The first issue of the Heresies journal was published in 1977 by the Heresies Collective, based in New York City. The "mother collective" included Patsy Beckert, Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Harmony Hammond, Elizabeth Hess, Joyce Kozloff, Arlene Ladden, Lucy Lippard, Mary Miss, Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Pat Steir, May Stevens, Michelle Stuart, Susana Torre, Elizabeth Weatherford, Sally Webster, Nina Yankowitz, many of whom contributed work to this issue.
Table of Contents
- Introduction by the First-Issue Collective
- "Toward Socialist Feminism" (Barbara Ehrenreich)
- "Women and Honor: Some Notes on Lying" (Adrienne Rich)
- "The Art of Not Bowing: Writing by Women in Prison" (Carol Muske)
- "La Roquette, Women's Prison" (Le Groupe de Cinq)
- "Foys, Floozies and Philosophical Flaws" (Arlene Ladden)
- "The Esthetics of Power in Modern Erotic Art" (Carol Duncan)
- "Feminist Abstract Art - A Political Viewpoint" (Harmony Hammond)
- "'Female Experience in Art': The Impact of Women's Art in a Work Environment" (Ruth E. Iskin)
- "Women in the Community Mural Movement" (Eva Cockcroft)
- "The Pink Glass Swan: Upward and Downward Mobility in the Art World" (Lucy Lippard)
- "Jugging Contradictions: Feminism, the Individual and What's Left" (Joan Braderman)
- "Wages For Housework: The Strategy for Women's Liberation" (Pat Sweeney)