radcliffe College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy . In 1975 she received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University .

Act

Pollitt is best known for her " Subject to Debate " column in The Nation magazine . Her work has also been featured in other publications, including Ms. Magazine , the New York Times , and the literary magazine London Review of Books . Her poems have appeared in several anthologies and magazines, such as the New Yorker and Oxford Book of American Poetry 2006. She has also appeared in NPR's Fresh Air and All Things Considered , Charlie Rose, The McLaughlin Group , CNN , Dateline NBC , and on BBC .

Pollitt's work is often a defense of modern feminist currents and identity politics , and it also addresses criticisms and misconceptions of these issues across the political spectrum. Other topics that often find themselves in her work include abortion , the media, US foreign policy , poverty , and human rights movements around the world.

1991 established Pollitt the term "The Smurfette Principle " ( "The Smurfette Principle"). The principle describes an inequality in the main characters of well-known cartoon series: Often there is only one, often very stereotypically portrayed, female main character (like Smurfette from the series The Smurfs ) in a large number of male main characters.

In 2003, Pollitt signed the Humanist Manifesto Humanism and Its Aspirations: Humanist Manifesto III, a Successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933 of the American Humanist Association .

Publications

Essay collections

In 1994, Pollitt published Reasonable Creatures: Essays on Women and Feminism, a collection of nineteen essays, some of which originally appeared in The Nation magazine. The title of the book is a reference to a quotation from Mary Wollstonecraft's 1794 treatise A Vindication of the Rights of Woman : “I wish to see women neither heroines nor brutes; but reasonable creatures . "

Most of her essays from The Nation from 1994 to 2001 were collected and published in Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Woman, Politics and Culture in 2001 .

In June 2006, Random House published her book Virginity or Death !: And Other social and Political Issues of Our Time , a collection of 84 of her The Nation's columns.

In 2007, Pollitt published Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories ( Random House ), a collection of personal essays, a departure from her otherwise very political work.

Learning to Drive was adapted into a film in 2014 by screenwriter Sarah Kernochan and director Isabel Coixet with Patricia Clarkson in the leading role.

poetry

Pollitt's first published work was a poetry collection called Antarctic Traveler ( Knopf , 1982), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1983 .

Her second volume of poetry, The Mind-Body Problem, was published in 2009. An excerpt from it was published in the British literary magazine Granta .

Pros: Reclaiming Abortion Rights

According to Pollitt, her work was Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights (2014), intended as a response to the “feeling of many Pro-Choice representatives that we need to be more assertive and less defensive” (“ We need to be more assertive, less defensive” ) . Pollitt believes that abortion must be discussed in a way that recognizes that termination of pregnancy is an integral part of women's reproductive rights. She bases her argument on the view that abortion contributes to the common good and is an "essential option for women". She argues that the issue also affects how young girls are talked about their menstrual cycle and what resources are available for families. Furthermore, the decision to terminate the pregnancy should not be viewed in isolation as the act of an independently thinking woman, but requires the “cooperation of many people beyond the woman herself” . In October 2014, Pollitt said that in the Jewish tradition “there is no concept of the human fetus. According to Jewish law, you become a person as soon as you take your first breath ”.

A group of feminist scholars and activists analyzed Pro: Reclaiming Abortion Rights for "Short Takes: Provocations on Public Feminism," an initiative of the academic feminist journal Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . The comments also include a response from Pollitt.

Private life

On June 6, 1987, Pollitt married Randy Cohen, author of the New York Times Magazine Kulumne "The Ethicist". They later divorced. The two have a daughter, Sophie Pollitt-Cohen (born September 25, 1987), author of the bestseller The Notebook Girls . It was created during her time at Stuyvesant High School.

On April 29, 2006, Pollitt married the political scientist Steven Lukes . You live in Manhattan .

Awards, recognitions

bibliography

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.enotes.com/topics/katha-pollitt#critical-essays-pollitt-katha-vol-122
  2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/books/review/Bentley-t.html
  3. ↑ https://hpd.de/node/274
  4. ↑ Author Bios . In: The Nation.com . Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  5. ↑ Katha Pollitt: The Smurfette Principle , New York Times Magazine. April 7, 1991. Retrieved January 7, 2014. 
  6. ↑ The Smurfette Principle . TV Tropes. Retrieved August 6, 2014.
  7. ↑ Notable Signers . In: Humanism and Its Aspirations . American Humanist Association. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012. Retrieved October 6, 2012.
  8. ^ Reasonable Creatures by Katha Pollitt . In: enotes.com, Magill Book Reviews . Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  9. ↑ Donna Seaman, Review of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture . In: Booklist , February 1, 2001. 
  10. ^ Review of Virginity or Death . In: Publishers Weekly , June 13, 2006. 
  11. ↑ Terry Gross and Katha Pollitt, interview: Katha Pollitt: Learning to Drive in Public . In: NPR "Fresh Air" . November 8, 2007.
  12. ↑ Schine, Cathleen: The In-Between Woman . In: The New York Review of Books . November 22, 2007. Retrieved August 10, 2011.
  13. ↑ Anya Jaremko-Greenwold, Anya Jaremko-Greenwold: Watch: Ben Kingsley Gives Patricia Clarkson Wisdom and Driving Lessons in 'Learning to Drive' Trailer. In: IndieWire. April 16, 2015, accessed August 5, 2019 .
  14. ^ Reasonable Creature by Katha Pollitt . In: enotes.com, Magill Book Reviews . Retrieved August 14, 2011.
  15. ^ Three poems . May 13, 2009.
  16. ↑ a b Tara Metal: Pro: An Interview with Katha Pollitt . In: Jewish Women's Archives , October 12, 2014. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. 
  17. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/katha-pollitt-pro-reclaiming-abortion-rights-review.html
  18. ↑ Katha Pollitt: Pro: reclaiming abortion rights . Picador, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-250-05584-2 (English).
  19. ↑ http://signsjournal.org/pro/
  20. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/fashion/weddings/katha-pollitt-and-steven-lukes.html
  21. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20101217052917/http://ffrf.org/news/releases/honorary-ffrf-board-announced/
  22. ↑ https://americanhumanist.org/awardees/
personal data
SURNAME Pollitt, Katha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet, writer, critic, and essayist
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1949