by howl-team | Dec 12, 2024 | 1960s, 1973, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups, Publishing, Women at work
By Miriam E. David I spent the year 1972-3 in Cambridge, Massachusetts at the Harvard Graduate School for Education as a researcher. I had been in London for the previous six years (1966-1972), apart from three months in Israel from June to September 1967. In London,...
by howl-team | Dec 10, 2024 | 1960s, 1970s, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Laws, Relationships, sex, family
By Sona Osman In this piece of writing I would like to explain the circumstances and life experiences which led me to a feminist way of thinking which has driven most of my life and has propelled me into a life rich of adventures and experiences. Sue O’Sullivan has...
by howl-team | Dec 10, 2024 | 1971, Groups, Laws, Relationships, sex, family, Womem at work
By Frankie Green Enthusiasm combined with critical thinking – what more could we ask of ourselves? – Rosa Luxemburg In 1971, I became involved in Women’s Liberation and London’s Gay Liberation Front. Islington was significant in our lives: GLF’s office, Peace...
by howl-team | Nov 17, 2024 | First memories of getting involved, Groups, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family
Lee Comer I wrote The Myth of Motherhood to counter the prevailing mythology that mothers who went out to work instead of staying home out of sight to care for their children were responsible for every ill in society. It was published in Spokesman Journal in 1971. I...
by howl-team | Jul 25, 2024 | 1990’s, 2000+, campaigns, Culture, Groups
Judith Suissa The idea for Women in Black emerged in Jerusalem in 1988, in the shadow of the First Intifada. What had started with stone-throwing in the Occupied Territories had escalated and spread and, as usual in the lives of Israelis and Palestinians, fear mingled...
