Fighting for Recovery: foremothers and feminism in the 1970s

TY - JOUR

T1 - Fighting for Recovery

T2 - foremothers and feminism in the 1970s

AU - Floyd, Janet

PY - 2016/9/2

Y1 - 2016/9/2

N2 - This article argues that the feminist recovery of ‘a history of our own’ during the 1970s proved difficult in ways not fully addressed in generalising narratives (celebratory or regretful) of feminist historical work. The recovery of a nineteenth-century ‘pioneer woman', Mary Hallock Foote, demonstrates the competing interests in play—feminist and anti-feminist, popular and scholarly, public and familial, national and local—as well as the problematic positions of that these cross-cutting debates. The question of recovery, use and even ownership, of Foote and her history retains its ability to spark argument almost fifty years later.

AB - This article argues that the feminist recovery of ‘a history of our own’ during the 1970s proved difficult in ways not fully addressed in generalising narratives (celebratory or regretful) of feminist historical work. The recovery of a nineteenth-century ‘pioneer woman', Mary Hallock Foote, demonstrates the competing interests in play—feminist and anti-feminist, popular and scholarly, public and familial, national and local—as well as the problematic positions of that these cross-cutting debates. The question of recovery, use and even ownership, of Foote and her history retains its ability to spark argument almost fifty years later.

U2 - 10.1080/09612025.2015.1132879

DO - 10.1080/09612025.2015.1132879

M3 - Article

SN - 0961-2025

VL - 25

SP - 832

EP - 846

JO - WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW

JF - WOMENS HISTORY REVIEW

IS - 5

ER -