Making Trouble : Life and Politics

by Segal, Lynne

• ISBN13: 9781852429379
• ISBN10: 1852429372
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-04-01
• Publisher: Consortium Book Sales & Dist

Summary

Encountering anarchists in her native Australia at seventeen led Lynne Segal to a life spent in political activism, beginning with her first arrest for protesting at eighteen. Moving to London and taking up residence in a flat just vacated by Doris Lessing, Segal met the women from north London's Grosvenor Avenue, who had been arrested for sabotaging the Miss World Contest in 1970. She spent the rest of the 70s combining motherhood with communal living, politicking and free love, as well as helping to publish the Islington Gutter Press, eventually moving into academia as the fierce radicalism of previous years faded in the 1980s.Looking back at a life well lived, Lynne Segal considers what formed her generation and what mark they have left on the world. From the dutiful and compliant 1950s when she grew up to the freedom and empowerment of the 60s and 70s, Making Trouble examines where those dreamers have ended up.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. viii
Prologue	p. 1
Living memories	p. 5
Ruptures and renovations	p. 11
Strictly personal	p. 17
In the beginning	p. 18
Buried pasts	p. 21
Household shadows	p. 24
Searching for values	p. 29
My Sydney Sixties	p. 33
Sleeping around	p. 34
Anarchism without ends	p. 37
Sojourning in perverse normality	p. 50
Hearing voices	p. 56
Fragile beginnings	p. 61
Revolutionary household rotas	p. 70
Feminism and motherhood	p. 83
Escape into action	p. 91
Life as politics	p. 92
Ideas in the void?	p. 101
Women's cultural renaissance	p. 108
Contesting injuries	p. 120
Twists of time	p. 131
Political timelines	p. 138
Battling for words	p. 139
The rise and fall of socialist man	p. 145
Living with difference	p. 151
Women's disputed legacies	p. 158
Phallic mother	p. 164
Temporal belongings	p. 172
When sexual warriors grow old	p. 175
Cultures of ageing	p. 177
Hazards of autonomy	p. 181
The bonds of loss	p. 185
The brakes on love	p. 194
Age comes of age	p. 202
As a rootless cosmopolitan: Jewish questions	p. 212
Who's a Jew?	p. 212
History lessons	p. 215
Faultlines of memory	p. 219
The hidden powers of injury	p. 228
Critical connections	p. 238
Dissident affiliations	p. 247
Ways of belonging	p. 253
Generational transmission	p. 256
Fragile endings	p. 264
Notes and references	p. 269
Index	p. 306
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