Social Context / Legislation

The Benyon abortion bill proposes to ban all abortions after 12 weeks except where there is a grave threat to the mothers life, give notification of abortion to the patient's GP, deny abortion advice to girls under 16 except with parents present, restrict the charities that run clinics, and give police access to patient's records from centres and clinics.

The Housing (Homeless Persons) Act recognises battered women as homeless and prioritises women for re-housing if they are classed as 'old age,' are pregnant, have dependent children, or are classed as disabled.

Conferences

National

National Women's Liberation Movement Conference, London
Issues: rape and other forms of violence against women, classism in the WLM, lesbians and child custody, autonomy and separatism, and campaigns such as Women Against Racism and Fascism. 2,500 to 3,000 women attend. "The Need for Revolutionary Feminism" by Sheila Jeffreys (Scarlet Women Five:10) is presented in a workshop. At the end of the conference, many women leave calling themselves Revolutionary Feminists.

"It was massive [...] it was the first time that there was a women's band, a proper women's disco, and we didn't take our clothes off, and that was the end of that, and it was into a new phase which I think was a shame, actually." (Garthwaite, OHP Interview No. 7)

"The present day feminist movement for the liberation of women in this country is of late referred to as the Women's movement' and the words liberation, feminism, and radical, are more and more omitted [...] by allowing the moderates amongst us to formulate more acceptable 'requests' to replace our demands we are denying ourselves and our sisters the possibility of taking from men that which is ours by right [...] nothing will be given to us that is worth taking." (Dwek 1977: 3)

Scottish National Women's Liberation Conference, Aberdeen (1)
Issues: lesbianism and heterosexuality, language, the fifth demand.

Scottish National Women's Liberation Conference, St. Andrews (2)

Welsh Women's Conference

Regional

Midlands Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Leicester (1)

Midlands Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Nottingham (2)

South West Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Bath (1)

South West Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Bridgwater

South West Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Exeter (2)

Yorkshire Regional Women's Liberation Conference, Bradford

Socialist Feminist

The Crisis: Women in the Home and in Employment, Socialist Feminist Conference, Birmingham

(Second) East Anglia Regional Socialist Feminist Conference, Colchester

European Socialist Feminist Conference, Paris

European Socialist Feminist Conference, Amsterdam

Marxism and Feminism (Socialist Women's Action Group), Leeds

Midlands Socialist Feminist Conference: 'Feminism, Sexuality and Abortion', Coventry

Midlands Region Socialist Feminist Conference against Racism and Fascism, Birmingham

National Socialist Feminist Conference, Norwich

Northeast Scotland Regional Women and Socialism Conference, Aberdeen

North West Feminist Socialist Conference, Manchester

Socialist Feminist Conference, Edinburgh

Yorkshire Regional Socialist Feminist Conference, Leeds

Radical / Revolutionary Feminist

Revolutionary/Radical Feminist Conference, Edinburgh:
`Towards a Radical Theory of Revolution'

Sexuality / Sexual Politics

Committee for Homosexual Equality (CHE) Women out of CHE Conference, London

Feminism/Sexuality and Abortion Conference, Leamington Spa

National Association of Gay Women Conference, Nottingham

National Conference of Lesbians on Telephone Services, Bristol (1)

National Conference of Lesbians on Telephone Services, Wick Court (2)

Scottish Lesbian Conference, Edinburgh

Sixth Demand, Midlands, Conference, Nottingham

Violence Against Women

WAF(E) National Conference, Leicester

WAF(E) National Conference, London

Scottish Women's Aid Conference, Stirling

Yorkshire Region Workshop on Violence Against Women: Towards a Seventh Demand, York

Workplace Issues

Equal Pay Act One Year On Conference, Cambridge

Jobs for Girls the Problems of Women and Employment, Colchester

Minority Women in Employment (National Assembly of Women), London

Women in Construction, London

Women in Manual Trades, Leeds

Women in Manual Trades Conference, Sheffield

Women Political Scientists Conference, London

Women and Work 1977, London

Working women's charter National Conference, London

Reproductive Rights

Abortion and Feminism Conference, London

National Abortion Coalition National Conference, London

Yorkshire Regional NAC Conference, Sheffield

Other

Anarchy, London

Action Against Sexism in Education, Manchester

Feminism and Non Violence, London

Images of Women in the Media, London

Kent Women's Forum, Bromley

National Conference on Women's Centres, London (1)

National Conference on Women's Centres, York (2)

Northern Anarchist/feminist Conference, Leeds

Power and the Curriculum, Durham

Sex Role Stereotyping, Cardiff

Talking with Women Conference (Women and Education), Glasgow

Teaching Girls to be Women, Colchester

Teaching Girls to be Women Conference, Essex

Women and Fascism Conference, Brighton

Women's History/ Oral History Conference, Colchester

Women in Iran, London

Women and Ireland, London

Women, Ireland, and the Left, Liverpool

Women and Mental Health Conference, London

Women Print Conference, Camden

WomenPrint, Peckham

Women and Science, Brighton

Woman Spirit, Oxford