Gender, Emancipation, and Political Violence: Rethinking the Legacy of 1968

This volume presents and interrogates both theoretical and artistic expressions of the revolutionary, militant spirit associated with 1968 and the aftermath, in the specific context of gender.

The contributors explore political-philosophical discussions of the legitimacy of violence, the gender of aggression and peaceability, and the contradictions of counter violence; but also womens artistic and creative interventions, which have rarely been considered. Together the chapters provide and provoke a wide-ranging rethink of how we read not only 1968 but more generally the relationship between gender, political violence, art and emancipation.

This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of protest and violence in the fields of history, politics and international relations, sociology, cultural studies, and womens studies.