Social Context / Legislation |
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Immigration
Act 1971: makes it harder for immigrant
women to keep their children in the UK,
or to send for them once settled. (Full
Act as PDF)
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Conferences |
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National |
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NATIONAL WOMEN'S LIBERATION
MOVEMENT CONFERENCE, Skegness.
The first four demands of the WLM are passed
(See Appendix 1
for full list):
1. Equal Pay
2. Equal Educational and Job Opportunities
3. Free Contraception and Abortion on Demand
4. Free 24 hour Nurseries.
The WNCC is voted out of existence, in
favour of local and regional conferences
and organisation.
"The WNCC was abolished
because it had signally failed to keep
in touch with the politics of the developing
movement, and prepared a conference, the
terms of which the majority at the conference
rejected." (Delmar
1973: 8-9)
"To start off with,
we were sitting in a tiered, lecture theatre
type of place and on the platform there
were the Union of Women for Liberation
with their banner with a fist[...] and
they were reading out prepared papers
which were dreary beyond belief [...]
about half the conference got up and walked
out [ ... ] And then the Union for Women's
Liberation carried on as if nothing had
happened ... they refused to leave so
women snatched the microphone. Finally
they were routed. (Garthwaite, OHP Interview
No. 7)
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Organisations / Campaigns
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NIGHTCLEANERS'
CAMPAIGN (WLW), London
A documentary, Nightcleaners
Part 1, was made by members of the
Berwick Street Collective (Marc Karlin,
Mary Kelly, James Scott and Humphry Trevelyan).
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UNION OF WOMEN FOR LIBERATION,
From the Maoist Women's Liberation Front,
which grew out of the Communist
Party of Great Britain (CP), Hempstead
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Women escaping from violence
stayed in the centre even though their
lease forbade it and the 'premises were
inadequate.' (Hanmer
1976).
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"The March, organised
by the WNCC, was the largest International
Women's Day event since the Suffragette
era, and made a big media splash. Quite
different form the macho male left demonstrations
of the time, it highlighted contemporary
feminists' major concerns: contraception
and abortion; our treatment as sex objects;
our invisible oppression as housewives.
Women carried washing lines holding bras,
bodices and corsets, while the Women's
Street Theatre Group acted out The First
Period, featuring a massive sanitary towel.
I was part of the cosmetics and slimming
routine troupe who brought up the end
of the march. directed by the late Buzz
Goodbody of the Royal Shakespeare Company,
we danced along a wind up gramophone playing
the 1950s hit "Keep Young and Beautiful/
It's Your Duty to be Beautiful ... If
you Want to be Loved." (Garthwaite,
OHP Interview No. 7)
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Protests against the discriminatory
practices practised in Wimpy
Bars, London |
Journals |
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Scarlet
Women, York |
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Libertarian Women's
Network Newsletter, Leeds  |
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Women's Struggle Notes,
Newcastle |
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External sites cited on this page:
Additional external sites of interest:
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Bolton
Women's Liberation Group |
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History
of Gay Pride from Lesbian Life at About.com |
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International
Women's Day - Global
register of yearly events |
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Johnston,
Claire (1975) - The
Nightcleaners (Part One): Rethinking Political Cinema.
(Review) Jump Cut, no. 12/13, 1976, pp. 55-56 (reprinted
from Spare Rib,
No. 40, Oct. 1975) |
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O'Sullivan,
Sue* (1982)
Passionate Beginnings: Ideological Politics 1969-72,
Feminist Review, No. 11, Sexuality (Summer, 1982),
pp. 70-86 |
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The
Nightcleaners, Part One listing from Lux
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