by howl | Aug 10, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
More original newsletter articles, introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth INTRODUCTION In 1967 abortion was made legal in the UK. This was challenged several times by anti-choice (pro-life) organisations like the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child...
by howl | Jul 29, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, Conference, Groups, Stories, Women at work
Original newsletter articles. Compiled and introduced by Joan Harries and Sheila Wentworth The North Staffs Women’s Action Group was correctly named – there was lots of action! Memories of the Group North Staffs Women’s Action Group/NSWA/NSWAG/Stoke Women’s Action...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | First memories of getting involved, Stories
Gaby Weiner (born 1944) As far as I can remember I’ve always been a feminist. Perhaps it was because I was an only child raised by a single mother and her sisters, and therefore had a strong sense of being valued as a person. And so being told that I couldn’t do...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, 1971, campaigns, Conference, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Irena Fick I first became involved in the women’s liberation movement (WLM) in 1969. I remember my first meeting, it was in Karen Slaney’s flat in Dartmouth Park Hill, North London. There were about ten women in the group then. There was a Canadian filmmaker,...
by howl | Jun 12, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Rejoining the Women’s Movement & Activism By Caroline New I left my WLM-dismissive Maoist group in 1980 and came back to the WLM, to find it fracturing around race and class. There were now working class and Black subgroups which denounced white middle-class...
by howl | Jun 12, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved
Durham-Bristol 1969-1980 By Caroline New I first came across the women’s movement in 1970. I was a graduate student, fancying myself a Marxist, and somebody told me about a protest at the Miss World beauty competition at the Albert Hall, London. I was so ignorant...
by howl | Apr 29, 2026 | Culture, First memories of getting involved, Stories, Women at work
By Carol Smith I was born in 1952, and was brought up Catholic. I went to a convent secondary school where the head nun was virtually a socialist feminist, albeit in a subtle sort of way! Perhaps she was an early liberation theologist? My mother was downtrodden and...
by howl | Apr 28, 2026 | Stories
by Judy Greenway In 2010, when I was in my sixties, I was interviewed for an undergraduate dissertation on the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. As my memory was better then than it is now, here is the more autobiographical part of that interview. I grew...
by howl | Jan 14, 2026 | Publishing, Relationships, sex, family
By Sue O’Sullivan In 2016 I was fed up with reports in the press about a revolutionary new discovery about the clitoris. I wrote the following newly edited article for the Older Feminist Newsletter.* I recently read some stories in the media heralding breakthrough...
by howl | Jan 14, 2026 | First memories of getting involved, Groups, Relationships, sex, family
By Sue O’Sullivan I was born in 1941 in the USA. I bled at age nine and my mom that morning, lying in bed beside my dad, said when I announced this, ‘Oh dear, I’m so sorry. You’re so young.’ I stuffed toilet paper in my pants and told no one for more than a year after...
