The Women's Liberation Movement: Impacts and Outcomes

Published by Berghahn Books 2017

The Women's Liberation Movement

Impacts and Outcomes

Edited by: Kristina Schulz

Volume 22 in the series Protest, Culture & Society

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785335877

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About this book

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 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 parts of the world.

Author / Editor information

Kristina Schulz, PhD, is Professor for Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. She is a specialist of Western feminist history in comparative perspective and is the author of a book on the French and German WLM: ‘Der lange Atem der Provokation.’ Die Frauenbewegung in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich (1968-1976). Together with Leena Schmitter and Sarah Kiani she published a source and archive guide about the Swiss Women’s Liberation Movement in 2014. With Magda Kaspar she created an audio archive and interactive website about the feminist movement in Switzerland from the 1970s to the present (Frauenbewegung 2.0).

Reviews

“This book is rich in content and thoroughly researched. Several chapters bring relatively un-known movement dynamics to an English-speaking audience for the first time. These contributions provide important empirical evidence of what the diversity of the many Western European Women’s Liberation Movements actually stand for, what they do, and how they develop.” · Susanne Zwingel, Florida International University

“Both exciting and very well-written, this book offers original empirical work on a range of core issues related to the Women’s Liberation Movements. It is based on multiple methods of case studies, and brings forward refreshing empirical material and methodological reflections. There are so many myths about feminism and WLM that claims and descriptions based on solid research, such as those offered by this collection, are essential.” · Beatrice Halsaa, University of Oslo

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
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Introduction: A Success without Impact? Case Studies from the Women’s Liberation Movements in Europe Kristina Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I The Women’s Liberation Movement and Institutional Change: Introductory Remarks
Chapter 1 Women’s Liberation Movement and Professional Equality The Swiss Case Brigitte Studer and Sarah Kiani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2 How the Women’s Movement Changed Academia: A Comparison of Germany and the United States Brigitte Studer and Stefanie Ehmsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
Chapter 3 Female Bodies—Fetal Subjects? New Reproductive Technologies, Feminist Claims, and Political Change in Switzerland in the 1970/1980s Brigitte Studer and Leena Schmitter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
Part II Sharing Words
Introductory Remarks Silja Behre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Chapter 4 Momone and the Bonnes Femmes; or Beauvoir and the MLF Sylvie Chaperon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Chapter 5 Women and Words: Literary Practices as Collective Self-Discovery Kristina Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Chapter 6 Lesbian Vertigo: Living the Women’s Liberation Movement on the Edge of Europe Ana Margarida Dias Martins Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
Chapter 7 Sexy Stories and Postfeminist Empowerment: From Häutungen to Wetlands Christa Binswanger and Kathy Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Part III Identities at Stake: Gender, Race, Class
Introductory Remarks Lucy Delap and Thierry Delessert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
Chapter 8 Lesbianism as Political Construction in the French Feminist Context Christine Bard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 9 Gender and Class in the Italian Women’s Liberation Movement Marica Tolomelli and Anna Frisone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
Chapter 10 “Sisterhood Is Plain Sailing?” Multiracial Feminist Collectives in 1980s Britain Natalie Thomlinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
Chapter 11 Uneasy Solidarity: The British Men’s Movement and Feminism Lucy Delap Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	214
Part IV Beyond National Boundaries
Introductory Remarks Lucy Delap and Thierry Delessert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
Chapter 12 Echoes of Ourselves? Feminisms between East and West in the Leningrad Almanac Woman and Russia Kirsten Harting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Chapter 13 Cyberfeminism on the German-Speaking Net: Contestation beyond Binary Code Johanna Niesyto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Part V Thinking about Impact and Change: Concepts and Research Strategies
Introductory Remarks Magda Kaspar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Chapter 14 The Myth and the Archives: Some Reflections on Swedish Feminism in the 1970s Elisabeth Elgán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
Chapter 15 After the Protest: Biographical Consequences of Movement Activism in an Oral History of Women’s Liberation in Britain Margaretta Jolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
Chapter 16 Writing the History of Feminisms (Old and New) Impacts and Impatience Karen Offen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	320
Postscript Kristina Schulz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	346

Language: English
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 372
Keywords: womens liberation movement; investigation of wlms impacts; reshape aspects of western societies; public institutions and cultural production; body politics and activist movements; reflective social movement theory; cumulative impacts and achievements; political

eBook

Published: July 1, 2017
ISBN: 9781785335877