Feminist Literacies, 1968-75

By Kathryn Thoms Flannery

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, ordinary women affiliated with the women's movement were responsible for a veritable explosion of periodicals, poetry, and manifestos, as well as performances designed to support "do-it-yourself" education and consciousness-raising. Kathryn Thoms Flannery discusses this outpouring and the group education, brainstorming, and creative activism it fostered as the manifestation of a feminist literacy quite separate from women's studies programs at universities or the large-scale political workings of second-wave feminism. Seeking to break down traditional barriers such as the dichotomies of writer/reader or student/teacher, these new works also forged polemical alternatives to the forms of argumentation traditionally used to silence women, creating a space for fresh voices. Feminist Literacies explores these truly radical feminist literary practices and pedagogies that flourished during a brief era of volatility and hope.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252029615
• ISBN13: 9780252029615
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"