Sisterhood And After Av Margaretta (professor Of Cultural Studies Professor Of Cultural Studies School Of Media Film And Music University Of Sussex) J

This ground-breaking history of the UK Women''s Liberation Movement shows why and how feminism''s ''second wave'' mobilized to demand not just equality but social and gender transformation.Oral history testimonies power the work, tracing the arc of a feminist life from 1950s girlhoods to late life activism today. Peppered with personal stories, the book casts new light on feminist critiques of society and on the lives of prominent and grassroots activists.Margaretta Jolly uses oral history as creative method, making significant use of Sisterhood and After: The Women''s Liberation Oral History Project to animate still-unresolved controversies of race, class, sexuality, disability, and feminist identity.Women activists vividly recall a divisive education system, the unevenness of sexual liberation and the challenges of Thatcherism, Northern Ireland''s Troubles and the policing of minority ethnic communities. They illuminate key campaigns in these wider contexts, and talk of the organizat

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