Making Trouble: Life and Politics - Brossura

Segal, Lynne

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ISBN 10: 1786631512 ISBN 13: 9781786631510

Casa editrice: Verso Books, 2017

Riassunto

What happens when angry young rebels become wary older women, raging in a leaner, meaner time: a time which exalts only the “new,” when the ruling orthodoxy daily disparages everything associated with the “old”? Delving into her own life and those who left their mark on it, Lynne Segal journeys through time to consider her generation of female dreamers, the experiences that formed them, what they have left to the world, and how they are remembered in a period when pessimism pervades public life. Searching for answers, she studies her family history, sexual awakening, and ethnicity, as well as the peculiarities of the time and place that shaped her political journey, with all its urgency, significance, pleasures and absurdities.

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'Funny, poignant, courageous and combative, Making Trouble teems with insights on the culture and politics of the last four decades. Lynne Segal herself weaves through the account, steadfast and still searching. A book for young rebels of all ages' --Sheila Rowbotham

'How can one live as a moral person in a largely immoral world? Different people will have different answers, but the example of this brilliant, adventurous, loving, woman is good enough for me. Lynne Segal is an international treasure, and her beautifully written, deeply engrossing memoir, Making Trouble, will inspire new generations to do the same' --Barbara Ehrenreich

'This is a subtle, reflective and wry account of a familiar period... this book is a moving defense of the pleasures and pains of human solidarity... [Segal] brings to her account a refreshing honesty, rigorous political and cultural analysis and an unsentimental advocacy of the importance of involvement in the sorrows and struggles of the world' --Melissa Benn Guardian

L'autore:

Lynne Segal is Anniversary Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies in the Department of Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College. Her books include Is the Future Female? Troubled Thoughts on Contemporary Feminism; Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men; and Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure. She co-wrote Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism with Sheila Rowbotham and Hilary Wainwright.

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• Editore: Verso Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1786631512
• ISBN 13: 9781786631510
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 316