ABSTRACT
This volume analyses and historicises the memory of 1968 (understood as a marker of an emerging will for social change around the turn of that decade, rather than as a particular calendar year), focusing on cultural memory of the powerful signifier '68' and women’s experience of revolutionary agency.
After an opening interrogation of the historical and contemporary significance of "1968" – why does it still matter? how and why is it remembered in the contexts of gender and geopolitics? and what implications does it have for broader feminist understandings of women and revolutionary agency? – the contributors explore women’s historical involvement in "1968" in different parts of the world and the different ways in which women’s experience as victims and perpetrators of violence are remembered and understood.
This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and women’s studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|50 pages
Gender and cultural memory
chapter 2|17 pages
Despite or in debt to 1968?
part II|48 pages
Violence and/as counterviolence
chapter 4|15 pages
On liberated women in an un-liberated society
chapter 6|17 pages
Murder is a (lesbian) feminist issue
part III|71 pages
Women as violent actors