Sarah 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.

"…this collection will be especially valuable to undergraduate students who are looking to investigate queer and/or feminist histories and develop their own research … the editors have achieved a great feat in contributing a reflective volume that highlights and signals to the importance of fighting ongoing injustices, and yet enables the reader to step away with a greater sense of optimism towards the future." — Contemporary British History"This 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

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980sSarah Crook and Charlie JeffriesPart I: Student Politics and the Body Politic 1. "Aggies are Not Queers" A History of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, 1975–1985Michael S. Hevel and Charles J. Thompson2. "Specialty" Listening: Creating Space for Queer Programming on American College Radio in the Long 1980sKatherine Rye JewellPart 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 BritainJade Bentil4. "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 RibCharlotte Lydia RileyPart III: Families, Reproduction, and Health 5. Making Queer Families: Foster Family Activism in Los Angeles, 1977–1985Nora Kassner6. Thatcherism, the Black Women's Movement, and the Politics of Motherhood in BritainKate Turner7. A Framework for Choice: The Lasting Influence of 1980s Advocacy on Reproductive Rights in the United StatesTamar Holoshitz8. Opening DOORWAYS and Closing Others: Tactical Deployments of Respectability, Religion, and Race in the St. Louis Early-AIDS ResponseKatie BatzaPart IV: Grassroots Images, Speech, and Power 9. Polareyes: A Magazine by and for Black British Women Photographers as a Site of Resistance in London, 1987Taous R. Dahmani10. The Business of Feminism Endures: Four Decades of Spinsters Ink and Aunt Lute Books Publishing Lesbian-Feminist Books in the United StatesJulie R. Enszer11. Lesbians Talk: British Lesbian Politics and the Sex WarsFlora DunsterEpilogues Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern HistoriesSarah CrookCritically Reflecting (on) the 1980sCharlie JeffriesContributorsIndex

Sarah 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.

"…this collection will be especially valuable to undergraduate students who are looking to investigate queer and/or feminist histories and develop their own research … the editors have achieved a great feat in contributing a reflective volume that highlights and signals to the importance of fighting ongoing injustices, and yet enables the reader to step away with a greater sense of optimism towards the future." — Contemporary British History"This 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

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980sSarah Crook and Charlie JeffriesPart I: Student Politics and the Body Politic 1. "Aggies are Not Queers" A History of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, 1975–1985Michael S. Hevel and Charles J. Thompson2. "Specialty" Listening: Creating Space for Queer Programming on American College Radio in the Long 1980sKatherine Rye JewellPart 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 BritainJade Bentil4. "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 RibCharlotte Lydia RileyPart III: Families, Reproduction, and Health 5. Making Queer Families: Foster Family Activism in Los Angeles, 1977–1985Nora Kassner6. Thatcherism, the Black Women's Movement, and the Politics of Motherhood in BritainKate Turner7. A Framework for Choice: The Lasting Influence of 1980s Advocacy on Reproductive Rights in the United StatesTamar Holoshitz8. Opening DOORWAYS and Closing Others: Tactical Deployments of Respectability, Religion, and Race in the St. Louis Early-AIDS ResponseKatie BatzaPart IV: Grassroots Images, Speech, and Power 9. Polareyes: A Magazine by and for Black British Women Photographers as a Site of Resistance in London, 1987Taous R. Dahmani10. The Business of Feminism Endures: Four Decades of Spinsters Ink and Aunt Lute Books Publishing Lesbian-Feminist Books in the United StatesJulie R. Enszer11. Lesbians Talk: British Lesbian Politics and the Sex WarsFlora DunsterEpilogues Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern HistoriesSarah CrookCritically Reflecting (on) the 1980sCharlie JeffriesContributorsIndex

Sarah 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.

"…this collection will be especially valuable to undergraduate students who are looking to investigate queer and/or feminist histories and develop their own research … the editors have achieved a great feat in contributing a reflective volume that highlights and signals to the importance of fighting ongoing injustices, and yet enables the reader to step away with a greater sense of optimism towards the future." — Contemporary British History"This 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

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Thinking through and beyond the 1980sSarah Crook and Charlie JeffriesPart I: Student Politics and the Body Politic 1. "Aggies are Not Queers" A History of Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, 1975–1985Michael S. Hevel and Charles J. Thompson2. "Specialty" Listening: Creating Space for Queer Programming on American College Radio in the Long 1980sKatherine Rye JewellPart 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 BritainJade Bentil4. "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 RibCharlotte Lydia RileyPart III: Families, Reproduction, and Health 5. Making Queer Families: Foster Family Activism in Los Angeles, 1977–1985Nora Kassner6. Thatcherism, the Black Women's Movement, and the Politics of Motherhood in BritainKate Turner7. A Framework for Choice: The Lasting Influence of 1980s Advocacy on Reproductive Rights in the United StatesTamar Holoshitz8. Opening DOORWAYS and Closing Others: Tactical Deployments of Respectability, Religion, and Race in the St. Louis Early-AIDS ResponseKatie BatzaPart IV: Grassroots Images, Speech, and Power 9. Polareyes: A Magazine by and for Black British Women Photographers as a Site of Resistance in London, 1987Taous R. Dahmani10. The Business of Feminism Endures: Four Decades of Spinsters Ink and Aunt Lute Books Publishing Lesbian-Feminist Books in the United StatesJulie R. Enszer11. Lesbians Talk: British Lesbian Politics and the Sex WarsFlora DunsterEpilogues Looking Back, Thinking Forward: Grassroots Activism and Modern HistoriesSarah CrookCritically Reflecting (on) the 1980sCharlie JeffriesContributorsIndex