Feminism Backwards (eBook)

Rosita Sweetman (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
288 Seiten
Mercier Press (Verlag)
978-1-78117-758-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Feminism Backwards is part memoir, part documentary. A founding member of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement Rosita Sweetman gleefully recalls the triumphs - and the tribulations - of trying to drag a reluctant Ireland into the 20th Century, crucially, re-appraising Chains or Change the IWLM's famous pamphlet, detailing what life was like for women in 1970s Ireland - appalling. Feminism Backwards is also a howl of despair at how women have been treated worldwide down through the centuries, and how misogyny and sexual repression got such a stranglehold on Ireland. Having a survived a marriage break up Rosita re-found her feminism sadly buried, along with her chutzpah. She passionately believes feminism is not about blaming men, or pushing a few women to the top so they can be 'she-men' for the patriarchy. It's about creating a world fit for everyone.

Autor

Born into a big political/legal family in Dublin Rosita began writing when she was 10. She's worked as a journalist with the Irish Press, the Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, as a 'runner' and secretary at BBC TV in London, and as a research assistant on RTE TV in Dublin. She has published three best selling books, On Our Knees (1972), On Our Backs, Sexual Attitudes in a Changing Ireland (1979) and a novel Fathers Come First (1974) recently re-published by the Lilliput Press (2015). In 2004 she co-produced an allergy cookbook with her children Chupi and Luke, What To Eat When You Can't Eat Anything. She is a critic for the Irish Times, the Sunday Independent, and the Dublin Review of Books. Having a survived a marriage break up Rosita re-found her feminism sadly buried, along with her chutzpah. She passionately believes feminism is not about blaming men, or pushing a few women to the top so they can be 'she-men' for the patriarchy. It's about creating a world fit for everyone. Of everything she has created her two adult children Chupi and Luke are way and above the most precious.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.8.2020
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 1970s • 1970s Ireland • abortion in Ireland • Biography • books about feminism • Chains or Change • conception train • Equal Rights for Women • Feminism • Feminism backwards • Feminism backwards, Feminism, Memoir, Biography, Rosita Sweetman, 1970s Ireland, Womens movement, Irish Womens Liberation Movement, liberation movement, misogyny, sexual repression,IWLMs pamphlet, conception train • Ireland • Irish History • Irish Women • Irish women's liberation movement • Irish Womens Liberation Movement • IWLMs pamphlet • liberation for women • liberation movement • Memoir • misogyny • Rosita Sweetman • Sexual repression • Social History • society against women • Violence Against Women • Women's history • womens movement • women's rights
• ISBN-10: 1-78117-758-9 / 1781177589
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78117-758-7 / 9781781177587