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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... knowledge, such knowledge may be premised on a fairly unexamined opinion, whose rhetorical force comes from its appeal to the “authentic.” When opinion claims to be unas— sailable because it is based on experience, authoritybecomes ...
... knowledge prefigures the drive for literacy, for access to books and education, that runs as a powerful current through the long history of intellectual women, as well as of women who struggle for the basics of literacy” (31—32). In ...
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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 |