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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... experience, then authority becomes a matter of interpreting one's life, often without reference to the as— sumptions, beliefs, or methods by which that interpretation is accomplished. When personal experience is the basis for critical ...
... experience,” but I couldn't know from the inside what it means to be a poor woman on welfare with limited access to schooling and jobs. My role as recorder may have made it easier on some level for other participants to teach me what I ...
... experiences to educate themselves. A fundamental tenet of women's liberation was that women had to learn to rely on one another because, it was argued, much that had been written was written by men for men, even when it was written ...
... experiences,” as Kathie Sarachild put it, women learned to speak out loud and ideally to listen to other women speaking (“A Program” 79). Although consciousness raising was conceptualized to involve more than speaking, as I will discuss ...
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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 |