Re-reading Spare Rib
Published on 10. August 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
XIII, 238 pages
978-3-319-84129-8 (ISBN)
Description
Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993). This collection examines various aspects of the magazine - based on the digitised publication by the British Library in 2015 - in order to explore the ways in which it has influenced society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the lives of individual readers. By analysing several articles from a modern, post-feminist perspective, and using cross-generational interviews of Spare Rib readers and reflective accounts of reading the publication, the significance and endurance of the publication is demonstrated. Written by both academics, experienced researchers and independent scholars alike, the inter-disciplinary nature of the text results in a multi-dimensional reading of Spare Rib suitable for both an academic and general readership interested in cultural and media studies.
More details
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 s/w Abbildungen
XIII, 238 p. 2 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 148 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
331 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-319-84129-8 (9783319841298)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-49310-7
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Person
Professor Angela Smith is Lecturer at the School of Culture, University of Sunderland. Angela has published widely in the areas of media discourse, sociolinguistics and gender. She is author of
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War
(2011) and with Claire Nally co-edited
Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming and Preforming Femininity (
2015). With Claire Nally, she is editor of the I.B. Tauris International Library of Gender in Popular Culture.
Content
1. Introduction. - 2. What did it mean?': A Generational Conversation Edmonds and White.- 3. Feminist Perspectives: North East and National, Scanlon.- 4. Reflections on reading Spare Rib: personal and political, Quaid.- 5. From Spare Rib to spare part: from over to covert sexism in education, Cooper.- 6. Workplace: women's place Bryans, Fraser and Armstrong.- 7. Styling Feminism: the view from Spare RibSmith.- 8. Defending ourselves: British female martial arts students in the 1970s.Fotiadou.- 9. The frontiers of sisterhood: representations of black feminism in Spare Rib (1972-1979), Chambers and Worrell. - 10. An exploration of Spare Rib's treatment of violence between women in same sex relationships, Donovan.- 11. 'A new kind of trade': advertising feminism in Spare Rib, Bazin.- 12. On the Road: Spare Rib, Liberation and Women's Writing, Kerr-Koch.-