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Sisterhood and After - An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present (Paperback)
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Sisterhood and After - An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968-present (Paperback)
Series: Oxford Oral History Series
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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 organizational and collaborative skills they struggled to
acquire as they moved into local government, NGOs and even the
business sector. Jolly provides fresh insight into iconic actions
including the Miss World Protest, the fight to protect abortion
rights, and the peace protest at Greenham Common. Her accounts of
workplace struggles, from Ford and Grunwick to Women Against Pit
Closures and Women and Manual Trades, show how socialist ideals
permeated feminism. She explores men's violence and today's demands
for trans-liberation as areas of continuing feminist concern. Jolly
offers a refreshingly jargon-free exploration of key debates and
theoretical trends, alongside an appreciation of the joyfully
personal aspects of feminism, from families, homes, shopping and
music to relationships, health, aging, death and faith. She
concludes by urging readers to enter the archives of feminist
memory to help map their own political futures. Her work will
appeal to general readers, scholars and practitioners alike.
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