'Notes on a Community Struggle' Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the 'mass struggle of housewives'
'Notes on a Community Struggle' Big Flame, the Kirkby rent strike and the 'mass struggle of housewives'
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“社区斗争笔记”大火、柯克比租金罢工和“家庭主妇的群众斗争”
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10.1080/09612025.2022.2126634
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2022
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McGiveron K
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本文以一个空间框架来探讨混合性别革命组织“大火焰”（1970-1984）的社会主义和女权主义活动。它关注的是嵌入在默西塞德郡柯克比的工人阶级社区中的Big Flame“基础团体”。它增加了以妇女为中心的社区组织的历史编纂，将“大火焰”置于欧洲各地从事新类型政治空间活动的团体之中。积极分子利用“第二条战线”参与女权主义辩论，挑战性别话语。这些倡议，以及对活动家本身产生的社会心理影响，也构成了“个人和集体解放”的一部分，Gerd-Rainer Horn将其概述为1968年的关键遗产。这篇文章将表明，Big Flame对女权主义和经验的优先考虑使他们模糊了私人、公共、社会和亲密日常经验之间的界限。口述历史访谈的使用，揭示了积极分子的主观经验的内心世界，因为他们驾驭了性别和阶级的话语连接结构的复杂性。“火焰中的女性”记录了她们自己自主的女权主义经历，当“火焰”为庄园里的工人阶级女性提供个人政治时，这些表达使她们作为女性的不为人知的激进主义得以显现。
This article uses a spatial framework to explore socialist and feminist activism by mixed sex revolutionary organisation Big Flame (1970–1984). It focuses on a Big Flame ‘base group’ embedded within the working class community of Kirkby, Merseyside. It adds to the growing historiography on women-centred community-based organising to situate Big Flame amongst the groups across Europe engaging in activism around spaces for new types of politics. Activists used ‘the second front’ to engage with feminist debates and challenge gendered discourses. These initiatives, as well as having a socio-psychological impact on the activists themselves also formed part of what was to be the ‘personal and collective liberation’ which Gerd-Rainer Horn outlined as a key legacy of 1968. This article will suggest that Big Flame’s prioritisation of feminism and experience enabled them to blur the boundaries between the private, public, social and intimate everyday experience. The use of oral history interviews sheds light on the inner world of activists’ subjective experience as they navigated the complexities of the discursively connected structures of gender and class. Women in Big Flame documented their own autonomous feminist experience and as Big Flame made the personal political for working-class women on the estates, these expressions made their unseen activism as women visible.