The Womens Liberation Movement In Scotland

Author : Sarah Browne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526112248
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The women's liberation movement in Scotland written by Sarah Browne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length account of the women's liberation movement in Scotland, which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social movement of the post-1945 period. In doing so, it reveals the inventiveness and fearlessness of feminist activism, while also pointing towards the importance of considering the movement from the local and grassroots perspectives, presenting a more optimistic account of the enduring legacy of women's liberation. Not only does this book uncover the reach of the WLM but it also considers what case studies of women's liberation can tell us about the ways in which the development of the movement has been portrayed. Previous accounts have tended to equate the fragmentation of the movement with weakness and decline. This book challenges this conclusion, arguing that fragmentation led to a diffusion of feminist ideas into wider society. In the Scottish context, it led to a lively and flourishing feminist culture where activists highlighted important issues such as abortion and violence against women.

Author : Sarah Browne
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719087295
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland, c.1968–c.1979 written by Sarah Browne and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length account of the Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland which, using documentary evidence and oral testimony, charts the origins and development of this important social movement of the post-1945 period. In doing so, it reveals the inventiveness and fearlessness of feminist activism, while also pointing towards the importance of considering the movement from the local and grassroots perspectives, presenting a more optimistic account of the enduring legacy of Women's Liberation. Not only does this book uncover the reach of the WLM but it also considers what case-studies of women's liberation can tell us about the ways in which the development of the movement has been portrayed. Previous accounts have tended to equate the fragmentation of the movement with weakness and decline. This book challenges this conclusion, arguing that fragmentation led to a diffusion of feminist ideas into wider society. And in the Scottish context it led to a lively and flourishing feminist culture where activists highlighted important issues such as abortion and violence against women.

Author : Sarah F. Browne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland C. 1968-1979 written by Sarah F. Browne and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Esther Breitenbach
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Contemporary Scottish Politics written by Esther Breitenbach and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of key newspaper and journal articles, research papers, policy documents and accounts of women in politics that trace the move in the last decade towards the contemporary situation.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Oxford Oral History
ISBN 13 : 0190658843
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisterhood and After written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Oxford Oral History. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement examines the movement's shape and strategy as well as the conditions that gave rise to it. Through personal stories of key activists, the politics of experience is sympathetically evaluated in the context of iconic moments of the movement. It urges today's activists to engage anew with feminist memory in shaping new political futures.

Author : George Stevenson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350066613
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Women's Liberation Movement and the Politics of Class in Britain written by George Stevenson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study of the British Women's Liberation Movement's relationship with class politics. It explores the meaning of class to women's liberationists' identities and activism, both nationally and regionally, using a previously neglected feminist cluster in North East England as a case study. 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.

Author : Elspeth King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Women's Suffrage Movement written by Elspeth King and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gill Hague
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447356322
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Memories of the Domestic Violence Movement written by Gill Hague and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating book, activist and scholar Gill Hague recounts the inspiring story of the violence against women movement in the UK and beyond from 1960s onwards, examining the transformatory politics behind this movement through an important historical and international lens.

Author : Sheila Rowbotham
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1839763914
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daring to Hope written by Sheila Rowbotham and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal history of life, love and women’s liberation In this powerful memoir Sheila Rowbotham looks back at her life as a participant in the women’s liberation movement, left politics and the creative radical culture of a decade in which freedom and equality seemed possible. She reveals the tremendous efforts that were made to transform attitudes and feelings, as well as daily life. After addressing the first British Women’s Liberation Conference at Ruskin College, Oxford in 1970, she went on to encourage night cleaners to unionise, to campaign for nurseries and abortion rights. She played an influential role in discussions of socialist feminist ideas and her books and journalism attracted an international readership. Written with generosity and humour Daring to Hope recreates grassroots networks, communal houses and squats, bringing alive a shared impetus to organise collectively and to love without jealousy or domination. It conveys the shifts occurring in politics and society through kernels of personal experience. The result is a book about liberation in the widest sense.

Author : Margaretta Jolly
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780197601280
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sisterhood and After written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement examines the movement's shape and strategy as well as the conditions that gave rise to it. Through personal stories of key activists, the politics of experience is sympathetically evaluated in the context of iconic moments of the movement. It urges today's activists to engage anew with feminist memory in shaping new political futures.