Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

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Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge, UK) Katharina Karcher (University of Bristol, UK)

Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency

Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge, UK), Katharina Karcher (University of Bristol, UK)

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Routledge
26 July 2018

Gender studies: women; Demonstrations & protest movements; Warfare & defence

Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics

"This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women’s experience of revolutionary agency.

After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of ""1968"" – why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? – the contributors explore women’s historical involvement in ""1968"" in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women’s experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women’s studies."

Edited by: Sarah Colvin (University of Cambridge UK), Katharina Karcher (University of Bristol, UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 430g
ISBN: 9780815384724
ISBN 10: 0815384726
Series: Routledge Studies in Gender and Global Politics
Pages: 196
Publication Date: 26 July 2018
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: 1968 – the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory 1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz] 2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italy’s 1968 [Andrea Hajek] 3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Ireland’s 1968 [Chris Reynolds] PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence 4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt] 5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zsófia Lóránd] 6. Murder is a Feminist Issue: The Case of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen [Clare Bielby] PART III: Women as Violent Actors 7. Coherence in Contradiction: The Spectacle of the Female Terrorist [Dominique Grisard] 8. The Japanese Left and the ‘Muslim World’ [Claudia Derichs] 9. ‘The Mood was an Explosion of Freedom’: The 1968 Movement and the Participation of Women Fighters during the Lebanese Civil War [Jennifer Philippa Eggert] 10. Women of Jihad [Daniela Pisoiu]

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her recent book publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009) and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015). Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women’s movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of ‘Sisters in Arms?’ – Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).

Reviews for Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

This volume offers a broad, nuanced, and multidirectional rethinking of the legacy of 1968 through the lens of gender and the ways in which an array of militant feminist practices effect political change. The cross-referencing of chapters and the engagement of individual contributors with each other's arguments succeeds in creating a resonant network of correspondences, overlaps, provocations, contradictions, and tensions. Karin Bauer, McGill University