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Re-reading Spare Rib

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Editors:
  1. Angela Smith

    1. Department of Culture, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom

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  • Offers a coherent analysis of a magazine that has had huge impact on feminism, and has been widely cited in studies of Second Wave Feminism
  • Provides a multi-disciplinary approach and contributors include experienced researchers as well as post-graduate students and non-academics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Angela Smith, Sheila Quaid
    Pages 1-19

  3. Reading Spare Rib: Creating the Sisterhood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. ‘What Did It Mean?’ A Generational Conversation

      • Lynn Edmonds, Rosie White
      Pages 23-40

    3. Feminist Perspectives: North East and National

      • Julie Scanlon
      Pages 41-58

    4. Reflections on Reading Spare Rib: Personal and Political

      • Sheila Quaid
      Pages 59-76

    5. From Spare Rib to Spare Part: From Overt to Covert Sexism in Education

      • Bridget Cooper
      Pages 77-96

  4. Re-reading Spare Rib: Exploring the Sisterhood

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-98
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    2. Workplace: Women’s Place?

      • Patricia Bryans, Helen Fraser, Paul-Alan Armstrong
      Pages 99-118

    3. Styling Feminism: The View from Spare Rib

      • Angela Smith
      Pages 119-136

    4. ‘Defending Ourselves’: British Female Martial Arts Students in the 1970s and Their Refusal to Be Victims

      • Maria Fotiadou
      Pages 137-157

    5. The Frontiers of Sisterhood: Representations of Black Feminism in Spare Rib (1972–1979)

      • Donna Chambers, Rob Worrall
      Pages 159-178

    6. An Exploration of Spare Rib’s Treatment of Violence Between Women in Same-Sex Relationships

      • Catherine Donovan
      Pages 179-196

    7. ‘A New Kind of Trade’: Advertising Feminism in Spare Rib

      • Victoria Bazin
      Pages 197-212

    8. On the Road: Spare Rib, Liberation and Women’s Writing

      • Kathleen Kerr-Koch
      Pages 213-230

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 231-238
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About this book

Spare Rib remains one of the most iconic symbols of Second Wave Feminism, its influence far out-living the span of its publication (1972-1993).  This collection examines various aspects of the magazine - based on the digitised publication by the British Library in 2015 – in order to explore the ways in which it has influenced society in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, as well as the lives of individual readers. By analysing several articles from a modern, post-feminist perspective, and using cross-generational interviews of Spare Rib readers and reflective accounts of reading the publication, the significance and endurance of the publication is demonstrated. Written by both academics, experienced researchers and independent scholars alike, the inter-disciplinary nature of the text results in a multi-dimensional reading of Spare Rib suitable for both an academic and general readership interested in cultural and media studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Culture, University of Sunderland, Sunderland, United Kingdom

    Angela Smith

About the editor

Professor Angela Smith is Lecturer at the School of Culture, University of Sunderland. Angela has published widely in the areas of media discourse, sociolinguistics and gender.  She is author of Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War (2011) and with Claire Nally co-edited Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming and Preforming Femininity (2015).  With Claire Nally, she is editor of the I.B. Tauris International Library of Gender in Popular Culture.

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