Feeling Women's Liberation

Awards:   Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Studies) 2014
Author:   Victoria Hesford
Publisher:   Duke University Press
ISBN:  

9780822353768


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 June 2013
Format:   Hardback
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  • Commended for Lambda Literary Awards (Studies) 2014

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Author:   Victoria Hesford
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.621kg
ISBN:  

9780822353768


ISBN 10:   0822353768
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   05 June 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

"Acknowledgments vii Introduction. Around 1970: The Feminist-as-Lesbian and a Movement in the Making 1 1. From Lady Protestors to Urban Guerrillas: Media Representations of the Women's Liberation Movement in 1970 25 2. ""Goodbye to All That"": Killing Daddy's Girls and the Revolt against Proper Femininity 81 3. Becoming Woman Identified Woman: Sexuality, Family Feelings, and Imagining Women's Liberation 114 4. Fear of Flying: Kate Millett, the Difficulty of the New, and the Unmaking of the Feminist-as-Lesbian 155 5. Looking for Ghosts: Remembering Women's Liberation 206 Epilogue. The Politics of Memory and Feeling Historical 249 Notes 269 Bibliography 317 Index 331"

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Feeling Women's Liberation 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. --Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories


Feeling Women's Liberation 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. -Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons Feeling Women's Liberation 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. -Elizabeth Freeman, author of Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories 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. -Sara Ahmed, author of On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Everyday Life The author shines in her detailed and close readings of the material... Feeling Women's Liberation 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. -- Alison Dahl Crossley Gender and Society In Feeling Women's Liberation 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. -- Bridget Lockyer Women's History Review 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 Feeling Women's Liberation ... is highly instructive in demonstrating the 'interdependence between politics and emotion through the constitutive presence of rhetoric'. -- Victoria Browne Subjectivity 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. -- B. A. McGowan Choice


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Victoria Hesford is Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Department of Cultural Analysis and Theory at Stony Brook University. She is the coeditor of Feminist Time against Nation Time: Gender, Politics, and the Nation-State in an Age of Permanent War.

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