Trouble and Strife: A radical feminist magazine. No. 7

Norwich: Trouble and Strife, 1985. Stiff card wrappers. Very Good. Side-stapled booklet (25 x 21cm), pp. 52 + b/w illustrations. Green card wrappers, printed in black. Staples rusty internally, occasional fox spots and creasing, else, clean. Four-page Trouble and Strife Index (issues 4-6) printed on yellow paper at centre. Very good A pleasing copy of the Winter 1985 issue of the long-running radical feminist magazine, featuring Cath Jackson's review of Susie Orbach's Fat is a Feminist Issue (see item ? for our feminist-clad copy of the controversial first Hamlyn edition). Trouble and Strife was an independent radical feminist magazine published in Britain between 1983 and 2002. Its masthead featured the following legend, outlining its political position: "Trouble and Strife is cockney rhyming slang for wife. We chose this name because it acknowledges the reality of conflict in relations between women and men. As radical feminists, our politics come directly from this tension between men's power and women's resistance." The magazine was collectively produced by Lynn Alderson, Dena Atttar, Cath Jackson, Liz Kelly, Sophie Laws, Diana Leonard, Judy Stevens and Ruth Wallsgrove. Articles include, Liz Kelly's 'Feminists v Feminists � legislating against porn in the USA; Dorothy Francis' Interview with Jean Breeze, dub poet; and, Amanda Hayman's Feminist in Japan: 3 Tokyo groups'. The Trouble and Strife Reader was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2009, edited by Deborah Cameron and Joan Scanlon.