Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement in the Western World: 1960-1999

ISBN-13: 9780367530600 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 176 str.

Laurel Forster; Sue Bruley

Opis

This book asks how the Women’s Liberation Movement and the feminism of the late 60s, 70s and 80s might be reconsidered and historicised, and acknowledges the significance of this movement to ongoing contemporary feminisms. This book was first published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Spis treści

Introduction: Historicising the Women’s Liberation Movement  1. Etchings from the Attic: looking back at feminist print-making from the 1980s  2. Women’s Liberation at the Grass Roots: a view from some English towns, c.1968–1990  3. The Women’s Movement and ‘Class Struggle’: gender, class formation and political identity in women’s strikes, 1968–78  4. White Women, Anti-Imperialist Feminism and the Story of Race within the US Women’s Liberation Movement  5. ‘A Job That Should Be Respected’: contested visions of motherhood and English Canada’s second wave women’s movements, 1970–1990  6. The 1944 Education Act and Second Wave Feminism  7. Spreading the Word: feminist print cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement  8. Fighting for Recovery: foremothers and feminism in the 1970s  9. Theorising the Women’s Liberation Movement as Cultural Heritage

O autorze

Laurel Forster is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth, UK, where she researches women’s cultural history and media representations of gender. She has published on gender politics and activism, war zones and the domestic sphere, and literary modernism. Her recent book, Magazine Movements: Women’s Culture, Feminisms and Media Form (2015), reflects her specialism in periodicals. Her current projects include a study of political magazine cultures and a history of British Women’s Print Media. Sue Bruley is a Reader in Modern History at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She specialises in women and gender relations in twentieth-century Britain, particularly in regard to oral testimony. Her last book was The Women and Men of 1926, The General Strike and Miners’ Lockout in South Wales (2011). She is currently leading a project recovering oral feminist histories in the city of Portsmouth.