Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s.

1994 ◽  
Vol 99 (5) ◽  
pp. 1773
Author(s):  
Harriet Hyman Alonso ◽  
Amy Swerdlow
Keyword(s):  
Radical Politics ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Women Strike For Peace

James Malcolm Rymer

2022 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Business Model ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Gothic Novel ◽  
Profound Impact ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
String Of Pearls

James Malcolm Rymer (b. 1814–d. 1884) created two of the most influential monsters of 19th-century fiction: Varney the Vampyre and Sweeney Todd. The son of an Edinburgh-born London engraver, Malcolm Rymer, who published poetry and a Gothic novel, Rymer was raised in a working-class literary-artistic family. His brothers Gaven and Chadwick were artists, and his brother Thomas put his engraving skills to criminal use as a serial financial forger. For the penny periodicals magnate Edward Lloyd, Rymer prolifically wrote bestselling serials including Ada, the Betrayed, or, The Murder at the Old Smithy (1843); The Black Monk, or, The Secret of the Grey Turret (1844); Varney, the Vampyre, or, The Feast of Blood (1845–1847); and the Sweeney Todd tale The String of Pearls, a Romance (1846–1847, expanded in 1850 as The String of Pearls, or The Barber of Fleet Street). In the 1850s, Lloyd’s business model changed. Favoring news over fiction, he jettisoned Rymer, who in 1858 took up employment composing serials for Reynolds’s Miscellany, a penny periodical founded by the radical journalist and novelist George W. M. Reynolds. Some of Rymer’s serials of this period, such as the outlaw romances Edith the Captive, or the Robbers of Epping Forest (1861–1862) and its sequel Edith Heron, or the Earl and the Countess (1866), were issued in stand-alone editions by Reynolds’s regular publisher, John Dicks. Rymer also composed essays, short tales, and poetry and served as a periodical editor, including of two of Lloyd’s penny periodicals. Extremely private, he published for the most part anonymously, as “the author of” several of his bestselling penny bloods, and under a variety of pseudonyms, including the anagrams “Malcolm J. Errym” and “Malcolm J. Merry” and “Lady Clara Cavendish.” In the 20th century, while Sweeney Todd’s fame grew, Rymer was largely forgotten, in part because an apocryphal bibliographic tradition erroneously maintained that The String of Pearls and many of his other works were written by another Lloyd employee, Thomas Peckett Prest. Since the 1960s, scholarly interest in penny fiction has brought to light Rymer’s contemporaneous popularity, his complex aesthetics, his often liberal or radical politics, his profound impact on Victorian mass culture, and his work’s vibrant transmedia afterlives.

The Other 1960s Student

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Susan M. Reverby
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Black Power ◽  
Football Player ◽  
The Other ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Cornell University ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S

Berkman became a pre-med at Cornell University in the mid 1960s, as the social movements of the 1960s swirled around him. He became a football player, president of his fraternity, and focused on getting into medical school, not radical politics. He got into every medical school he applied to and won major scholarships. A lecture by Black Power advocate Stokley Carmichael during his last semester in college, however, made him begin to question his place and role in the world.

scholarly journals POSTANARCHISM AS A PHILOSOPHY OF RADICAL POLITICS

2020 ◽  
pp. 34-43
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Large Family ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Radical Politics ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Left Movement

The article presents the postanarchist conceptualization of radical politics. The methodology of this study was a critical analysis and use of historical and philosophical methods, the method of contextualism, the method of discursive analysis. In connection with the intensification of protest movements, including those aimed at combating the omnipotence of the state, the spread of the ideology of anti-globalization is growing theoretical interest in anarchism. Anarchism today is not the only political doctrine. This is a large family of like-minded people, united by hostility to uncontrolled power, distrust of the hierarchy and optimistic belief in the ability of ordinary people to control their lives and organize social relations on the basis of freedom, equality and solidarity. In the framework of the announced “anarchist turn”, anarchism is manifested as the basis of radical policy in recent times. The theoretical foundations of modern anarchism remain poorly understood. Modern political radicalism is based on a certain philosophy, which in a new way substantiates the ideas and actions in the socio-political sphere, aimed at radical change of existing social institutions. This is a philosophy of action, struggle, protest. Postanarchism is seen as a new view of radical politics. The features of philosophical essentialism as the basis of conceptual modeling in classical anarchism are formulated. Postanarchism is presented as a philosophy that avoids essentialism, its tools are analyzed. The connection between the left movement of the 1960s and modern post-capitalist movements is analyzed. Political theory here is further developed, ceases to be abstract, filled with human meaning. Within the framework of the “anarchist turn” there is a gradual destruction of the main stereotypes or narratives about anarchism (about its theoretical insolvency, unscientificity, utopianism) formed over many years in literature and public opinion. It is proved that the theory of anarchism is constantly evolving and updated over time in order to find solutions to acute social, political and economic problems. The author sees the prospects of post-anarchism in its political philosophy, which has certain values. In the modern era, such a philosophy was supplanted by positivist political science in theory and for the triumph of moral nihilism and relativism in practice. The obtained results allow us to find out what distinguishes modern anarchism as a movement and philosophy from the left movements of the past and the features of the theoretical language of description of the modern protest movement.

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