Forging a Politics of Care
Theorizing Household Work in the British Women's Liberation Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4835901 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Stoller (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Pages | 95-119 |
| Publication date | 2018-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History Workshop Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-3554 • E-ISSN: 1477-4569 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/hwj/dbx063 |
| OpenAlex | W2795008607 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 11 |
Over the course of the 1970s, feminists in Britain and elsewhere in the West came together to expose the hidden labour involved in caring for men, for the home, and for dependents. This paper explores how the activists of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain forged a multifaceted politics of care. While highlighting the drudgery of and exploitation underlying women’s caring work, activists also appealed to a positive notion of caring as the basis for a new feminist sisterhood. By the late 1970s, the reconfiguration of the labour market and state services in Britain had lent questions of women’s work a new resonance. Tracing how feminists sought to capture and communicate the conditions of women’s caring work sheds light on both the transformation of Britain’s political economy in this period and a neglected area of second-wave feminism.
Feminism · Liberation movement · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Women's work · Work (physics) · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2024 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |