The Trouble and Strife Reader

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Debbie Cameron & Joan Scanlon. Manifestos: Editorial statement (1983), Editorial statement (1993). Controversies: Thicker than Water: Mothering and Childcare (1985) Ruth Wallsgrove; The Demand that Time Forgot (1992) Dena Attar; Baby Talk (1992) Diana Leonard; Mothers' Union? (1992) Christine Delphy; Weasel Words (1996) Liz Kelly; All in a Day's Work? (1997) Celia Jenkins & Ruth Swirsky; Unspeakable Acts (1991) Liz Kelly; The Portable Cage (1990) Dena Attar; Difference is not all that Counts (1999) Purna Sen. Sexuality: Sex and Danger: Feminism and AIDS (1987) Sara Scott; Queer Straits (1993) Julia Parnaby; From Sexual Politics to Body Politics (1994) Susanne Kappeler; Straight Talking (1995) Stevi Jackson. Theory: The Liberal Organ (1984) Debbie Cameron & Liz Frazer; The Amazing Deconstructing Woman (1992) Stevi Jackson; Back to Nature (1997) Debbie Cameron. History: Mothers of Invention (1985) Rachel Hasted; 'You're a Dyke, Angela!' (1987) Rosemary Auchmuty; Storming the Wimpy Bars (1984) Sara Scott interviews Lilian Mohin; Taking on the Dinosaurs (1997) Liz Kelly interviews Monica McWilliams; Dispatches from the Front Line (1998) Sarah Maguire. Culture: 12 steps to heaven (1989) Cath Jackson; Men of Tin (1991) Sigrid Rausing; Bad Apple (1994) Joan Scanlon & Julia Swindells; Ignorance is Bliss When You're Just Seventeen (1996) Stevi Jackson; Housewives' Choice (2001) Delilah Campbell; It's Life, Jim... But Not As We Know It (2001) Carol Morley. Notes on Contributors; Index

Deborah Cameron is Rupert Murdoch Professor of Language and Communication at Worcester College, University of Oxford. She is the author of ten books, most recently The Myth of Mars and Venus: Do Men and Women Really Speak Different Languages (OUP 2008), and the editor of three, including a successful reader which has been in print since 1990, The Feminist Critique of Language (Routledge). She was a member of the five-woman editorial collective that was in place when Trouble and Strife ceased publication in 2002. Joan Scanlon taught at the London Contemporary Dance School and at the Open University for 15 years. She was a member of the editorial board and a regular contributor to Trouble and Strife magazine, she is the author of numerous articles on women's studies and literature and the editor of Surviving the Blues: Young Women's Experience of Thatcher's Britain (Virago 1990). Since 2000 she has been a self-employed gardener and plantswoman in North London. She is also the chair of Clean Break Theatre Company.

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