Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
Laura Levine Frader ◽  
Ian Merkel ◽  
Jessica Lynne Pearson
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
French West Africa ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
French Feminism

Lisa Greenwald, Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women’s Liberation Movement (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).Eric T. Jennings, Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018).Kathleen Keller, Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-144
Author(s):  
Laura Levine Frader ◽  
Ian Merkel ◽  
Jessica Lynne Pearson ◽  
Caroline Séquin
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
French Caribbean ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
French West Africa ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
French Feminism

Lisa Greenwald, Daughters of 1968: Redefining French Feminism and the Women's Liberation Movement (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018). Eric T. Jennings, Escape from Vichy: The Refugee Exodus to the French Caribbean (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). Kathleen Keller, Colonial Suspects: Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2018).

‘Look at Me’, I’m femininity: The female persona in 1970s musical theatre

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Lampe
Keyword(s):  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Female Representation ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Betty Friedan ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Female Image

As the Women’s Liberation Movement developed in the 1970s, women challenged society’s limited female representation as either the Madonna or the whore. Musicals in the 1970s, including Grease (1972), Chicago (1975) and Evita (1979), complicated the female image through the juxtaposition of feminine stereotypes in the heroine’s persona. With each of the shows centralizing the plot around analysing the contradictory feminine image, the women perform in both public and private settings, along with other characters critiquing their personas. From feminist protesters to the writings of Simone de Beauvoir and Betty Friedan, Sandy, Roxie and Eva reflect the requests of contemporary women to display their gender as something beyond the perceived dichotomy of Madonna or whore in their music performances.

scholarly journals 'Every generation has to make its own women's movement'

Soundings ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 77 (77) ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Sheila Rowbotham ◽  
Jo Littler
Keyword(s):  
Women's Movement ◽  
Women's Liberation ◽  
Women's Liberation Movement ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
Liberation Movement ◽  
Women’S Liberation ◽  
Women’S Liberation Movement

In this interview Sheila Rowbotham talks to Jo Littler about her involvement in feminism and politics over several decades. This ranges across her role in the Women's Liberation Movement, left activism, historical scholarship, work with in the Greater London Council (GLC), involvement in the international homeworking movement and her secret life as a poet.

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