Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her recent book publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009) and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015).Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women’s movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of ‘Sisters in Arms?’ – Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).

"This volume offers a broad, nuanced, and multidirectional rethinking of the legacy of 1968 through the lens of gender and the ways in which an array of militant feminist practices effect political change. The cross-referencing of chapters and the engagement of individual contributors with each other’s arguments succeeds in creating a resonant network of correspondences, overlaps, provocations, contradictions, and tensions."Karin Bauer, McGill University

• Introduction: 1968 – the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory 1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz] 2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italy’s 1968 [Andrea Hajek] 3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Ireland’s 1968 [Chris Reynolds] PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence 4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt] 5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zsófia Lóránd] 6. Murder is a Feminist Issue: The Case of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen [Clare Bielby] PART III: Women as Violent Actors 7. Coherence in Contradiction: The Spectacle of the Female Terrorist [Dominique Grisard] 8. The Japanese Left and the ‘Muslim World’ [Claudia Derichs] 9. ‘The Mood was an Explosion of Freedom’: The 1968 Movement and the Participation of Women Fighters during the Lebanese Civil War [Jennifer Philippa Eggert] 10. Women of Jihad [Daniela Pisoiu]

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her recent book publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009) and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015).Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women’s movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of ‘Sisters in Arms?’ – Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).

"This volume offers a broad, nuanced, and multidirectional rethinking of the legacy of 1968 through the lens of gender and the ways in which an array of militant feminist practices effect political change. The cross-referencing of chapters and the engagement of individual contributors with each other’s arguments succeeds in creating a resonant network of correspondences, overlaps, provocations, contradictions, and tensions."Karin Bauer, McGill University

• Introduction: 1968 – the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory 1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz] 2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italy’s 1968 [Andrea Hajek] 3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Ireland’s 1968 [Chris Reynolds] PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence 4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt] 5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zsófia Lóránd] 6. Murder is a Feminist Issue: The Case of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen [Clare Bielby] PART III: Women as Violent Actors 7. Coherence in Contradiction: The Spectacle of the Female Terrorist [Dominique Grisard] 8. The Japanese Left and the ‘Muslim World’ [Claudia Derichs] 9. ‘The Mood was an Explosion of Freedom’: The 1968 Movement and the Participation of Women Fighters during the Lebanese Civil War [Jennifer Philippa Eggert] 10. Women of Jihad [Daniela Pisoiu]

Sarah Colvin is the Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge, UK. Her recent book publications include Ulrike Meinhof and West German Terrorism (2009), Women and Death: Warlike Women in the German Literary and Cultural Imagination (co-editor, 2009) and The Routledge Handbook of German Politics and Culture (editor; Routledge 2015).Katharina Karcher is Lecturer in German Cultural Studies at the University of Bristol, UK. Her research interests include feminist theory, European women’s movements, and the history of political protest, extremism and violence in the Federal Republic of Germany. She is the author of ‘Sisters in Arms?’ – Militant Feminisms in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1968 (2017).

"This volume offers a broad, nuanced, and multidirectional rethinking of the legacy of 1968 through the lens of gender and the ways in which an array of militant feminist practices effect political change. The cross-referencing of chapters and the engagement of individual contributors with each other’s arguments succeeds in creating a resonant network of correspondences, overlaps, provocations, contradictions, and tensions."Karin Bauer, McGill University

• Introduction: 1968 – the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory 1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz] 2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italy’s 1968 [Andrea Hajek] 3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Ireland’s 1968 [Chris Reynolds] PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence 4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula Stöckl’s The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt] 5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zsófia Lóránd] 6. Murder is a Feminist Issue: The Case of Marion Ihns and Judy Andersen [Clare Bielby] PART III: Women as Violent Actors 7. Coherence in Contradiction: The Spectacle of the Female Terrorist [Dominique Grisard] 8. The Japanese Left and the ‘Muslim World’ [Claudia Derichs] 9. ‘The Mood was an Explosion of Freedom’: The 1968 Movement and the Participation of Women Fighters during the Lebanese Civil War [Jennifer Philippa Eggert] 10. Women of Jihad [Daniela Pisoiu]