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Kathleen Thompson
Kathleen Thompson (born September 12, 1946) is an American feminist, writer, and activist. She was first known for co-authoring with Andra Medea the feminist classic ''Against Rape'' (Farrar, Straus, 1974), the book that broke the silence about rape not only in the United States, but around the world.〔Bevacqua, Maria. ''Rape on the Public Agenda.'' Northeastern University press, 2000, p. 47〕 She exposed the American diet industry's exploitation of women in ''Feeding on Dreams'' (MacMillanUSA, 1994), written with psychologist Diane Pinkert Epstein. She was co-author, with pre-eminent historian Darlene Clark Hine, of ''A Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America''. (Broadway Books, 1998), the first narrative history of black women in America. She then collaborated with Hilary Mac Austin on three print documentaries of groups underrepresented in ''American history: The Face of Our Past: Images of Black Women from Colonial America to the Present'' (Indiana University Press, 1999), ''Children of the Depression'' (Indiana University Press, 2000), and America's Children: Repicturing Childhood from Exploration to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2001). Thompson also served on the board of senior editors with Hine, Deborah Grey White, Brenda Stephenson, and other major scholars in the field on the second edition of the landmark encyclopedia ''Black Women in America'' (Oxford University Press, 2005). In addition to these adult trade books, she has written more than one hundred books for children and young adults〔Library of Congress〕 and has had eleven plays〔Commons Theatre Collection, Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center, Special Collections, Chicago Theater Collection.〕 produced in Chicago, New York City, and other cities.
Thompson's activism began with the civil rights movement in Oklahoma City in 1963. She participated in anti-war activities that included the March on Washington for Peace in Vietnam in 1965. In 1969, she opened Chicago's first feminist bookstore, Pride and Prejudice, which later became the Women's Center of Chicago, of which she was a founding member. The Women's Center offered consciousness-group organizing, pregnancy testing, abortion counselling, an artists collective, and a number of other services for women. The Women's Center co-sponsored, with Chicago Lesbian Liberation, the first public all-woman dance event in Chicago, the Family of Women.〔''Finding the Movement: Sexuality, Contested Space, and Feminist Activism'', Anne Enke (Duke University Press, 2007)〕 Thompson worked with Medea to present one of the first rape conferences in the country, which took place in 1972 at the Chicago Loop Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), then under the leadership of feminist activist Diann Deweese Smith. She was also a founding member of Chicago Women Against Rape. With Austin, she co-founded OneHistory, an organization dedicated to making heard all the voices of American history.〔"OneHistory's Founders," http://www.onehistory.org〕 More recently, she has been involved in anti-gang activism in the Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago.
==''Against Rape''==
In April 1972, Andra Medea organized the Midwest's first conference on the subject of rape, held at the downtown YWCA. Inspired by that conference, Medea and Kathleen Thompson wrote the book ''Against Rape'', which went through seven printings before its official publication date, was serialized in hundreds of newspapers around the country, and remained in print for eighteen years. It was widely used in rape crisis centers and women's studies courses and was the primary text for the self-defense courses for women of Chimera, Inc. for more than a decade. The focus of the book was to analyze the causes and patterns of rape in order to a) reduce its power in the minds and lives of women; b) enable women and men to begin to change a society that engendered it; and c) help women avoid and/or survive the trauma of rape. It was where Medea's innovative self-defense methods were first developed and published. According to Thompson, the writers kept in mind two criteria for their work. First, the book must be readable by the women they went to high school with. Second, it must avoid the sensationalism and fear-mongering that keep women from being able even to think about rape. They succeeded in both those aims while presenting a powerfully feminist analysis that pulled no punches about the sources of rape within the culture.
Two other important books on the subject were published in 1974—''Rape: How to Avoid It and What to do About It If You Can't'', by June Bundy Csida and Joseph Csida (Books for Better Living); and ''Rape: A First Sourcebook for Women by the New York Radical Feminists'' (New American Library).〔 It was a time when women across the country were coming to terms with what Medea and Thompson call "all the hatred, contempt and oppression of women in this society concentrated in one act." Organizations similar to Chicago Women Against Rape were formed in other large cities and small towns. Women created and staffed rape crisis hotlines and worked to reform treatment of women in hospitals, by police and by courts. In 1975, Susan Brownmiller's ''Against Our Will'' added a profound historical and philosophical element to the discussion.
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