Gender, emancipation, and political violence : rethinking the legacy of 1968 / edited by Sarah Colvin and Katharina Karcher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

On the legitimacy of violence as a political act : Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag, Ulrike Meinhof and Bernadine Dohrn / Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey -- "Deeds not words!" : a comparative analysis of feminist militancy in pre- and post-1968 Europe / Katharina Karcher -- "But what about our fury?" : political violence as feminist practice / Patricia Melzer -- 1968, take two : the militancy of Nina Simone / Charity Scribner -- Women, words and images, 1968 : textual/sexual politics in Helke Sander's The subjective factor / Mererid Puw Davies -- Aesthetic motions of resistance in feminist creative work / Carrie Smith -- Aggression and peaceability : masculine drives and feminist visions in the writings of Alexander Mitscherlich and Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen / Barbara Becker-Cantarino -- Serious harm to bodies : contradictions of anti-masculinist violence in the 1970s / Julian Bourg -- Anti, anti, anti! : counterviolence and anti-sexism in Hamburg's autonomous Rote Flora / Ali Jones.