Feminist Literacies, 1968-75In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising. Kathryn Thoms Flannery discusses this outpouring and the group education, brainstorming, and creative activism it fostered as the manifestation of a feminist literacy quite separate from women's studies programs at universities or the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism. Seeking to break down traditional barriers such as the dichotomies of writer/reader or student/teacher, these new works also forged polemical alternatives to the forms of argumentation traditionally used to silence women, creating a space for fresh voices. Feminist Literacies explores these truly radical feminist literary practices and pedagogies that flourished during a brief era of volatility and hope. |
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... National Women's Political Caucus (NWPC) was formed in 1971 by a coalition of some 200 women including Bella Abzug, Shirley Chisholm, Betty Friedan, Patsy Minsk, and Gloria Steinem (Hole and Levine 426—27). They sought to increase the ...
... National Welfare Rights organizer, and the chairwoman of the National Caucus of Spanish—Speaking Women served as the conveners and resource people for this session. Of the almost 150 conveners listed for the caucus, including nationally ...
... National Product increase by 93 percent in the course of the sixties. Unemployment had steadily decreased from a high of 6.7 percent in 1961 to a low of 3.5 percent in 1969. The minimum hourly wage had risen in constant (1996) dollars ...
Contents
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Feminist Periodicals | 23 |
Reclaiming Feminish Polemic | 60 |
3 That Train Full of Poetry | 97 |
Feminist Performance Work | 132 |
5 The DoItYourself Classroom | 168 |
1972 New York State Womens Political Caucus List of Conveners | 203 |
Notes | 209 |
Works Cited | 231 |
Index | 249 |