1st Edition
What's Left? Women in Culture and the Labour Movement
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1990. What had been left out of Left thought? What had allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address itself exclusively to labouring men, despite insistent demands for inclusion from others – notably women – who recognised themselves as belonging to the Left? What’s Left? , a feminist challenge to the male-dominated ideology of... Read more
Preface: May Polls and Morris Dancers; 1. Homage to Orwell: The Dream of a Common Culture and Other Minefields 2. ‘In a Voice Choking with Anger’: Arguments within English Marxism 3. Writing History with a Vengeance: Getting Good Marx with William Morris (and Jane’s Burden) 4. Talking Her Way Out of It: From Class History to Case History 5. ‘Who Speaks for History?’: The Left Historian and His Authentic Subject 6. Culture in the Working Classroom: ‘There’s No Place Like Home’; Postscript; Notes; Index
Biography
Julia Swindells, Lisa Jardine
