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... Taking Back Times Square Feminist Repertoires and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Second Wave Feminism Claire Bond Potter Charlotte Bunch, a peace activist and former member of the radical lesbian femi- nist collective The Furies, looked out over more than five thousand women...

..., and in turn, second-wave feminism. Arguing that many of the philosophies and movement priorities of second-wave feminism can be traced through Friedan to radical-left politics of the 1930s and 1940s, Horowitz expands our understanding of the intellectual...

... the gendered experience of the 1990s neoliberal crisis from the “feminization” of the workforce, the rise in child mortality due to malnutrition, and, as a result, the increase in deaths from clandestine abortions. The second section details the development of gendered consciousness among working-class women...

..., this was a misreading even of the original 1982 New Yo& Times Sunday Magazine article, ”Voices From the Postfeminist Generation,” which first popularized the term.l Partly because of the phenomenal cultural impact of second-wave feminism, by the late 1970s and early 1980s, young women of the postfeminist...

... and theorize the radical care that Hobart and Kneese write of is to recognize second-wave feminism’s limited imagination with respect to state violence. As Emily Thuma documents, feminists of color who took on militant self-defense as a “grassroots alternative to abusive men and an unresponsive state...

... 2016 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2016 rape self-defense second-wave feminism antirape movement ANTIVIOLENCE ACTIVISM AND THE STATE Fighting Back, Claiming Power Feminist Rhetoric and Resistance to Rape in the 1970s Catherine O. Jacquet In early...

... existed well before her linguistic formulation and the second-wave feminism that helped to precipitate it. Using the United Kingdom as a case study, this essay traces the changing framework of sex as work, concentrating on rights activists’ imaginative revisions of a work paradigm in political debates...

..., historians were no less political in their constructions of the history of feminism. We were clearly influenced more by contemporary, so-called Second Wave theorists and histo- rians than by late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century definitions. Our purpose was no longer to allay the fears...

...- tions. This belief in organizing was one of women’s liberation’s defining characteris- tics—one that distinguished it from later incarnations of second-wave feminism. Once convinced of the legitimacy of their cause, women’s liberation activists used...

...- class formation oversimplify the profound cultural and economic impact of human migration. Second, it highlights the fragmentation of the needle trades into separate but interconnected industries with a close link between production and consumption-between garment making and fashion...

...). Issue,” Liberation News Service 415 (26 February 1972) The Emergence of Letter from a Welfare Mother, ”The Second Wave” Women (n.d.) Buechler, Introduction in Women‘s Movements in the US: Woman Community...

.... Both the incitement and prohibition of desire facilitated, in his mind, the policing of society. Feminists like myself have found Foucault's decentered, local- ized understanding of power in many ways compatible with the decentered, localized insights of second-wave feminism. After all...

... whose social lives revolved around gay bars. Liz Kennedy and Madeline Davis were in the vanguard of this second wave of scholarship as they chronicled the bar culture of Buffalo's working-class lesbians. Their Bmts of Leather, Slippers of Gold is the first book-length study of any lesbian...

... the language of feminism is contested in Palestinian social and political spheres, Palestinian feminist trajectories are compatible with and necessary for the actualization of Palestinian liberation and freedom from Zionist rule. 7. Giovannetti, “Palestinians Demand Legal Protection.” 8...

... by a renewed feminism and the counterculture, did not crest until the early 1970s. Anderson‘s second assumption is a profoundly genera- tional view of social protest. The two waves of activists were ”chil- dren of the fifties” (xix) and “children of the sixties,” respectively (xx). Everywhere...

... elaborated on the hard wiring of X and Y chromosomes. Women's historians developed a rich field based on the political insights and commitments of the second wave of fem- inism. From recovering evidence of women's lives, women's historians moved to broader considerations of the relationship...

..., but because, in a conservative envi- ronment, issues of "authenticity" have very serious political effects on the status and treatment of minority women in the academy and in society at large. By the discussion of three themes-authenticity and pluralism, Chinese and Euro-American feminism...

...” in their origins, while eliding the failures of successive feminisms to reckon with race and coloniality. At the same time, we also easily hear now that riot grrrls (like so-­called second-­wave feminists) should have tried harder to include women of color. This retrospective stance sometimes registers...

...). THE ABUSABLE PAST/199 Behind these headlines stood a number of academic prognosticators with rather cloudy crystal balls who warned that a wave of faculty retirements and student enrollments would leave lecterns empty around the country within a matter of years. Most notable among the "experts...

... internationalist politics, not peripheral to them. The issue therefore insists on the centrality of questions of gender and sexuality to the internationalism and global politics of the period. Second, the issue offers nuanced analyses of the cultural, subjective, and affective dimensions of the revolution...