Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation

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Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne (eds)

What was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully rebellious activism. And how they continue this activism today with determined grittiness. Here are women – all over 70 years of age – still railing against the patriarchal systemic oppression of women, still fighting back. “Don’t Call Me Sweetie,” “Never Waste a Good Crisis” and “Still Here, Still Clear and Still Lesbian” is some of what they want us to know.

The contributors to Not Dead Yet have created new analyses with new language and new kinds of organisations always aware of the ways in which the system is stacked against us, particularly against radical feminists. But we persist. We share the revolutionary zest we have carried with us over many decades. There is history, there is subversion and there are many extraordinary acts of courage. The language is full of irony and wit – as well as deadly serious.

The Women’s Liberation Movement has had a profound effect on the lives of millions of women and in turn those women have changed our world. But the struggle continues. May these riveting tales by the foremothers of the movement inspire young women readers. #NotDeadYet

6 JULY 2021 | ISBN 9781925950328 | Paperback | 233 x 150 mm | 464 pages

Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne (eds)

What was it like to participate in the Women’s Liberation Movement? What made millions of women step forward from the 1960s onwards and join it in different ways? Many of the 56 women in this book were there. They describe how they have contributed in multitudinous ways across politics, the arts, health, education, environmentalism, economics and science and created wonderfully rebellious activism. And how they continue this activism today with determined grittiness. Here are women – all over 70 years of age – still railing against the patriarchal systemic oppression of women, still fighting back. “Don’t Call Me Sweetie,” “Never Waste a Good Crisis” and “Still Here, Still Clear and Still Lesbian” is some of what they want us to know.

The contributors to Not Dead Yet have created new analyses with new language and new kinds of organisations always aware of the ways in which the system is stacked against us, particularly against radical feminists. But we persist. We share the revolutionary zest we have carried with us over many decades. There is history, there is subversion and there are many extraordinary acts of courage. The language is full of irony and wit – as well as deadly serious.

The Women’s Liberation Movement has had a profound effect on the lives of millions of women and in turn those women have changed our world. But the struggle continues. May these riveting tales by the foremothers of the movement inspire young women readers. #NotDeadYet

6 JULY 2021 | ISBN 9781925950328 | Paperback | 233 x 150 mm | 464 pages

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Every single Women’s and Gender Studies program should assign this work immediately, if not sooner.

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Table of Contents

Sisterhood Is Still Powerful: Maintaining the Rage • Susan Hawthorne and Renate Klein

The New Old Woman • Robin Morgan

The Women’s History Insurgency • Max Dashu

1945 • Coleen Clare

Against a Hierarchy of Oppressions • Linda Bellos

Full Body Scan • Sandra Butler

Old Feminists • Janice G. Raymond

Women’s Liberation Now and Then • Sheila Jeffreys

Activism • Alison J. Laurie

Madame Memory • Suniti Namjoshi

A ‘Sweetie’ I Am Not! • Betty McLellan

Dadirri • Judy Atkinson

Never the Victory, Only the Struggle • Phyllis Chesler

From Onlooker to Organizer • Corazon Valdez Fabros

The Homeward Star • Carol Lefevre

Emily’s Mermaid • Patricia Sykes

Onwards • Cheryl Adam

Never Underestimate the Power of a Group of Radical Feminists • Renate Klein

Never Turning Back: 50 Years of Feminism • Sandra Coney

A Proud Woman • Catherine Johns (Red Catherine)

Gracie Greylag the Protofeminist • Suniti Namjoshi

Activism Comes in Waves • Elaine Hutton

Waves of Feminism • Lynda Birke and Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes

Mary Stuart Queen of Scots • Jena Woodhouse

Rainbow’s End • Carole Moschetti

Still So Much To Do • Denise Thompson

Phone Call in the Year of COVID-19 • Sandra Shotlander

Our House • Biff Ward

Still Here, Still Clear and Still Lesbian • Peggy A. Luhrs

Autonomous and Abolitionist Feminism • Marta Fontenla

Strengthening Feminism in Aotearoa/New Zealand • Prue Hyman

Great-grandmother’s Disturbing Encounter at Checkout, 8.00 a.m., Woolworths at Kenmore, February 2021 • Carole Ferrier

Explosion in Beirut: August 4, 2020 • Evelyne Accad

I Am Impatient • Judy Atkinson

The Light Is in the Blood • Elaine d’Esterre

The Women’s Health Movement: Relevant as Never Before • Phillida Bunkle

Plunging In: Life and Times in the 1970s • Susan Varga

Education as Legitimate Escape to Independence for a Middle-class Woman • Maresi Nerad

Reclaiming Our 1970s Feminist History • Judy Wells

Angry Women • Lynne Harne

Silly Young Girls and Hairy-legged Lesbians • Lavender (Kate Lavender)

Becoming Irregular, Inspired by the Crones • Cheris Kramarae

Scribbling Sisters • Lynne Spender

A Golden Decade • Phyllis Hall

Liberating Goddesses • Spider Redgold

Mileva Einstein-Marić: Scientific Collaborator of Albert Einstein • Senta Trömel-Plötz

In Praise of Sappho • Suniti Namjoshi

Origins • Kerryn Higgs

Radical Lesbian Feminists United • Jean Taylor

I Wouldn’t Be Dead for Quids • Kaye Johnston

Could Be Wrong • Sue Ingleton

From Military Dictatorship to Patriarchal Neoliberalism: Always Feminist! • Magui Bellotti

A Call for Mother Earth and Humanity • Claudia von Werlhof

An Honest History • Martha Shelley

Ms Trewerway • Eileen Haley

Personally • Finola Moorhead

Interspersions from the Guard’s Van • Patricia Sykes

Surely Not! Says Who? Wait a Minute! • Helen Daintree

Life after Death: Carrying on the Work of Rita Arditti (1934–2009) • Estelle Disch

A Feminist Manifesto: Never Waste a Good Crisis • Diane Bell