Knowledge as Resistance The Feminist International Network of Resist
This book presents a historicised account of the Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering (FINRRAGE), a coordinated effort during the 1980s and 1990s by an international group of women to create and disseminate
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The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering
stevienna de saille
Knowledge as Resistance
Stevienna de Saille
Knowledge as Resistance The Feminist International Network of Resistance to Reproductive and Genetic Engineering
Stevienna de Saille Institute for the Study of the Human University of Sheffield Sheffield, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-52726-4 ISBN 978-1-137-52727-1 https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-52727-1
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Preface
In 2005, while I was doing a Master’s degree in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds, a woman named Jalna Hanmer came to give a talk on the Feminist Archive North (FAN), a repository in the Brotherton Library’s Special Collections, for which she was a trustee. She carried with her a crate full of purple-inked newsletters, some titles familiar to me, some not, representing the early history of the British Women’s Liberation Movement. Intrigued, I accepted her invitation to come see FAN for myself and wound up as a volunteer archivist for the next 6 years. During my MA I helped unpack and process a very large collection of document
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