Stirring It

Introduction: Stirring It: Challenges for Feminism Section I: Feminist Politics in Action Introduction 1. Paying Our Disrespects to the Bloody States We're In: Women, Violence, Culture and the State 2. History Of Women's Liberation Movements in Britain: A Reflective Personal History 3. Non-Decision Making... A Management Guide to Keeping Women's Interest Issues Off the Political Agenda Section II: Disrupting Sexual and Gender Identities? Introduction 4. Dire Straights? Contemporary Rehabilitations of Heterosexuality 5. Flaunting The Body: Gender and Identity in American Feminist Performance 6. Anti-Monogamy: A Radical Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality? Section III: Imaging and Imagining Introduction 7. Angry Young Women? Sex and Class in Neil Dunn's Up the Junction 8. 'Not Happy but Hopeful': Readers of Catherine Cookson in the Northeast of England 9. Splitting the Difference: Adventures in the Anatomy and Embodiment of Women Section IV: Women's Studies and Feminist Practice Introduction 10. Interventions in Hostile Territory 11. Eastern European Women with Western Eyes 12. Relations among Women: Using the Group to Unite Theory and Experience Notes on Contributors Index