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Feminist Literacies, 1968-75
Kathryn Thoms Flannery
Cloth978-0-252-02961-5
$35.00
| Pub Date: | 2005 |
| Pages: | 280 pages |
| Dimensions: | 6 x 9 in. |
| Illustrations: | 16 Line Drawings |
The role of creativity in feminism's push beyond the academy
Feminist Literacies is a history of the truly radical feminist literary practices and pedagogies that flourished during a brief era of volatility and hope.
In 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 from the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism. Seeking to break down traditional barriers such as the writer/reader or student/teacher dichotomies, 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 the reasons and mechanisms underlying lay pedagogies and literacies that excited a diverse audience of women and served as a vital part of the liberation movement--and why such an effort was ultimately not sustained.
Subjects:
Women's Studies / Radical Studies / Communications & Journalism / Education / Literature, American
