Sisterhood and After

This ground-breaking history of the UK Women's Liberation Movement examines the movement's shape and strategy as well as the conditions that gave rise to it. Through personal stories of key activists, the politics of experience is sympathetically evaluated in the context of iconic moments of the movement. It urges today's activists to engage anew with feminist memory in shaping new political futures.

Margaretta Jolly is based at the University of Sussex in England, where she is Professor of Cultural Studies and director of the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. Margaretta's work has focused on auto/biography, letter writing and oral history, particularly in relation to women's movements. She is the editor of The Encyclopedia of Life Writing (2001) and author of In Love and Struggle: Letters in Contemporary Feminism (2008), for which she won the Feminist and Women's Studies Association UK Book Prize. Working with the British Library in London, Margaretta directed Sisterhood and After: The Womens Liberation Oral History Project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She currently leads The Business of Women's Words: Purpose and Profit in Feminist Publishing, funded by the Leverhulme and partnered with the British Library.