Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: A Success without Impact? Case Studies from the Women’s Liberation Movements in Europe 1
4. Part I The Women’s Liberation Movement and Institutional Change: Introductory Remarks
5. Chapter 1 Women’s Liberation Movement and Professional Equality The Swiss Case 15
6. Chapter 2 How the Women’s Movement Changed Academia: A Comparison of Germany and the United States 36
7. Chapter 3 Female Bodies—Fetal Subjects? New Reproductive Technologies, Feminist Claims, and Political Change in Switzerland in the 1970/1980s 51
8. Part II Sharing Words
9. Introductory Remarks 67
10. Chapter 4 Momone and the Bonnes Femmes; or Beauvoir and the MLF 73
11. Chapter 5 Women and Words: Literary Practices as Collective Self-Discovery 91
12. Chapter 6 Lesbian Vertigo: Living the Women’s Liberation Movement on the Edge of Europe 109
13. Chapter 7 Sexy Stories and Postfeminist Empowerment: From Häutungen to Wetlands 129
14. Part III Identities at Stake: Gender, Race, Class
15. Introductory Remarks 151
16. Chapter 8 Lesbianism as Political Construction in the French Feminist Context 157
17. Chapter 9 Gender and Class in the Italian Women’s Liberation Movement 178
18. Chapter 10 “Sisterhood Is Plain Sailing?” Multiracial Feminist Collectives in 1980s Britain 198
19. Chapter 11 Uneasy Solidarity: The British Men’s Movement and Feminism 214
20. Part IV Beyond National Boundaries
21. Introductory Remarks 237
22. Chapter 12 Echoes of Ourselves? Feminisms between East and West in the Leningrad Almanac Woman and Russia 243
23. Chapter 13 Cyberfeminism on the German-Speaking Net: Contestation beyond Binary Code 261
24. Part V Thinking about Impact and Change: Concepts and Research Strategies
25. Introductory Remarks 279
26. Chapter 14 The Myth and the Archives: Some Reflections on Swedish Feminism in the 1970s 285
27. Chapter 15 After the Protest: Biographical Consequences of Movement Activism in an Oral History of Women’s Liberation in Britain 298
28. Chapter 16 Writing the History of Feminisms (Old and New) Impacts and Impatience 320
29. Postscript 337
30. Index 346