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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... words themselves do not command.1 But how do I know that, and what kind of authority can I claim to support my reading of this document? On the one hand, I was there. I was a participant in workshop 13. Like much activist print ...
... words. I did not know then that our positioning in the caucus program had resulted from conflicts among the leadership. I do remember that we were struck by it, as if this were some warped version of the Sleeping Beauty story—that, like ...
... words, making the absence visibly present. The coalition across difference, however, did not yet exist except on the page as the assertion of the collective authors' coalitional vision. The positionality of the individual authors is not ...
... words of three or four letters. When the slave master finds out that his wife has been instructing the slave, he forbids further instruction, warning that reading will surely spoil the slave, making him “forever unfit” (57). These words ...
... word was perceived by some to be more present than the written word and thus more authentic and real.1 At the center of consciousness raising—the educative process that helped to swell the ranks of the women's movement—is the immediacy ...
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 |