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Literary Criticism

Rebel Writers The Accidental Feminists

Shelagh Delaney • Edna O'Brien • Lynne Reid Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster Celia Brayfield. Celia Brayfield REBEL WRITERS RD The Accidental Feminists BLOOMSBURY REBEL WRITERS The Accidental ...

Author: Celia Brayfield

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781448218202

Category: Literary Criticism

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'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' Vice In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be. Bypassing the London cultural elite, their work reached audiences of millions around the world, paved the way for profound social changes and laid the foundations of second-wave feminism. After Delaney came Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside and Margaret Forster; an extraordinarily disparate group who were united in their determination to shake the traditional concepts of womanhood in novels, films, television, essays and journalism. They were as angry as the Angry Young Men, but were also more constructive and proposed new ways to live and love in the future. They did not intend to become a literary movement but they did, inspiring other writers to follow. Not since the Brontës have a group of young women been so determined to tell the truth about what it is like to be a girl. In this biographical study, the acclaimed author, Celia Brayfield, tells their story for the first time.
2021-07-22 By Celia Brayfield
History

Accidental Feminism

Still, the egalitarian outcomes in these firms might bear the promise of potentially feminist futures. It is this inclusion of unintended feminism—or a thing that looks like feminism produced by structural conditions rather than ...

Author: Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691213606

Category: History

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Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry. Less than 10 percent of the country’s lawyers are female, but women in the most prestigious firms are significantly represented both at entry and partnership. Elite workspaces are notorious for being unfriendly to new actors, so what allows for aberration in certain workspaces? Drawing from observations and interviews with more than 130 elite professionals, Accidental Feminism examines how a range of underlying mechanisms—gendered socialization and essentialism, family structures and dynamics, and firm and regulatory histories—afford certain professionals egalitarian outcomes that are not available to their local and global peers. Juxtaposing findings on the legal profession with those on elite consulting firms, Swethaa Ballakrishnen reveals that parity arises not from a commitment to create feminist organizations, but from structural factors that incidentally come together to do gender differently. Simultaneously, their research offers notes of caution: while conditional convergence may create equality in ways that more targeted endeavors fail to achieve, “accidental” developments are hard to replicate, and are, in this case, buttressed by embedded inequalities. Ballakrishnen examines whether gender parity produced without institutional sanction should still be considered feminist. In offering new ways to think about equality movements and outcomes, Accidental Feminism forces readers to critically consider the work of intention in progress narratives.
2021-01-12 By Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen
Biography & Autobiography

The Accidental Feminist

As columnist Katha Pollitt observed, “Feminism is a social justice movement.” From 1985 until her death, Taylor fought consciously— not accidentally—for social justice. I believe her final role in life was influenced by the movies with ...

Author: M. G. Lord

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN: 9780802778642

Category: Biography & Autobiography

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Movie stars establish themselves as brands--and Taylor's brand , in its most memorable outings, has repeatedly introduced a broad audience to feminist ideas. In her breakout film, "National Velvet" (1944), Taylor's character challenges gender discrimination,: Forbidden as a girl to ride her beloved horse in an important race, she poses as a male jockey. Her next milestone, "A Place in the Sun" (1951), can be seen as an abortion rights movie--a cautionary tale from a time before women had ready access to birth control. In "Butterfield 8" (1960), for which she won an Oscar, Taylor isn't censured because she's a prostitute, but because she chooses the men: she controls her sexuality, a core tenet of the third-wave feminism that emerged in the 1990s. Even "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966) depicts the anguish that befalls a woman when the only way she can express herself is through her husband's stalled career and children. The legendary actress has lived her life defiantly in public--undermining post-war reactionary sex roles, helping directors thwart the Hollywood Production Code, which censored film content between 1934 and 1967. Defying death threats she spearheaded fundraising for AIDS research in the first years of the epidemic, and has championed the rights of people to love whom they love, regardless of gender. Yet her powerful feminist impact has been hidden in plain sight. Drawing on unpublished letters and scripts as well as interviews with Kate Burton, Gore Vidal, Austin Pendleton, Kevin McCarthy, Liz Smith, and others, The Accidental Feminist will surprise Taylor and film fans with its originality and will add a startling dimension to the star's enduring mystique.
2012-02-12 By M. G. Lord
Biography & Autobiography

The Accidental Feminist

The discrimination, in both cases, being mostly an insurance against collateral damage: “Journalist fatally hurt in accident,” against “WOMAN PHOTOGRAPHER TRAMPLED TO DEATH BY MAD STEER!” As the man said, we cannot have a dead woman.

Author: Toby Molenaar

Publisher: Skyhorse

ISBN: 9781628724110

Category: Biography & Autobiography

Page: 384

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This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. After the war, she finds love in Switzerland, marries, and starts a family. Her perfect life soon unravels however, when she meets the irresistible writer Fred Grunfeld, a foreign correspondent for Time, Life, and other magazines, and the new couple settles in Mallorca. Fred takes her along on his travels covering the world for various publications, from Alaska to Argentina, India, and China. Reinventing herself yet again, Toby learns her new trade as a photographer and becomes an eminent photojournalist. When Husband Number Two leaves and her life in Mallorca evaporates, she is ready to carry on, taking on her own international assignments—until Husband Number Three enters the picture, in France, and a new child is born. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story. Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
2014-05-06 By Toby Molenaar
History

Women s Activism and Second Wave Feminism

49 State policies and “classical republican” feminists, alongside those “accidental feminists” (who have instrumentalized feminist rhetoric), have designated the headscarf and burqa as the sole visible signs of oppression, ...

Author: Barbara Molony

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

ISBN: 9781474250528

Category: History

Page: 344

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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism situates late 20th-century feminisms within a global framework of women's activism. Its chapters, written by leading international scholars, demonstrate how issues of heterogeneity, transnationalism, and intersectionality have transformed understandings of historical feminism. It is no longer possible to imagine that feminism has ever fostered an unproblematic sisterhood among women blind to race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, nationality and citizenship status. The chapters in this collection modify the "wave" metaphor in some cases and in others re-periodize it. By studying individual movements, they collectively address several themes that advance our understandings of the history of feminism, such as the rejection of "hegemonic" feminism by marginalized feminist groups, transnational linkages among women's organizations, transnational flows of ideas and transnational migration. By analyzing practical activism, the chapters in this volume produce new ways of theorizing feminism and new historical perspectives about the activist locations from which feminist politics emerged. Including histories of feminisms in the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, France, Russia, Japan, Korea, Poland and Chile, Women's Activism and "Second Wave" Feminism provides a truly global re-appraisal of women's movements in the late 20th century.
2017-02-09 By Barbara Molony
Literary Collections

Accidental Feminists

We didn’t expect to. Or intend to. We weren’t brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story.

Author: Jane Caro

Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing

ISBN: 9780522872842

Category: Literary Collections

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Women over fifty-five are of the generation that changed everything. We didn't expect to. Or intend to. We weren't brought up much differently from the women who came before us, and we rarely identified as feminists, although almost all of us do now. Accidental Feminists is our story. It explores how the world we lived in—with the pill and a regular pay cheque—transformed us and how, almost in spite of ourselves, we revolutionised the world. It is a celebration of grit, adaptability, energy and persistence. It is also a plea for future generations to keep agitating for a better, fairer world.
2019-02-05 By Jane Caro
Law

Negotiating the Power of NGOs

Additionally, the South African women's movement rejected Western feminism, as did other women's movements in developing countries; this is because Western feminist ... Patricia Van Der Spuy and Lindsay Clowes, 'Accidental feminists?

Author: Reem Wael

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108475136

Category: Law

Page: 380

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Explores the role of NGOs as mediators in crucial litigation cases on women's rights in South Africa.
2019-04-30 By Reem Wael
Social Science

The Women Who Reconstructed American Jewish Education 1910 1965

Were these women feminists? ... But if feminist means being strong and independent, then they were feminists. Their stories are full of ... Although many of their beneficiaries were women, these women were accidental feminists at best.

Author: Carol K. Ingall

Publisher: UPNE

ISBN: 9781584659099

Category: Social Science

Page: 264

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The first volume to examine the contributions of women who brought the forces of American progressivism and Jewish nationalism to formal and informal Jewish education
2010-07-31 By Carol K. Ingall
Psychology

Women Sex and Madness

The body in the therapy room Feminist theories of the body have a long legacy of helping people to think more deeply and ... The blind spot around the fleshy, material, corporeal body does not seem accidental; feminists have long ...

Author: Breanne Fahs

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9780429874963

Category: Psychology

Page: 220

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Covering a wide variety of subjects and points of inquiry on women's sexuality, from genital anxieties about pubic hair to constructions of the body in the therapy room, this book offers a ground-breaking examination of women, sex, and madness, drawing from psychology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies. Breanne Fahs argues that women’s sexuality embodies a permanent state of tension between cultural impulses of destruction and selfishness contrasted with the fundamental possibilities of subversiveness and joy. Emphasizing cultural, social, and personal narratives about sexuality, Fahs asks readers to imagine sex, bodies, and madness as intertwined, and to see these narratives as fluid, contested, and changing. With topics as diverse as anarchist visions of sexual freedom, sexualized emotion work, lesbian haunted houses, and the insidious workings of capitalism, Fahs conceptualizes sexuality as a force of regressive moral panics and profound inequalities—deployed in both blatant and more subtle ways onto the body—while also finding hope and resistance in the possibilities of sexuality. By integrating clinical case studies, cultural studies, qualitative interviews, and original essays, Fahs offers a provocative new vision for sexuality that fuses together social anxieties and cultural madness through a critical feminist psychological approach. Fahs provides an original and accessible volume for students and academics in psychology, gender and sexuality studies, and cultural studies.
2019-07-22 By Breanne Fahs
Social Science

Feminists Read Habermas RLE Feminist Theory

There is already an interesting debate among feminists on this issue. The literature is vast; ... It is surely not accidental that feminists have begun to articulate and fight for these sorts of reforms. Clearly, such efforts must ...

Author: Johanna Meehan,

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 9781136204289

Category: Social Science

Page: 288

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This important new collection considers Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory from a variety of feminist vantage points. Habermas's theory represents one of the most persuasive current formulations of moral and political notions of subjectivity and normativity. Feminist scholars have been drawn to his work because it reflects a tradition of emancipatory political thinking rooted in the Enlightenment and engages with the normative aims of emancipatory social movements. The essays in Feminists Read Habermas analyze various aspects of Habermas's theory, ranging from his moral theory to political issues of identity and participation. While the contributors hold widely different political and philosophical views, they share a conviction of the potential significance of Habermas's work for feminist reflections on power, norms and subjectivity.
2013-05-20 By Johanna Meehan,

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