Women's Liberation Movement

Kristina Schulz, PhD, is Professor for Contemporary History at the University of Neuchâtel. She is a specialist of Western feminist history in comparative perspective and is the author of a book on the French and German WLM: ‘Der lange Atem der Provokation.’ Die Frauenbewegung in der Bundesrepublik und in Frankreich (1968-1976). Together with Leena Schmitter and Sarah Kiani she published a source and archive guide about the Swiss Women’s Liberation Movement in 2014. With Magda Kaspar she created an audio archive and interactive website about the feminist movement in Switzerland from the 1970s to the present (Frauenbewegung 2.0).

“This book is rich in content and thoroughly researched. Several chapters bring relatively un-known movement dynamics to an English-speaking audience for the first time. These contributions provide important empirical evidence of what the diversity of the many Western European Women’s Liberation Movements actually stand for, what they do, and how they develop.” · Susanne Zwingel, Florida International University“Both exciting and very well-written, this book offers original empirical work on a range of core issues related to the Women’s Liberation Movements. It is based on multiple methods of case studies, and brings forward refreshing empirical material and methodological reflections. There are so many myths about feminism and WLM that claims and descriptions based on solid research, such as those offered by this collection, are essential.” · Beatrice Halsaa, University of Oslo

• Introduction: A Success without Impact? Case Studies from the Women's Liberation Movement's in EuropeKristina SchulzPART I: THE WOMEN'S LIBERATION MOVEMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGEIntroductory RemarksBrigitte StuderChapter 1. Women’s Liberation Movement and Professional Equality: The Swiss CaseSarah KianiChapter 2. How The Women’s Movement Changed Academia: A Comparison of Germany and the United StatesStefanie EhmsenChapter 3. Female Bodies — Fetal Subjects? New Reproductive Technologies, Feminist Claims and Political Change in Switzerland in the 1970/80sLeena SchmitterPART II: SHARING WORDSIntroductory RemarksSilja BehreChapter 4. Momone and the Bonnes Femmes; or Beauvoir and the MLFSylvie ChaperonChapter 5. Women and Words: Literary Practices as Collective Self-DiscoveryKristina SchulzChapter 6. Lesbian Vertigo: Living the Women’s Liberation Movement on the Edge of EuropeAna MartinsChapter 7. Sexy Stories and Postfeminist Empowerment: From ‘Häutungen’ to ‘Wetlands’Christa Binswanger and Kathy DavisPART III: IDENTITIES AT STAKE: GENDER, RACE, CLASSIntroductory RemarksThierry Delessert and Lucy DelapChapter 8. Lesbianism as Political Construction, in the French Feminist ContextChristine BardChapter 9. Gender and Class in the Italian Women’s MovementMarica Tolomelli and Anna FrisoneChapter 10. “Sisterhood is Plain Sailing?” Multi-Racial Feminist Collectives in 1980s BritainNatalie ThomlinsonChapter 11. Uneasy Solidarity: The British Men’s Movement and FeminismLucy DelapPART IV: BEYOND NATIONAL BOUNDARIESIntroductory RemarksLucy Delap and Thierry DelessertChapter 12. Echoes of Ourselves? – Feminisms between East and West in the Leningrad Almanac Woman and RussiaKirsten HartingChapter 13. Cyberfeminism on the German-Speaking Net: Contestation beyond Binary CodeJohanna NiesytoPART V: THINKING ABOUT IMPACT AND CHANGE: CONCEPTS AND RESEARCH STRATEGIESIntroductory RemarksMagda KasparChapter 14. The Myth and the Archives: Some Reflections on Swedish Feminism in the 1970sElisabeth ElganChapter 15. After the Protest: Biographical Consequences of Movement Activism in an Oral History of Women’s Liberation in BritainMargaretta JollyChapter 16. Writing the History of Feminism (Old and New). Impacts and ImpatienceKaren OffenPostscriptKristina SchulzIndex