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

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) était une historienne britannique du début de la période moderne. De 1990 à 2011, elle a été professeure centenaire d'études de la Renaissance et directrice du Centre for Editing Lives and Letters à Queen Mary, Université de Londres. Depuis 2008, elle était présidente de la Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] Elle était membre du Conseil de l'Institution royale, mais a démissionné de ce poste en septembre 2009. Le 1er septembre 2012, elle a déménagé avec son centre de recherche et son personnel. à l'University College London (UCL) pour devenir le premier directeur de son Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en sciences humaines.

What's Left : Women in Culture and the Labour Movement pdf par 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.