feminist periodicals and social movement identity
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Beins, Agatha
- Publish Year
- 2017
- Shelfmark
- VS 54 2017 - B
- Thesaurus
- feministische tijdschriften, feminisme, Verenigde Staten, 1970-1979, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Analysis of periodicals’ key role in U.S. feminism’s formation as a collective identity and set of political practices in the 1970s. The author examines the discourse of sisterhood, images of women of color, feminist publishing practices, and the production of feminist spaces to demonstrate how repetition shaped dominant themes of feminism’s collective identity. The focus is on five periodicals of that era: ‘Distaff’ (New Orleans, Louisiana): ‘Valley Women’s Center Newsletter’ (Northampton, Massachusetts): ‘Female Liberation Newsletter’ (Cambridge, Massachusetts): ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ (Iowa City, Iowa), and ‘L.A. Women’s Liberation Newsletter’, later published as ‘Sister’ (Los Angeles, California).