What's Left : Women in Culture and the Labour Movement PDF

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) war eine britische Historikerin der frühen Neuzeit. Von 1990 bis 2011 war sie Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies und Direktorin des Centre for Editing Lives and Letters an der Queen Mary, University of London. Seit 2008 war sie Vorsitzende der Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA). Sie war Mitglied des Rates der Royal Institution, trat jedoch im September 2009 von diesem Posten zurück. Am 1. September 2012 zog sie mit ihrem Forschungszentrum und seinen Mitarbeitern um an das University College London (UCL) als erster Direktor seines Zentrums für interdisziplinäre Forschung in den Geisteswissenschaften.

What's Left : Women in Culture and the Labour Movement pdf von Lisa Jardine

First published in 1990. What had been left out of Left thought? What had allowed the Left to substitute nostalgia for programme and action, and to continue to address itself exclusively to labouring men, despite insistent demands for inclusion from others – notably women – who recognised themselves as belonging to the Left? What’s Left?, a feminist challenge to the male-dominated ideology of the Labour Party, took shape under the pressure of two crucial events: the third successive election defeat of Labour by the Conservative Party, and the death of Raymond Williams. Swindells and Jardine analyse the difficulties the Left had including women in its account of class, to clarify general problems in British Left thought. They conclude that there was a serious and widely-perceived discrepancy between the Labour Party’s model of working-class consciousness and the experiences of the contemporary workforce as a whole. An important exploration of the intellectual history of the Labour Movement, What’s Left? looks critically at the Left from within the Left. It will be fascinating reading for students of cultural studies, history, politics and women’s studies.