[Drop title] The Politics of Touch

Baltimore, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. printed from typescript. Near Fine condition. "The act of touching, when nonreciprocal, is, I believe, an even more subtle physical threat used to remind persons of their status, and is particularly used by men against women" (p.2). A paper presented at the 1970 meeting of the American Psychological Association "as part of a panel discussion of 'Social Psychology and Women's Liberation.'" The Pittsburgh-based women's liberation association Know, Inc., would reprint this paper the same year. OCLC locates three copies of this edition as of April, 2019, at Central Connecticut, Northwestern, and U. Michigan.