Race, Ethnicity and the Women's Movement in England, 1968-1993

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-349-57039-3
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3649 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

This book is the first archive-based account of the charged debates around race in the women's movement in England during the 'second wave' period. Examining both the white and the Black women's movement through a source base that includes original oral histories and extensive research using feminist periodicals, this book seeks to unpack the historical roots of long-running tensions between Black and white feminists. It gives a broad overview of the activism that both Black and white women were involved in, and examines the Black feminist critique of white feminists as racist, how white feminists reacted to this critique, and asks why the women's movement was so unable to engage with the concerns of Black women. Through doing so, the book speaks to many present day concerns within the women's movement about the politics of race, and indeed the place of identity politics within the left more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thomlinson, Natalie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The (White) WLM, c.1968–1975
2. Black Women's Activism c. 1970–1990
3. Jewish Feminism in England, c. 1974–1990
4. White Anti-Racist, Anti-Fascist and Anti-Imperialist Feminism, c. 1976–1980
5. Critique and Coalitions: Black and White Feminists Working Together in the 1980s

Über Autor(innen)

Natalie Thomlinson is Lecturer in History at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.