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

Lisa Anne Bronowski (Jardine) è stata una storica britannica della prima età moderna. Dal 1990 al 2011 è stata Professoressa del Centenario di Studi sul Rinascimento e Direttore del Center for Editing Lives and Letters presso la Queen Mary, University of London. Dal 2008 è stata presidente della Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA)] È stata membro del Consiglio della Royal Institution, ma si è dimessa da tale incarico nel settembre 2009. Il 1 settembre 2012 si è trasferita con il suo centro di ricerca e il suo personale all'University College London (UCL) per diventare il primo direttore del suo Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities.

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