Re-reading Spare Rib

Professor Angela Smith is Lecturer at the School of Culture, University of Sunderland. Angela has published widely in the areas of media discourse, sociolinguistics and gender. She is author of Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War (2011) and with Claire Nally co-edited Twenty-First Century Feminism: Forming and Preforming Femininity (2015). With Claire Nally, she is editor of the I.B. Tauris International Library of Gender in Popular Culture.

1. Introduction. - 2. What did it mean?': A Generational Conversation Edmonds and White.- 3. Feminist Perspectives: North East and National, Scanlon.-  4. Reflections on reading Spare Rib: personal and political, Quaid.- 5. From Spare Rib to spare part: from over to covert sexism in education, Cooper.- 6. Workplace: women's place Bryans, Fraser and Armstrong.- 7. Styling Feminism: the view from Spare RibSmith.- 8. Defending ourselves: British female martial arts students in the 1970s.Fotiadou.- 9. The frontiers of sisterhood: representations of black feminism in Spare Rib (1972-1979), Chambers and Worrell. - 10.  An exploration of Spare Rib's treatment of violence between women in same sex relationships, Donovan.- 11. 'A new kind of trade': advertising feminism in Spare Rib, Bazin.- 12. On the Road: Spare Rib, Liberation and Women's Writing, Kerr-Koch.-