Women's Liberation Movement
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | Judith Kazantzis | JK
joined the women's movement as soon as she read about it, and was active in London during the 1970s as a member of the first Women's Liberation Workshop
, the Labour Party
, and... |
Timeline
7 September 1968
Feminist protesters disrupted the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA.
1969
A Revolutionary Festival at the University of Essex
resulted in the setting up all over Britain of Women's Liberation
Groups or Workshops; London alone had five.
1969-79
During this decade 117 towns and cities in Britain had at least one Women's Liberation
Movement group; many major centres had several.
27 February 1970
1971
A Maoist group based in Hertfordshire began publishing the Women's Liberation Union Newsletter.
1972
Karen Kollias
, Liz O'Sullivan
, and six other affiliates of the Washington, DC, Women's Liberation
organization founded the DC Rape Crisis Center
, which included a phone line providing callers with counselling and medical information.
1977
Women's Struggle, a bulletin of the Women's National Co-ordinating Committee
, ended publication from Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.
1978
The Feminist Archive
was formed to preserve documents of Women's Liberation
in Britain; founded at Shepton Mallet in Somerset, it later divided its material between two sites, Bristol and Bradford.
August 1980
The Red Rag, produced by a Marxist collective of the Women's Liberation Movement
in London, ended publication.