Women, Global Protest Movements, and Political Agency: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968 [Hardcover]

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 womens 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 womens historical involvement in 1968 in different parts of the world and the different ways in which womens 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 womens studies.

Introduction: 1968  the year that rocked whose world? [Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher]  PART I: Gender and Cultural Memory  1. Remembering 1968: Feminist Perspectives [Kristina Schulz]  2. Despite, or in Debt to 1968? Second-Wave Feminism and the Gendered History of Italys 1968 [Andrea Hajek]  3. Transnational Memories and Gender: Northern Irelands 1968 [Chris Reynolds]  PART II: Violence and/as Counterviolence  4. On Liberated Women in an Un-Liberated Society: Ula St?ckls The Cat Has Nine Lives (1968) [Christina Gerhardt]  5. Feminism and Violence against Women in Yugoslavia during State Socialism [Zs?fia L?r?nd]  6. Murder is a FeminilS+