Events tagged with "Socialist feminists"
Women's Liberation Conference 1978 Birmingham
The last ever national Women's Liberation Conference was held in Birmingham in April 1978 at Ladywood School. The motion to have a separate freestanding seventh demand of the Women's Liberation Movement, 'An end to discrimination against lesbians', w...
Memories tagged with "Socialist feminists"
Chaos and hostility at the WLM Conference, 1978
Betty: “Women’s Liberation Conferences at that point were annual conferences, the last one, was in Birmingham in 1978, at a school in Ladywood. Different women’s and lesbian groups took responsibility for certain things. The Socialist feminists were ...
Fighting at the Conference 1978
The Birmingham Women’s Liberation Conference 1978"The split happened in Birmingham at the Women's Liberation Conference between the radical revolutionary feminists, the dyke arm, and the socialist feminists, the political arm. One of the main beliefs...
I was a real lesbian
Realising she needed to meet more women, Mary joined a mixed straight/lesbian women's writing group, which met in Tindal Street and subsequently led to the formation of Tindal Press. She also mixed on the fringes of the womens' liberation movement...
Socialist feminists v revolutionary feminists
“We were fairly dismissive of socialist feminism but only politically, not personally, we all knew socialist feminists and I thought got on reasonably well with them, so it was a strange dichotomy. Jackie Atkins was a communist, socialist femi...
Women’s Liberation Conference 1978
“There was beginning to be a feeling that the Women's Liberation Movement was on a downward slope and everyone metaphorically threw things at each other at the National Women's Conference in Birmingham in 1978 which was the last national conference. ...