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"On Not Narrating the History of Feminism and Film" poses two questions: What happened to women in the early silent film industries, and why don't we know about them? While the author and others have addressed the first question elsewhere at recent international conferences and in publication, the second remains largely unanswered and is taken up here. It is specific to the field of feminism and film and media studies, where in the 1970s moment of feminist film theory, the powerful paradigm of "no women" or woman as "absent" could be taken as either theoretical or empirical. The question arises as to how to write a narrative account given earlier prohibitions against narrative and empirical work, even when that very kind of work has discovered evidence of women working in significant roles in early film industries worldwide.

REVIEWED BOOK: LEWIS, H.: Problémové ženy. Dejiny feminizmu v 11 bojoch. [Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights]. N Press, s. r. o. Bratislava, 2021. 374 s. ISBN 9788082300249.

Meg Luxton's article in this issue of SPE, 'Marxist Feminism and Anticapitalism: Reclaiming Our History, Reanimating Our Politics,' and her recent essay written with Joan Sangster in The Socialist Register are among a spate of recent articles and books engaging with questions of feminist historiography. In particular, the critical response to Nancy Fraser's 2013 book Fortunes of Feminism: From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis and Hester Eisenstein's 2009 book Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use Women's Labor and Ideas to Exploit the World manifests a renewed interest in the way that Marxist currents have been remembered or forgotten in accounts of feminism's successes and shortcomings. In the current piece, Luxton undertakes what she calls the 're-appropriation of our history,' reincorporating into the narrative of feminism's trajectory the strands of the movement that view capitalism as intrinsically incompatible with feminist goals and principles. Adapted from the source document.

The suffragettes are dead. Long live the suffragettes! As part of the Wonder Woman Radical Manchester events celebrating International Women's Day, the one-day conference Suffragette Legacy brought together academics, artists, campaigners and activists to present and speak about how their work is affected by the suffragette legacy of feminism in 2014. The organisers welcomed academic papers, feminist theory, poetry and visual art to discuss this important, but often complex topic. It was found that the suffragette legacy is often hidden in private stories, in little-known projects, in art and

"On January 21, 2017, massive demonstrations in Washington DC and sister marches held in over 600 American cities drew crowds of over four million people. Popularly called "The Women's March," it became the largest single-day protest in American history. The feminism that shaped the consciousness of millions in 2017 had distinct roots in the 1990s. In They Didn't See Us Coming, historian Lisa Levenstein argues we have missed much of the past quarter century of the women's movement because the conventional wisdom is that the '90s was the moment when the movement splintered into competing factions. But by showcasing voices and stories long overlooked by popular culture and scholars, They Didn't See Us Coming shows that this decade was actually a time of intense and international coalition building. This activism centered around the growing influence of women of color, women with disabilities, women from the global South, and people of ranging gender expressions and identities. Together, they built a movement from the margins. Exclusion sparked action. Moments like the 1995 Beijing Women's Conference, whose major players included Betty Friedan and Bella Abzug and where Hillary Clinton famously declared, "Women's rights are human rights," were also stages for less-remembered but no less important calls to action. Wheelchair riders staged a "crawl in" protest when a panel on disabilities was held on the third floor of a building with no elevator-a consciousness-raising moment that informed much of the work around disabilities for the remainder of the decade. Meanwhile, new tools like e-mail, listservs, and discussion boards brought people with common purpose into instant contact; activists working on campuses and in culture, like Riot Grrls and Guerilla Girls, organized in ad hoc and less visible ways, without figureheads but with clarity of purpose. All this work reveals a thriving (but changing) women's movement. A necessary and fresh understanding of a transformative period in the history of American and international feminism, They Didn't See Us Coming also offers an urgent road map for thinking about organizing today and continuing to build on the work of these extraordinary activists"--