First published in 1994 Stirring It debates the challenges which confront feminism and Women's Studies in the 1990s. In the face of current worldwide political and social upheavals, Stirring It poses questions about women, their bodies, their identities, and positions which need to be addressed by contemporary feminists.

Introduction: Stirring It: Challenges for Feminism Section I: Feminist Politics in Action Introduction 1. Paying Our Disrespects to the Bloody States We’re In: Women, Violence, Culture and the State 2. History Of Women's Liberation Movements in Britain: A Reflective Personal History 3. Non-Decision Making... A Management Guide to Keeping Women's Interest Issues Off the Political Agenda Section II: Disrupting Sexual and Gender Identities? Introduction 4. Dire Straights? Contemporary Rehabilitations of Heterosexuality 5. Flaunting The Body: Gender and Identity in American Feminist Performance 6. Anti-Monogamy: A Radical Challenge to Compulsory Heterosexuality? Section III: Imaging and Imagining Introduction 7. Angry Young Women? Sex and Class in Neil Dunn's Up the Junction 8. ‘Not Happy but Hopeful’: Readers of Catherine Cookson in the Northeast of England 9. Splitting the Difference: Adventures in the Anatomy and Embodiment of Women Section IV: Women's Studies and Feminist Practice Introduction 10. Interventions in Hostile Territory 11. Eastern European Women with Western Eyes 12. Relations among Women: Using the Group to Unite Theory and Experience Notes on Contributors Index