{"product_id":"feeling-womens-liberation-paperback-softback-9780822353904","title":"Feeling Women's Liberation (Paperback \/ softback) 9780822353904","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFeeling Women's Liberation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eVictoria Hesford (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780822353904\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 June 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 4 illustrations\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 15.8 x 2.3 cm, 0.499 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFeeling Women's Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e is a major contribution to understanding second-wave feminism as both a historical event and an ongoing political project. With this engaging and necessary book, Victoria Hesford is working at the forefront of the critical reassessment of the history of the women's movement of the 1970s.\"-\u003cb\u003eRobyn Wiegman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eObject Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFeeling Women's Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e is a model of cultural studies: self-reflexive about its archive, theoretically sophisticated, and possessed of a compelling central case study, Kate Millett. Recovering forgotten-or, rather, repressed-archival materials, Victoria Hesford offers a brilliantly written genealogy of the politically charged figure of the lesbian feminist in popular and academic discourse from 1970 to the present.\"-\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Freeman\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eTime Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e\"In this book, Victoria Hesford offers us a history of feminism as a history of feeling. Attending to feminist pasts with an ear that is alive to detail, Hesford explores the surprising entanglements that make up the unfinished lives of feminism. Through readings of memories, films, and media texts, she explores not only how feminism is a movement but also how we are moved by feminism and how even the most anxious of figures-such as the feminist-as-lesbian-are animating sites of potential. This powerful and poetic text demonstrates how we can take better care of feminist memories.\"-\u003cb\u003eSara Ahmed\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Everyday Life\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“The author shines in her detailed and close readings of the material…. \u003ci\u003eFeeling Women’s Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e advances understandings of feeling, collective memory, and the persistence of the women’s movement…. Hesford’s intervention answers lingering questions regarding caricatures of feminists past and present.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Alison Dahl Crossley (Gender \u0026amp; Society) \u003cdiv\u003e“In \u003ci\u003eFeeling Women’s Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e Victoria Hesford takes a fresh approach….[The book] is an important and powerful contribution to the history of a complex movement, drawing much needed attention to the way that it was and is a product of feeling as much as of politics and propaganda.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Bridget Lockyer (Women's History Review) \u003cdiv\u003e“Hesford’s examinations of the interrelation between the movement’s self-representation and the representation by the mass media are extremely effective and illuminating. ... The attention to affect in \u003ci\u003eFeeling Women’s Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e ... is highly instructive in demonstrating the ‘interdependence between politics and emotion through the constitutive presence of rhetoric’.”\u003c\/div\u003e - Victoria Browne (Subjectivity) \u003cdiv\u003e“Hesford has written a tour de force that should be read by anyone interested in the history of the women's movement, feminist theory, or queer theory…Essential.”\u003c\/div\u003e - B. A. McGowan (Choice) \u003cdiv\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFeeling Women’s Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to women’s, gender, and sexuality studies collections. The book is suitable for knowledgeable researchers as well as undergraduate students.\"\u003c\/div\u003e - Shana Higgins (Feminist Collections)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe term \u003ci\u003ewomen's liberation\u003c\/i\u003e remains charged and divisive decades after it first entered political and cultural discourse around 1970. In \u003ci\u003eFeeling Women's Liberation\u003c\/i\u003e, Victoria Hesford mines the archive of that highly contested era to reassess how it has been represented and remembered. Hesford refocuses debates about the movement’s history and influence. Rather than interpreting women's liberation in terms of success or failure, she approaches the movement as a range of rhetorical strategies that were used to persuade and enact a new political constituency and, ultimately, to bring a new world into being. Hesford focuses on rhetoric, tracking the production and deployment of particular phrases and figures in both the mainstream press and movement writings, including the work of Kate Millett. She charts the emergence of the feminist-as-lesbian as a persistent \"image-memory\" of women's liberation, and she demonstrates how the trope has obscured the complexity of the women's movement and its lasting impact on feminism.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Around 1970: The Feminist-as-Lesbian and a Movement in the Making 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. From Lady Protestors to Urban Guerrillas: Media Representations of the Women's Liberation Movement in 1970 25\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"\u003cbr\u003eGoodbye to All That\"\u003cbr\u003e: Killing Daddy's Girls and the Revolt against Proper Femininity 81\u003cbr\u003e 3. Becoming Woman Identified Woman: Sexuality, Family Feelings, and Imagining Women's Liberation 114\u003cbr\u003e 4. Fear of \u003ci\u003eFlying\u003c\/i\u003e: Kate Millett, the Difficulty of the New, and the Unmaking of the Feminist-as-Lesbian 155\u003cbr\u003e 5. Looking for Ghosts: Remembering Women's Liberation 206\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. The Politics of Memory and Feeling Historical 249\u003cbr\u003e Notes 269\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 317\u003cbr\u003e Index 331\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press Books","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52735145148696,"sku":"9780822353904","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/feeling-womens-liberation-paperback-softback-9780822353904","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}