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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... SUGGESTS, perhaps a bit wryly, that “Eve's desire for 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 ...
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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 |