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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... create the occasion for the building of a coalitional “we.” The we-saying is thus doubly valenced, offering ideal and critique at once. If the leadership wanted to include more women in the political process—to use for political ...
... creating artwork or illustrating copy, running printing presses, or distributing print materials. Nevertheless, the material traces of such literate production—the very texts that surround the drawings and photographs of active women in ...
... created by the recognition of a tainted literacy was reinforced by a culturally widespread romanticism that placed greatest value on the spontaneous, the present, the immediate. The spoken word was perceived by some to be more present ...
... create through print spaces for contact among a broad range of movement women eroded as “more and more women acquired prestige, fame, or money from feminist writings or from gains from feminist movement for equality in the workforce ...
... create a liberatory feminist praxis” (hooks, “Feminist Theory” 112), it would be well for us to look for sites where ... created groups” (126). She names this phenomenon the “women's university-without—walls”: “It could be said that a ...
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 |