Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation
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.
— Phyllis Chesler, 4W
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