Sarah Colvin, Katharina Karcher

"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 [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher] PART I: On The (Gendered) Political Legitimacy of Violence 1. On the Legitimacy of Violence as a Political Act: Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Ulrike Meinhof and Bernadine Dohrn [Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey] 2. ‘Deeds Not Words!’ A Comparative Analysis of Feminist Militancy in Pre- and Post-1968 Europe [Katharina Karcher] 3. ‘But What about our Fury?’ Political Violence as Feminist Practice [Patricia Melzer] PART II: Creative Resistance 4. 1968, Take Two: The Militancy of Nina Simone [Charity Scribner] 5. Women, Words and Images, 1968: Textual/Sexual Politics in Helke Sander’s The Subjective Factor [Mererid Puw Davies] 6. Aesthetic Motions of Resistance in Feminist Creative Work [Carrie Smith] PART III: The Contradictions and Limits of Emancipatory Violence 7. Aggression and Peaceability: Masculine Drives and Feminist Visions in the Writings of Alexander Mitscherlich and Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen [Barbara Becker-Cantarino] 8. Serious Harm to Bodies: Contradictions of Anti-Masculinist Violence in the 1970s [Julian Bourg] 9. Anti, Anti, Anti! Counterviolence and Anti-Sexism in Hamburg’s Autonomous Rote Flora [Ali Jones]