From 1983 to 2002, Trouble and Strife: The Radical Feminist Magazine was a distinctive voice in British feminism. It was the longest-surviving completely independent feminist periodical published in this period and it combined the intellectual depth of an academic journal with the accessibility, topicality and visual appeal of commercial feminist magazines. This is a collection of the best and most enduring articles published in the magazine during its 20-year life. It offers a unique historical record of an important strand of radical feminist debate, enabling old readers to revisit it and new readers to discover it.

"Childers makes clear that she made the journey at considerable emotional cost . . . It's that complicated awareness, a sense of loss mingled with a feeling of triumph, that makes Welfare Brat stick in the mind."—Columbus Dispatch

"Diski has fascinating—and entertaining—things to say about the differences between the ’60s generation and their parents ('we really didn’t make the distinction between work and recreation that shaped our parents’ daily existence'), drugs (eventually 'getting stoned stopped feeling like I was doing something'), the sexual revolution ('sex was a way of being polite to those who suggested it or who got into your bed'), communes ('sharing the washing-up and each other’s lovers' meant 'a terrible mess and a lot of anger') and the difference between America and her native Britain ('we had only a generational war to fight') . . . A sense of deep disappointment pervades The Sixties. Diski concludes that the decade produced little in the way of transcendent art—'the music, however, was undeniably as great as we thought it was'— and that, contrary to the slogan, frequently 'the personal was the personal.' Although she sees some lasting effects of the '60s, and especially of gay liberation, she concludes that 'wherever you look, over the past 40 years, nationalism and capitalism have triumphed,' and that 'most of us who had the good fortune to be part of the '60s are plain discouraged.' Still, [Diski] leaves you with plenty to think about, and wanting more."—Elsa Dixler, The New York Times Book Review