Social Context / Legislation

Juliet Mitchell's anti-university course

MATRIMONIAL PROCEEDINGS AND PROPERTY ACT guarantees the wife a share of the family assets on dissolution of the marriage, based on her labour as either housewife or wage earner.

DIVORCE REFORM ACT makes irretrievable breakdown of the marriage the only grounds for divorce, and automatically grants divorce after five years of separation.

Conferences

In 1969, after an informal meeting of a group in Oxford, plans are made for an Oxford conference during February 1970. (Rowbotham 1972: 96)

Organisations / Campaigns

WOMEN'S LIBERATION WORKSHOP (WLW), London.

"After the Revolutionary Festival at Essex University, various groups of women in local areas around Britain begin to organise themselves, setting up a network of communication. Five Women's Liberation (WL) groups in Greater London Tufnell Park, Peckham Rye, Notting Hill, Belsize Lane and Islington begin the Women's Liberation Workshop. They began Shrew and created a manifesto in 1970." (Rowbotham 1972)

EQUAL PAY DEMONSTRATION (London) and rally in Trafalgar Square.

Demonstrations against the Festival of London stores, using street theatre.

Demonstrations against the MISS WORLD pageant, November 20

Journals

Shrew

Socialist Woman

Bradford / Leeds

BRADFORD SOCIALIST WOMEN'S ACTION GROUP meeting by this time.