‘Yours in Struggle’: Bad Feelings and Revolutionary Politics in <i>Spare Rib</i>

Waters, Melanie

doi:10.1080/09574042.2017.1301131

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“…12 'Bad feelings' have been claimed by Melanie Waters to act as a 'magnet' around which women's liberation's political discourse developed in Spare Rib, the feminist magazine; here, there was a 'virulent discourse of feeling. 13 'Affect', she argues, 'is the current that animates and electrifies the complex web of personal, social and political identifications that spark between women in, through and beyond the pages of the magazine.' 14 The webs of the personal, social and political were integral to the movement: as Lynne Segal asserted, 'feminists always emphasised the importance of the personal and the subjective, the need for a total politics.'…”

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The women’s liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968–1985

Crook

2018

Women's History Review

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The women’s liberation movement was the impetus for the founding of new institutions of psychological and mental health care for women in the late 1970s and 1980s. This article draws upon the archive of one such site, based in Islington, North London, to explore the ways that members of the movement interacted with local politics and were attentive to racial and economic oppression. It demonstrates that consciousness-raising groups and feminist magazines made women’s distress visible and that this visibility led to the development of feminist critiques of mainstream psychiatric care. The critiques of mainstream provision laid the ground for grassroots interventions into women’s mental healthcare in the community.

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The women’s liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968–1985

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2018

Women's History Review

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‘A New Kind of Trade’: Advertising Feminism in Spare Rib

Bazin

2017

Re-Reading Spare Rib

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The Feminist Art of Self-Education

Horne¹

2019

Women: A Cultural Review

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Sociologist Elizabeth Long has charted the emergence of women's reading groups in nineteenth-century America. 'The women who founded literary clubs ', Long (2004, 337) tells us, 'were aflame with the then revolutionary desire for education and self-development, which they called "self-culture".' Comparable aspirations continued to fuel a drive amongst women to organise together within reading and publishing groups, usually outside of official institutions, well into the twentieth century. This 'revolutionary desire' for self-education has also been evident in the UK women's art and art history movement, although it has not been addressed in thorough detail. This article therefore seeks to situate an overlooked history of artistic reading and publishing communities in relation to an established body of theory in literary and cultural studies. These theoretical materials will illuminate the importance that reading and self-education (either in person or as part of a periodical network) had in establishing solidarity, and generating debate, within a flourishing art and art history movement.The second half of this article focuses on a specific case study. FAN: Feminist Art News (1980-93) was an independent, grassroots publication that grew out of the Women Artists' Newsletter in London. Temporary editorial collectives published themed issues on a quarterly basis. This article contends that it is no coincidence the subject of art education formed the focus of the periodical's first issue, as well as a subsequent issue four years later. This indicates the significance of a reflexive auto-didacticism to second-wave feminism, as well as gesturing towards the long history of 'education and self-improvement' that has fuelled women's reading and study groups since the nineteenth century.

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‘Yours in Struggle’: Bad Feelings and Revolutionary Politics in Spare Rib

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

The women’s liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968–1985

The women’s liberation movement, activism and therapy at the grassroots, 1968–1985

‘A New Kind of Trade’: Advertising Feminism in Spare Rib

The Feminist Art of Self-Education

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