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Yoken, Hannah. 2021. Transnational Transfers and Mainstream Mappings: women’s liberation calendars of the 1970s and 1980s. In Bracke, Maud Anne, Julia C. Bullock, Penelope Morris and Kristina Schulz, eds. Translating Feminism: interdisciplinary approaches to text, place and agency. London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 117–146.
Publication type
Chapter in book
Publication language
English

Abstract

Women’s liberation calendars, also known as almanacs or daybooks, form an overlooked and forgotten aspect of feminist print culture. In North America and Europe, during the 1970s and 1980s, feminist calendars emerged from within and as a commercial extension of the women’s liberation movement. This chapter posits that women’s liberation calendars exemplify a transnationally resonant feminist communication strategy, marked by the cultural translation and contemporaneous uptake of this specific medium of women’s writing. It also contends that by analysing the many different settings from which women’s liberation calendars emerged, one can begin to map the ways in which feminism became mainstreamed and commercialised during the second half of the twentieth century. Furthermore, this chapter explores the transnational resonance of cultural feminism during the 1970s and 1980s, and investigates the editorial strategies utilised by the activists responsible for producing feminist calendars. The chapter draws on numerous primary sources from across multiple different national and local settings, most notably the Swedish calendar series Kvinnokalender and the United States-based circular Feminist Bookstore News.
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