Le Royaume-Uni à l'épreuve de la crise 1970-79
Women's Liberation
It is impossible to point to a “typical”
1970s activist for women’s liberation, such was the richness and variety of the
activity involved. Some worked in trade unions organizing women workers (See
Grunwick above), others organized inside the Labour party for policy change;
some concentrated on “consciousness raising groups”, underlining that “the personal
is political”, others were in revolutionary anticapitalist organizations like
the International Socialists; some concentrated on publishing books or
newspapers, others on “Reclaim the Night” marches or pressuring for funding for
rape crisis centres; some raised the slogan “wages for housework” others tried
to reduce the influence of body image on women’s perceptions of themselves, and
to encourage clothing and shoes which
respected women more than the high heels and skirts which were often being
imposed.[1]
[1] If one remembers that
this BBC documentary is not about a typical group of 1970s feminists, but about one kind of feminism among many, it
is useful to understand some of the debates which were around. You can find it here
Don't hesitate to convert the video to MP3 on a site like this one
so you can listen to it while riding your Chopper bike.
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