The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17828-1 (ISBN)
Stevenson demonstrates that British feminism was shaped fundamentally by its relationship to, synthesis with, and rejection of class politics. Through these processes, feminists recognised how post-war changes in the economy and gender roles were reshaping class and the Women's Liberation Movement attempted to remake class politics in response. However, socio-economic and cultural class differences between the women involved - linked to occupation, education and background - remained intractable obstacles causing tensions within groups, fragmentations into specific class-based groups and the ultimate failure of the movement to coalesce into a coherent coalition with labour politics, despite great levels of solidarity around particular struggles.
Examining regional feminism against the national backdrop, The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain provides an engaging exploration of the fruitful but challenging relationship between British feminism and class politics in a capitalist society.
George Stevenson is the Social and Cultural Studies Module Convenor at INTO Newcastle University, UK. He completed a PhD in history at Durham University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Southampton, UK. He has published articles in the Labour History Review, Women's History Review and History Workshop Online.
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Introduction
Part I - Production and Reproduction: The Class Politics of Feminism
1. The Women's Liberation Movement and Class Politics
2. Women Workers in the 1970s: Feminists or Part of the Class Struggle?
3. Class Struggle in the Reproductive Sphere
Part II - Individuals in Movement: The Personal, the Political and the Universal
4. Struggling with 'Sisterhood': Class within the WLM
5. Class, Autobiography and Collective Memory in the WLM
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 3 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 404 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-17828-4 / 1350178284 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-17828-1 / 9781350178281 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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