Week Eight (13 March, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 19-20
Supplementary: Sara Ahmed, ‘A Killjoy Manifesto’ (2017)

Week Seven (6 March, Lecture Room VII)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 17-18
Supplementary: Frances M. Beal, ‘Double Jeopardy: To be Black and Female’ in Black Women’s Manifesto (1969)

Week Six (27 February, Lecture Room VII)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 15-16
Supplementary: Valerie Solanas, ‘SCUM Manifesto’ (1967)

Week Five (20 February, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 13-14
Supplementary: Mark Fisher, ‘Good For Nothing’ (2014); Johanna Hedva, ‘Sick Woman Theory’ (2022)

Week Five (20 February, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 13-14
Supplementary: Mark Fisher, ‘Good For Nothing’ (2014); Johanna Hedva, ‘Sick Woman Theory’ (2022)

Week Three (6 February, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 7-9
Supplementary: Mirta Vidal, ‘Chicanas Speak Out, Women: New Voice of La Raza’ (1971)

Week Two (30 January), Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 4-6
Supplementary: Kathie Sarahchild, ‘Consciousness Raising: A Radical Weapon’ (1968); Sarachild ‘A Program for Feminist “Consciousness Raising”’ in Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation (1970)

Week One (23 January, Old Library)
Primary: Marge Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, Chapters 1-3
Supplementary: Piercy, ‘Woman on the Edge of Time, 40 years on: “Hope is the engine for imagining utopia”’, The Guardian (2016); Carol Hanisch, ‘The Personal Is Political’ in Notes from the Second Year: Women’s Liberation

The talk explores what mistakes were made with regard to the semi-periphery by focusing on two pivotal countries that were mostly left out of the liberal international order (LIO) in the 1990s even though they sought to belong: Russia and Turkey. The LIO never settled on a consistent policy regarding their incorporation. Halfway recognition—or alternating between inclusion and exclusion—is even worse than aloofness or full alienation because it first creates expectations and then creates resentment when those expectations are not met.