Memories tagged with "Revolutionary feminists"
Combating pornography and violence
?We (the revolutionary feminist group) were involved with WAVAW (Women Against Violence Against Women) and the anti-pornography stuff. We were always very active in the marches against violence against women; we marched to and invaded a couple of por...
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...
Fissures at the Birmingham WLM Day Conferences
Birmingham Women's Liberation Day Conferences were held regularly at Tindal Street School, Balsall Heath. ?There was a lot of paranoia at the time, but it was interesting. I remember the one conference where we were saying that the local Women's Libe...
Getting involved in the women's movement
?I entered the Women's Liberation Movement and got to know people because we went on demos. People find it very hard to understand the Women's Liberation Movement because you didn?t join, you didn?t have a card, you didn?t have membership, you just w...
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 feminist le...
Thatcherism negated need for extremism in feminism
?Since the 1980s the whole political landscape has shifted so massively, it?s broadened out a lot, the changes are quite positive, it?s a kind of post-modernism thing. We (revolutionary feminists) were on the extremes, and I thought the extreme plays...
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. ...
Working with men in the NUT
"My emphasis was on NUT (National Union of Teachers) politics as much as anything because by then I was well into the NUT which made me enemies in the Women's Liberation Movement because radical revolutionary feminists believe that you shouldn?t have...