Crook / Jeffries Resist, Organize, Build

Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States during the Long 1980s
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8960-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Queer Politics and Cultures

Juxtaposes feminist and queer activism in Britain and the United States in the face of resurgent conservatism during the 1980s.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crook, Sarah

Jeffries, Charlie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980s
Sarah Crook and Charlie Jeffries

Part I: Student Politics and the Body Politic

1. "Aggies are Not Queers" A History of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, 1975–1985
Michael S. Hevel and Charles J. Thompson

2. "Specialty" Listening: Creating Space for Queer Programming on American College Radio in the Long 1980s
Katherine Rye Jewell

Part II: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Borders Action

3. "We were fire-fighting against Thatcher and the system she was putting forward": The Black Women's Movement and the Boundaries of Nationhood in Thatcher's Britain
Jade Bentil

4. "Spiritualists, ideologues, pragmatists, feminists, and women of all descriptions": The British Women's Liberation Movement, the UN Decade for Women, and Feminist Transnationalism in Spare Rib
Charlotte Lydia Riley

Part III: Families, Reproduction, and Health

5. Making Queer Families: Foster Family Activism in Los Angeles, 1977–1985
Nora Kassner

6. Thatcherism, the Black Women's Movement, and the Politics of Motherhood in Britain
Kate Turner

7. A Framework for Choice: The Lasting Influence of 1980s Advocacy on Reproductive Rights in the United States
Tamar Holoshitz

8. Opening DOORWAYS and Closing Others: Tactical Deployments of Respectability, Religion, and Race in the St. Louis Early-AIDS Response
Katie Batza

Part IV: Grassroots Images, Speech, and Power

9. Polareyes: A Magazine by and for Black British Women Photographers as a Site of Resistance in London, 1987
Taous R. Dahmani

10. The Business of Feminism Endures: Four Decades of Spinsters Ink and Aunt Lute Books Publishing Lesbian-Feminist Books in the United States
Julie R. Enszer

11. Lesbians Talk: British Lesbian Politics and the Sex Wars
Flora Dunster

Epilogues

Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern Histories
Sarah Crook

Critically Reflecting (on) the 1980s
Charlie Jeffries

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sarah Crook is Lecturer in Post–1800 European Social and Cultural History at Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom. Charlie Jeffries is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birbeck, University of London in England, United Kingdom.