Making Trouble
Life and Politics
Published on 6. June 2017
384 pages
978-1-78663-152-7 (ISBN)
Description
What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, ageing in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the 'new', in a ruling orthodoxy daily disparaging all it portrays as the 'old'? Delving into her own life and those of others who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal tracks through time to consider her generation of female dreamers, what formed them, how they left their mark on the world, where they are now in times when pessimism seems never far from what remains of public life. Searching for answers, she studies her family history, sexual awakening, ethnic belonging, as well as the peculiarities of the time and place that shaped her own political journeys, with all their urgency, significance, pleasures and absurdities.
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Ebook UK & RoW
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Reflowable
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2 x 8pp b&w plate section
ISBN-13
978-1-78663-152-7 (9781786631527)
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Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.
Content
- Intro
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface to the 2017 edition: How do we join the resistance?
- Losing the struggle
- Provocative rebrandings of feminism
- On the march again
- Acknowledgements
- Prologue
- Living memories
- Ruptures and renovations
- 1. Strictly personal
- In the beginning
- Buried pasts
- Household shadows
- Searching for values
- 2. My Sydney sixties
- Sleeping around
- Anarchism without ends
- Sojourning in perverse normality
- 3. Hearing voices
- Fragile beginnings
- Revolutionary household rotas
- Feminism and motherhood
- 4. Escape into action
- Life as politics
- Ideas in the void?
- Women's cultural renaissance
- Contesting injuries
- Twists of time
- 5. Political timelines
- Battling for words
- The rise and fall of socialist man
- Living with difference
- Women's disputed legacies
- Phallic mother
- Temporal belongings
- 6. When sexual warriors grow old
- Cultures of ageing
- Hazards of autonomy
- The bonds of loss
- The brakes on love
- Age comes of age
- 7. As a rootless cosmpolitan: Jewish questions
- Who's a Jew?
- History lessons
- Faultlines of memory
- The hidden powers of injury
- Critical connections: Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Dissident affiliations
- 8. Ways of belonging
- Generational transmission
- Fragile endings
- Notes and references
- Index
