Sexed

A History of British Feminism
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-5095-5911-4
Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism.

Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded “LIBERTY FOR EVER!”, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before women won the vote, and rival camps of suffragists who embraced and rejected violence. She considers the contributions of the first female MPs, as well as activists including the Greenham peace protesters and the black and Asian women’s groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

Her goal? To show how successive generations have fiercely contested what it means to be a woman, and why this matters. Biology on its own is not destiny. But this book argues that differences between male and female bodies have always been feminist issues. While gender is a useful concept, women cannot be supported by a politics that forgets that they, like men, are sexed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rustin, Susanna

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Feministische Perspektiven in den Wissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations

Introduction: The Return of Sexual Politics

1. Rebels (1790s-1840s)
2. Organisers (1850s, 1860s)
3. Crusaders (1870s,1880s)
4. Suffragists (1860s-1920s)
5. Legislators (1920s, 1930s)
6. Housewives (1940s, 1950s)
7. Liberators (1960s-1980s)
8. Specialists (1990s, 2000s)
9. Feminists (2010-2023)

Epilogue

Appendix
Sources and further reading
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susanna Rustin is a leader writer on social affairs at The Guardian, where she has worked for more than 20 years. Before that, she worked at the Financial Times. Sexed is her first book.