‘Politics of protest’: the personal and the political in Maggie Gee’s “May Hobbs: a story on the Night Clearners’ Strike
Maggie Gee’s “May Hobbs: a story on the Night Cleaner’ Strike” (2017) helps to rescue from oblivion the role May Hobbs played in forming the Cleaners Action Group (CAG), which received the support of the Women Liberation Movement (WLM). I argue that this short story is a politically committed text w...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI) |
| Repositorio: | RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/67336 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10651/67336 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Maggie Gee May Hobbs Night Cleaners’ Strike Women Liberation Movement |
| Sumario: | Maggie Gee’s “May Hobbs: a story on the Night Cleaner’ Strike” (2017) helps to rescue from oblivion the role May Hobbs played in forming the Cleaners Action Group (CAG), which received the support of the Women Liberation Movement (WLM). I argue that this short story is a politically committed text which addresses main aspects of the Campaign such as issues of representation, class divisions and sisterhood alliances, to emphasise the different ways in which the personal is indeed political. |
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