The Trouble and Strife Reader
Author(s): Deborah Cameron
From 1983 to 2002, Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine was a distinctive voice in British feminism. It was the longest-surviving completely independent feminist periodical published in this period and it combined the intellectual depth of an academic journal with the accessibility, topicality and visual appeal of commercial feminst magazines such as Everywoman and Spare Rib. Featuring articles by internationally prominent feminists including Julie Bindel, Deborah Cameron, Beatrix Campbell, Patricia Duncker, Liz Kelly and Diana Leonard, it represented a particular current in feminism, radical rather than liberal, materialist but not marxist, anti-essentialist but not postmodernist. It regularly challenged orthodoxies on controversial issues such as ritual abuse or the sexual politics of religious fundamentalism. This is a collection of the best and most enduring articles published in the magazine during its 20-year life. It offers a unique historical record of an important strand of radical feminist debate, enabling old readers to revisit it and new readers to discover it.
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A collection of seminal but hard-to-find articles from the heart of the radical feminist debate of the 1980s and 90s Debbie Cameron is the internationally respected author of ten influential books on women and language The contributors include many leading British feminist voices The book covers a wide range of controversial topics from feminism and AIDS to religious fundamentalism
'Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged and above all provoked'. Beatrix Campbell, Author and Journalist
Deborah Cameron teaches linguistics and women's studies at Oxford University, where she is Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication. Joan Scanlon taught women's studies at the Open University, and was Dean of Academic Affairs at London Contemporary Dance School. Both have been active in a range of feminist campaigns, and both served for ten years on Trouble and Strife's editorial collective.
Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Debbie Cameron & Joan Scanlon. Manifestos: Editorial statement (1983), Editorial statement (1993). Controversies: Thicker than Water: Mothering and Childcare (1985) Ruth Wallsgrove; The Demand that Time Forgot (1992) Dena Attar; Baby Talk (1992) Diana Leonard; Mothers' Union? (1992) Christine Delphy; Weasel Words (1996) Liz Kelly; All in a Day's Work? (1997) Celia Jenkins & Ruth Swirsky; Unspeakable Acts (1991) Liz Kelly; The Portable Cage (1990) Dena Attar; Difference is not all that Counts (1999) Purna Sen. Sexuality: Sex and Danger: Feminism and AIDS (1987) Sara Scott; Queer Straits (1993) Julia Parnaby; From Sexual Politics to Body Politics (1994) Susanne Kappeler; Straight Talking (1995) Stevi Jackson. Theory: The Liberal Organ (1984) Debbie Cameron & Liz Frazer; The Amazing Deconstructing Woman (1992) Stevi Jackson; Back to Nature (1997) Debbie Cameron. History: Mothers of Invention (1985) Rachel Hasted; 'You're a Dyke, Angela!' (1987) Rosemary Auchmuty; Storming the Wimpy Bars (1984) Sara Scott interviews Lilian Mohin; Taking on the Dinosaurs (1997) Liz Kelly interviews Monica McWilliams; Dispatches from the Front Line (1998) Sarah Maguire. Culture: 12 steps to heaven (1989) Cath Jackson; Men of Tin (1991) Sigrid Rausing; Bad Apple (1994) Joan Scanlon & Julia Swindells; Ignorance is Bliss When You're Just Seventeen (1996) Stevi Jackson; Housewives' Choice (2001) Delilah Campbell; It's Life, Jim... But Not As We Know It (2001) Carol Morley. Notes on Contributors; Index
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- : Bloomsbury Academic
- : Bloomsbury Academic
- : 01 November 2009
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Deborah Cameron
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 305.42
- : 272
- : illustrations
