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

1st Edition

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

Edited By Laurel Forster, Sue Bruley Copyright 2018
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge
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The Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s emerged out of a particular set of economic and social circumstances in which women were unequally treated in the home, the workplace and in culture and wider society. As part of the WLM, women collected together in disparate groups and contexts to express their dissatisfaction with their role and position in society,... Read more

Introduction: Historicising the Women’s Liberation Movement Sue Bruley and Laurel Forster

1. Etchings from the Attic: looking back at feminist print-making from the 1980s Lisa Taylor

2. Women’s Liberation at the Grass Roots: a view from some English towns, c.1968–1990 Sue Bruley

3. The Women’s Movement and ‘Class Struggle’: gender, class formation and political identity in women’s strikes, 1968–78 George Stevenson

4. White Women, Anti-Imperialist Feminism and the Story of Race within the US Women’s Liberation Movement Say Burgin

5. ‘A Job That Should Be Respected’: contested visions of motherhood and English Canada’s second wave women’s movements, 1970–1990 Lynne Marks, Margaret Little, Megan Gaucher and T.R. Noddings

6. The 1944 Education Act and Second Wave Feminism Phillida Bunkle

7. Spreading the Word: feminist print cultures and the Women’s Liberation Movement Laurel Forster

8. Fighting for Recovery: foremothers and feminism in the 1970s Janet Floyd

9. Theorising the Women’s Liberation Movement as Cultural Heritage Deborah Withers

Biography

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.

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