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OverviewThe 1980s was a period of political and social tumult in Britain and the United States. Facing resurgent conservative forces, feminist and queer activists organized in ways that not only resisted conservative hegemony but also helped to forge new communities, communications, and futures. Resist, Organize, Build casts new light on grassroots campaigns in Britain and the US, looking at feminist and queer work on university campuses, within anti-racist and anti-imperialist movements, in reframing the family, reproduction, and health, and in the establishment of new magazines, book series, and publishing houses. The collection brings together emerging and established scholars to position historical work on the two national contexts side by side, drawing out similarities and differences. Taking care to center historically marginalized voices, the collection gives students and scholars insight into and examples of the work of activist groups in a time that has many resonances with our own. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Sarah Crook , Charlie JeffriesPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438489582ISBN 10: 1438489587 Pages: 366 Publication Date: 02 February 2023 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of Contents"Acknowledgments Introduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980s Sarah Crook and Charlie Jeffries Part I: Student Politics and the Body Politic 1. ""Aggies are Not Queers"" A History of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, 1975–1985 Michael S. Hevel and Charles J. Thompson 2. ""Specialty"" Listening: Creating Space for Queer Programming on American College Radio in the Long 1980s Katherine Rye Jewell Part II: Anti-Racist, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Borders Action 3. ""We were fire-fighting against Thatcher and the system she was putting forward"": The Black Women's Movement and the Boundaries of Nationhood in Thatcher's Britain Jade Bentil 4. ""Spiritualists, ideologues, pragmatists, feminists, and women of all descriptions"": The British Women's Liberation Movement, the UN Decade for Women, and Feminist Transnationalism in Spare Rib Charlotte Lydia Riley Part III: Families, Reproduction, and Health 5. Making Queer Families: Foster Family Activism in Los Angeles, 1977–1985 Nora Kassner 6. Thatcherism, the Black Women's Movement, and the Politics of Motherhood in Britain Kate Turner 7. A Framework for Choice: The Lasting Influence of 1980s Advocacy on Reproductive Rights in the United States Tamar Holoshitz 8. Opening DOORWAYS and Closing Others: Tactical Deployments of Respectability, Religion, and Race in the St. Louis Early-AIDS Response Katie Batza Part IV: Grassroots Images, Speech, and Power 9. Polareyes: A Magazine by and for Black British Women Photographers as a Site of Resistance in London, 1987 Taous R. Dahmani 10. The Business of Feminism Endures: Four Decades of Spinsters Ink and Aunt Lute Books Publishing Lesbian-Feminist Books in the United States Julie R. Enszer 11. Lesbians Talk: British Lesbian Politics and the Sex Wars Flora Dunster Epilogues Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern Histories Sarah Crook Critically Reflecting (on) the 1980s Charlie Jeffries Contributors Index"ReviewsThis book presents new, original scholarship based on extensive archival research and oral history. Most of the individuals, groups, and publications that are its focus have not been previously studied. By comparing the US and Britain and examining both feminist and queer activism, which often developed in tandem, the volume contributes a great deal to historical knowledge of social movements in this time period. - Tamar W. Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty, and Feminist Activism Author InformationSarah Crook is Lecturer in Post–1800 European Social and Cultural History at Swansea University in Wales, United Kingdom. Charlie Jeffries is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birbeck, University of London in England, United Kingdom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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