The Trouble & Strife Reader


T&S Reader cover illustration

T&S Reader cover illustration

The Trouble & Strife Reader, a collection of articles from the journal, was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2009.

“Be prepared to be enlightened, enraged, amused, engaged, and above all provoked.”
-Beatrix Campbell

Introduction : Trouble & Strife Magazine, 1983–2002

Part 1. Manifestos
Chapter 1. Editorial Statement (1983) : The Trouble & Strife Collective
Chapter 2. Editorial Statement (1993) : The Trouble & Strife Collective

Part 2. Controversies

Chapter 3. Thicker Than Water? Mothering and Childcare (1985) – Ruth Wallsgrove
Chapter 4. The Demand that Time Forgot (1992) – Dena Attar
Chapter 5. Baby Talk (1992) – Diana Leonard
Chapter 6. Mothers’ Union? (1992) – Christine Delphy
Chapter 7. Weasel Words (1996) – Liz Kelly
Chapter 8. All in a Day’s Work? (1997) – Ruth Swirsky and Celia Jenkins
Chapter 9. Unspeakable Acts (1991) – Liz Kelly
Chapter 10. The Portable Cage: Women and Fundamentalism (1990) – Dena Attar
Chapter 11. Difference is not All that Counts (1999) – Purna Sen

Part 3. Sexuality

Chapter 12. Sex and Danger: Feminism and AIDS (1987) – Sara Scott
Chapter 13. Queer Straits (1993) – Julia Parnaby
Chapter 14. From Sexual Politics to Body Politics (1994) – Susanne Kappeler
Chapter 15. Straight Talking (1995) – Stevi Jackson

Part 4. Theory

Chapter 16. The Desire for Freud: Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1983) – Stevi Jackson
Chapter 17. The Liberal Organ: Porn in The Guardian (1985) – Debbie Cameron and Liz Frazer
Chapter 18. The Amazing Deconstructing Woman (1992) – Stevi Jackson
Chapter 19. Back to Nature (1997) – Debbie Cameron

Part 5. History

Chapter 20. Mothers of Invention (1985) – Rachel Hasted
Chapter 21. You’re a Dyke, Angela! (1987) – Rosemary Auchmuty
Chapter 22. Writing Our Own History: Storming the Wimpy Bars (1983) – Sara Scott and Lilian Mohin
Chapter 23. Taking on the Dinosaurs (1997) – Liz Kelly and Monica McWilliams
Chapter 24. Dispatches from the Front Line (1998) – Sarah Maguire

Part 6. Culture

Chapter 25. 12 Steps to Heaven (1989) – Cath Jackson
Chapter 26. Men of Tin (1991) – Sigrid Rausing
Chapter 27. Bad Apple (1994) – Joan Scanlon and Julia Swindells
Chapter 28. Ignorance is Bliss when you’re Just Seventeen (1996) – Stevi Jackson
Chapter 29. Housewives’ Choice? (2001) – Delilah Campbell
Chapter 30. It’s Life, Jim… but Not as We Know It (2001) – Carol Morley