J Mclellan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3486 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J Mclellan |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | Mclellan |
| ASSINATURA | MCLELLAN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5176-3305 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2004 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Proud of our families’
This article explores the history of the Bristol-based organisation Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), and its challenge to mainstream understandings of single parenthood. A sharp increase in single parent-led households since the 1970s had been met by a political and social narrative that single parent families (c. 90% of them headed by women) were both a drain on the public purse and a root cause of social breakdown. Both the Conservatives an…
A history of survival
In this article, we relate the story of a grassroots feminist archive. Single Parent Action Network, a Bristol-based national organisation, curated its own archive with great care throughout its history. When the organisation was forced to close in 2016, this irreplaceable repository of records, documents and audio-visual material was unceremoniously dumped in a skip. Thanks to prompt action by two long-time SPAN workers, it was rescued and becam…
Being alongside
This is the editors' introduction to a group of three articles on collaborative public history: history that is made with and by, as well as for, a range of public and community actors.We focus on collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or people who are working in a professional capacity.In this introduction, we use Saima Nasar and Gavin Schaffer's notion of being 'alongside' to describe their posit…
Creative Dislocation
This article introduces an experiment in collaborative historical practice. It describes how six historians visited the East Devon village of Branscombe, with the aim of creatively engaging with the present and past of the village. This was a collaborative and collective act of what we term here 'creative dislocation'. By dislocating from our usual routines, subjects, places, methods, and styles, and adopting creative methods and constraints, we …
Women, Work and Value in Post-War Europe
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From the Political to the Personal
How did British feminist art of the 1970s represent work and class, and what light does this shed on the women's movement more generally? This article discusses the work of artists, including Bobby Baker, the Feministo and Fenix collectives, the Hackney Flashers, and Mary Kelly. These artists were eager to connect feminist activism to other struggles on the Left and were thus initially drawn to document working-class women's paid work. Their poli…
Lesbians, Gay Men and The Production of Scale in East Germany
This article uses the concept of ‘scale’ to analyse the relative importance of local, national and global places, events, and explanatory frameworks in everyday lives in late communism. It uses a case study of lesbians and gay men living in East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and asks how these groups negotiated the restrictions of life under state socialism. It argues that both individuals and groups used scale in two ways: as an imaginative too…
Remaking the elite university
This article analyses and critiques the discourse around widening participation in elite universities in the UK. One response, from both university administrators and academics, has been to see this as an ‘intractable’ problem which can at best be ameliorated through outreach or marginal work in admissions policy. Another has been to reject the institution of the university completely, and seek to set up alternative models of autonomous higher ed…
The Contours of the Political
[no abstract]
The ‘Problem of Women’ in Post-War Europe
In 1947, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women met for the first time, in the inauspicious surroundings of a former aeroplane factory on Long Island, New York. Amid the chaos of the post-war world, delegates began to discuss how women might be granted equal rights. Unsurprisingly, their annual meetings were not immune to Cold War rhetoric and ideological rivalry. Many participants were eager to show that their own countries had ma…
From Private Photography to Mass Circulation
This article describes how a particular kind of queer figure moved from private photography into the mainstream of East German visual culture. It begins with a set of private photographs from the late 1960s from the collection of Heino Hilger, a regular, with his friends, at the East Berlin bar Burgfrieden . The photographs show how dressing in drag and the act of photography were important ways of constituting a gay male subculture. After the de…
Glad to be Gay Behind the Wall
The Gartenstrasse swimming pool lay tucked away in a sleepy corner of East Berlin, fenced in on two sides by the Berlin Wall. Its sauna was a well-known meeting ground for gay men, who sweated underneath a magnificently homoerotic stained-glass window designed by the Expressionist Max Pechstein. In 1971, in this apt municipal space, eighteen-year-old Michael Eggert and twenty-one-year-old Peter Rausch began a friendship which would lead to the fo…
Behind the Berlin Wall
The economist Albert Hirschmann famously summarised the options available to members of a company, organisation, or state in decline: they could choose to leave outright, express their discontent, or remain loyal—outwardly at least. Hirschmann and others have subsequently used this trio of ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’ to make sense of popular reactions to life in Communist East Germany. Why did some adapt with apparent ease to life under dictatorsh…
Im Abseits. Berufliche Diskriminierung und politische Dissidenz in der Honecker-DDR
Work and the workplace held a crucial place in East German society: as a marker of status and respectability, a social space and a means of accessing services such as childcare and telephone connections. In theory at least, the constitution guaranteed the right to work, but those who defied the political orthodoxy often found that such rights were easily lost. Danuta Kneipp has set out to explore the experience of East Germans who faced political…
Visual Dangers and Delights
In the public depiction of life under socialism, the rewards of collective endeavour, the joys of family life and the pleasures of self-improvement were never far away. Yellowing newspapers and magazines display familiar photographic patterns: towns are rebuilt; farms are collectivized; children are taught to love their socialist fatherland. The victims of fascism are commemorated, socialism is defended, and East German athletes triumph against t…
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Germany
Selling modernity
State Socialist Bodies
I Wanted to be a Little Lenin’
Around 2800 Germans joined the International Brigades and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Many had suffered political persecution in Germany, and the majority were already in exile when war broke out in Spain. This article asks what role ideology played in their decision to volunteer, and traces their changing motivation as they arrived in Spain, experienced combat for the first time, and eventually waited for the war to p…
Antifascism and Memory in East Germany
AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and inter…
The Politics of Communist Biography
After the German communist author Alfred Kantorowicz's break with Communism in 1957, he was lionized by his supporters as an icon of humanism and antifascism, and vilified by his former allies as a turncoat and traitor. In his autobiographical writings, Kantorowicz portrayed himself as a victim of Stalinism, who had always been opposed to the authoritarian and repressive aspects of Communism. Again and again he returned to his time in the Interna…
State Socialist Bodies
Remaking the elite university
This article analyses and critiques the discourse around widening participation in elite universities in the UK. One response, from both university administrators and academics, has been to see this as an ‘intractable’ problem which can at best be ameliorated through outreach or marginal work in admissions policy. Another has been to reject the institution of the university completely, and seek to set up alternative models of autonomous higher ed…
Glad to be Gay Behind the Wall
The Gartenstrasse swimming pool lay tucked away in a sleepy corner of East Berlin, fenced in on two sides by the Berlin Wall. Its sauna was a well-known meeting ground for gay men, who sweated underneath a magnificently homoerotic stained-glass window designed by the Expressionist Max Pechstein. In 1971, in this apt municipal space, eighteen-year-old Michael Eggert and twenty-one-year-old Peter Rausch began a friendship which would lead to the fo…
The ‘Problem of Women’ in Post-War Europe
In 1947, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women met for the first time, in the inauspicious surroundings of a former aeroplane factory on Long Island, New York. Amid the chaos of the post-war world, delegates began to discuss how women might be granted equal rights. Unsurprisingly, their annual meetings were not immune to Cold War rhetoric and ideological rivalry. Many participants were eager to show that their own countries had ma…
Visual Dangers and Delights
In the public depiction of life under socialism, the rewards of collective endeavour, the joys of family life and the pleasures of self-improvement were never far away. Yellowing newspapers and magazines display familiar photographic patterns: towns are rebuilt; farms are collectivized; children are taught to love their socialist fatherland. The victims of fascism are commemorated, socialism is defended, and East German athletes triumph against t…
I Wanted to be a Little Lenin’
Around 2800 Germans joined the International Brigades and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Many had suffered political persecution in Germany, and the majority were already in exile when war broke out in Spain. This article asks what role ideology played in their decision to volunteer, and traces their changing motivation as they arrived in Spain, experienced combat for the first time, and eventually waited for the war to p…
Being alongside
This is the editors' introduction to a group of three articles on collaborative public history: history that is made with and by, as well as for, a range of public and community actors.We focus on collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or people who are working in a professional capacity.In this introduction, we use Saima Nasar and Gavin Schaffer's notion of being 'alongside' to describe their posit…
From the Political to the Personal
How did British feminist art of the 1970s represent work and class, and what light does this shed on the women's movement more generally? This article discusses the work of artists, including Bobby Baker, the Feministo and Fenix collectives, the Hackney Flashers, and Mary Kelly. These artists were eager to connect feminist activism to other struggles on the Left and were thus initially drawn to document working-class women's paid work. Their poli…
From Private Photography to Mass Circulation
This article describes how a particular kind of queer figure moved from private photography into the mainstream of East German visual culture. It begins with a set of private photographs from the late 1960s from the collection of Heino Hilger, a regular, with his friends, at the East Berlin bar Burgfrieden . The photographs show how dressing in drag and the act of photography were important ways of constituting a gay male subculture. After the de…
Antifascism and Memory in East Germany
AntiFascism and Memory in East Germany is a book about remembering and about forgetting, about war, and about the peace which eventually followed. In the unlikely setting of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the Spanish Civil War became the subject of a debate which both predated and outlasted the Cold War, involving historians, veterans, politicains, censors, artists, writers, and Church activists. Examining these multiple memories and inter…
The Politics of Communist Biography
After the German communist author Alfred Kantorowicz's break with Communism in 1957, he was lionized by his supporters as an icon of humanism and antifascism, and vilified by his former allies as a turncoat and traitor. In his autobiographical writings, Kantorowicz portrayed himself as a victim of Stalinism, who had always been opposed to the authoritarian and repressive aspects of Communism. Again and again he returned to his time in the Interna…
I Wanted to be a Little Lenin’
Around 2800 Germans joined the International Brigades and fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. Many had suffered political persecution in Germany, and the majority were already in exile when war broke out in Spain. This article asks what role ideology played in their decision to volunteer, and traces their changing motivation as they arrived in Spain, experienced combat for the first time, and eventually waited for the war to p…
State Socialist Bodies
Mass Media, Culture and Society in Twentieth Century Germany
Selling modernity
Visual Dangers and Delights
In the public depiction of life under socialism, the rewards of collective endeavour, the joys of family life and the pleasures of self-improvement were never far away. Yellowing newspapers and magazines display familiar photographic patterns: towns are rebuilt; farms are collectivized; children are taught to love their socialist fatherland. The victims of fascism are commemorated, socialism is defended, and East German athletes triumph against t…
Im Abseits. Berufliche Diskriminierung und politische Dissidenz in der Honecker-DDR
Work and the workplace held a crucial place in East German society: as a marker of status and respectability, a social space and a means of accessing services such as childcare and telephone connections. In theory at least, the constitution guaranteed the right to work, but those who defied the political orthodoxy often found that such rights were easily lost. Danuta Kneipp has set out to explore the experience of East Germans who faced political…
Behind the Berlin Wall
The economist Albert Hirschmann famously summarised the options available to members of a company, organisation, or state in decline: they could choose to leave outright, express their discontent, or remain loyal—outwardly at least. Hirschmann and others have subsequently used this trio of ‘exit, voice, and loyalty’ to make sense of popular reactions to life in Communist East Germany. Why did some adapt with apparent ease to life under dictatorsh…
Glad to be Gay Behind the Wall
The Gartenstrasse swimming pool lay tucked away in a sleepy corner of East Berlin, fenced in on two sides by the Berlin Wall. Its sauna was a well-known meeting ground for gay men, who sweated underneath a magnificently homoerotic stained-glass window designed by the Expressionist Max Pechstein. In 1971, in this apt municipal space, eighteen-year-old Michael Eggert and twenty-one-year-old Peter Rausch began a friendship which would lead to the fo…
The Contours of the Political
[no abstract]
The ‘Problem of Women’ in Post-War Europe
In 1947, the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women met for the first time, in the inauspicious surroundings of a former aeroplane factory on Long Island, New York. Amid the chaos of the post-war world, delegates began to discuss how women might be granted equal rights. Unsurprisingly, their annual meetings were not immune to Cold War rhetoric and ideological rivalry. Many participants were eager to show that their own countries had ma…
From Private Photography to Mass Circulation
This article describes how a particular kind of queer figure moved from private photography into the mainstream of East German visual culture. It begins with a set of private photographs from the late 1960s from the collection of Heino Hilger, a regular, with his friends, at the East Berlin bar Burgfrieden . The photographs show how dressing in drag and the act of photography were important ways of constituting a gay male subculture. After the de…
Remaking the elite university
This article analyses and critiques the discourse around widening participation in elite universities in the UK. One response, from both university administrators and academics, has been to see this as an ‘intractable’ problem which can at best be ameliorated through outreach or marginal work in admissions policy. Another has been to reject the institution of the university completely, and seek to set up alternative models of autonomous higher ed…
Lesbians, Gay Men and The Production of Scale in East Germany
This article uses the concept of ‘scale’ to analyse the relative importance of local, national and global places, events, and explanatory frameworks in everyday lives in late communism. It uses a case study of lesbians and gay men living in East Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s, and asks how these groups negotiated the restrictions of life under state socialism. It argues that both individuals and groups used scale in two ways: as an imaginative too…
Women, Work and Value in Post-War Europe
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
From the Political to the Personal
How did British feminist art of the 1970s represent work and class, and what light does this shed on the women's movement more generally? This article discusses the work of artists, including Bobby Baker, the Feministo and Fenix collectives, the Hackney Flashers, and Mary Kelly. These artists were eager to connect feminist activism to other struggles on the Left and were thus initially drawn to document working-class women's paid work. Their poli…
Creative Dislocation
This article introduces an experiment in collaborative historical practice. It describes how six historians visited the East Devon village of Branscombe, with the aim of creatively engaging with the present and past of the village. This was a collaborative and collective act of what we term here 'creative dislocation'. By dislocating from our usual routines, subjects, places, methods, and styles, and adopting creative methods and constraints, we …
Being alongside
This is the editors' introduction to a group of three articles on collaborative public history: history that is made with and by, as well as for, a range of public and community actors.We focus on collaboration with members of the public and community groups rather than institutions or people who are working in a professional capacity.In this introduction, we use Saima Nasar and Gavin Schaffer's notion of being 'alongside' to describe their posit…
Proud of our families’
This article explores the history of the Bristol-based organisation Single Parent Action Network (SPAN), and its challenge to mainstream understandings of single parenthood. A sharp increase in single parent-led households since the 1970s had been met by a political and social narrative that single parent families (c. 90% of them headed by women) were both a drain on the public purse and a root cause of social breakdown. Both the Conservatives an…
A history of survival
In this article, we relate the story of a grassroots feminist archive. Single Parent Action Network, a Bristol-based national organisation, curated its own archive with great care throughout its history. When the organisation was forced to close in 2016, this irreplaceable repository of records, documents and audio-visual material was unceremoniously dumped in a skip. Thanks to prompt action by two long-time SPAN workers, it was rescued and becam…
Political science (19 obras) · Sociology (18 obras) · Law (17 obras) · Politics (13 obras) · European history and politics (12 obras) · History (11 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Gender Studies (7 obras) · German History and Society (7 obras) · Art (5 obras)