Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency
Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
1st Edition
Published on 11. July 2018
206 pages
978-1-351-20370-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women's experience of revolutionary agency.
After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of "1968" - why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? - the contributors explore women's historical involvement in "1968" in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women's experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women's studies.
After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of "1968" - why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? - the contributors explore women's historical involvement in "1968" in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women's experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women's studies.
Reviews / Votes
"This volume offers a broad, nuanced, and multidirectional rethinking of the legacy of 1968 through the lens of gender and the ways in which an array of militant feminist practices effect political change. The cross-referencing of chapters and the engagement of individual contributors with each other's arguments succeeds in creating a resonant network of correspondences, overlaps, provocations, contradictions, and tensions."Karin Bauer, McGill UniversityMore details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-351-20370-8 (9781351203708)
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Rethinking the Legacy of 1968
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Persons
Sarah Colvin is the Schroeder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her recent book publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009) and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015).
Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women's movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of 'Sisters in Arms?' - Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).
Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women's movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of 'Sisters in Arms?' - Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).
Content
Introduction: 1968 - the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory 1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz] 2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italy's 1968 [Andrea Hajek] 3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Ireland's 1968 [Chris Reynolds] PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence 4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stoeckl's The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt] 5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zsofia Lorand] 6. Murder is a Feminist Issue: The Case of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen [Clare Bielby] PART III: Women as Violent Actors 7. Coherence in Contradiction: The Spectacle of the Female Terrorist [Dominique Grisard] 8. The Japanese Left and the 'Muslim World' [Claudia Derichs] 9. 'The Mood was an Explosion of Freedom': The 1968 Movement and the Participation of Women Fighters during the Lebanese Civil War [Jennifer Philippa Eggert] 10. Women of Jihad [Daniela Pisoiu]
