Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-Present

ISBN-13: 9780190658847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str.

Margaretta Jolly

Recenzje

Among oral historians of twentieth century women's history and some feminists of a certain age, Margaretta Jolly's Sisterhood and After has been much awaited....Jolly moves from the collective voices of a project to the individual voice of a book author. She confronts issues of choice, diversity, difference, and inequality inside and outside the movement, ambitiously covering the history of a movement that changed the culture, politics, and language of sex and gender as well as discussing the lives of the women who were activists - through all the debates and divisions - with recollections of landmark events, the invasion of the Miss World beauty pageant in 1970, and the founding conference at Ruskin College, Oxford, that same year.

O autorze

Margaretta Jolly is based at the University of Sussex in England, where she is Professor of Cultural Studies and director of the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. Margaretta's work has focused on auto/biography, letter writing and oral history, particularly in relation to women's movements. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001) and author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (2008), for which she won the Feminist and Women's Studies Association UK Book Prize. Working with the British Library in London, Margaretta directed Sisterhood and After: The Womens Liberation Oral History Project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She currently leads The Business of Women's Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing, funded by the Leverhulme and partnered with the British Library.