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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... Baker Ir. calls an act of “critical memory.” To recover some fuller understanding of the literacy practices and pedagogies of the women's movement requires reading such fragments of movement activism in relation to XX - PREFACE.
... practice. Susan Andrade, Paul Bové, Brenda Glascott, Nancy Glazener, Jonathan Arac, Iaime Harker, Paul Kameen, Maggie Rehm, and Robyn Wiegman have each extended my thinking in invaluable ways. Dave Bartholomae, Iim Seitz, and Mariolina ...
... practices and their discourse seems to me to reside in the tension between the inventive capacities of individuals or communities and the constraints, norms, and conventions that limit...what it is possible for them to think, say, and ...
... practices that had operated historically as class marker, sign of patriarchal power, or a means to exercise hierarchical authority. At the same time, feminists were engaged in activities to increase women's access to the means of ...
... practice, to create a liberatory feminist praxis” (hooks, “Feminist Theory” 112), it would be well for us to look for sites where such struggle has taken place. To do so,I have chosen to consider literacy practices outside the classroom ...
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 |