This glorious, lavishly illustrated book is one of the most often used in Glasgow Women’s Library.
Its 230 large-format pages chart the trajectory of women’s liberation – from the first-wave suffragette organisations, through the gender-based violence and peace campaigning literature of the feminist second- wave – with exquisite pictures.
Attention is paid to the early 20th-century revolutionary movements across the world, as well as subsequent activism on women’s health, sexuality, FGM, employment, education and representation.
Each chapter has helpful contextualising essays but it is the images – whether Barbara Kruger’s arresting graphics for the 1989 pro-choice march in Washington, or the Ivory Coast commemorative cloth celebrating the UN International Year of the Woman in 1975 – that I find perennially uplifting, illuminating and inspiring.
This book is a great introduction to the powerful and often humorous iconography of feminism.
Adele Patrick is the lifelong learning and creative development manager at Glasgow Women’s Library
Its 230 large-format pages chart the trajectory of women’s liberation – from the first-wave suffragette organisations, through the gender-based violence and peace campaigning literature of the feminist second- wave – with exquisite pictures.
Attention is paid to the early 20th-century revolutionary movements across the world, as well as subsequent activism on women’s health, sexuality, FGM, employment, education and representation.
Each chapter has helpful contextualising essays but it is the images – whether Barbara Kruger’s arresting graphics for the 1989 pro-choice march in Washington, or the Ivory Coast commemorative cloth celebrating the UN International Year of the Woman in 1975 – that I find perennially uplifting, illuminating and inspiring.
This book is a great introduction to the powerful and often humorous iconography of feminism.
Adele Patrick is the lifelong learning and creative development manager at Glasgow Women’s Library
