Title: The Women's Liberation Movement : impacts and outcomes /
Authors: Schulz, Kristina,
Year: 2017
Subjects: Feminism History; Women's rights History; Women Social conditions; Feminism; Women Social conditions; Women's rights
Abstract: For over half a century, the countless organizations and initiatives that comprise the Women's Liberation movement have helped to reshape many aspects of Western societies, from public institutions and cultural production to body politics and subsequent activist movements. This collection represents the first systematic investigation of WLM's cumulative impacts and achievements within the West. Here, specialists on movements in Europe, the United States, and Japan systematically investigate outcomes in different countries in the light of a reflective social movement theory, comparing them both implicitly and explicitly to developments in other nations.
Contents: Introduction. A success without impact? Case studies from the women's liberation movements in Europe / Kristina Schulz -- Women's liberation movement and professional equality : the Swiss case / Sarah Kiani -- How the women's movement changed academia : a comparison of Germany and the United States / Stefanie Ehmsen -- Female bodies--fetal subjects? New reproductive technologies, feminist claims, and political change in Switzerland in the 1970/1980s / Leena Schmitter -- Momone and the Bonnes Femmes, or Beauvoir and the MLF / Sylvie Chaperon -- Women and words : literary practices as collective self-discovery / Kristina Schulz -- Lesbian vertigo : living the women's liberation movement on the edge of Europe / Ana Margarida Dias Martins -- Sexy stories and postfeminist empowerment : from Häutungen to Wetlands / Christa Binswanger and Kathy Davis -- Lesbianism as political construction in the French feminist context / Christine Bard -- Gender and class in the Italian women's liberation movement / Marica Tolomelli and Anna Frisone -- "Sisterhood is plain sailing?" Multiracial feminist collectives in 1980s Britain / Natalie Thomlinson -- Uneasy solidarity : the British men's movement and feminism / Lucy Delap -- Echoes of ourselves? Feminisms between East and West in the Leningrad almanac Woman and Russia / Kirsten Harting -- Cyberfeminism on the German-speaking net : contestation beyond binary code / Johanna Niesyto -- The myth and the archives : some reflections on Swedish feminism in the 1970s / Elisabeth Elgán -- After the protest : biographical consequences of movement activism in an oral history of women's liberation in Britain / Margaretta Jolly -- Writing the history of feminisms (old and new) : impacts and impatience / Karen Offen.