by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 3: Sexist Stereotyping in Books and Resources During the 1970s and 1980s across the country, groups looked at sexism in classrooms and in the resources being used. Many wrote about their classrooms and teaching. In 1982 The English Magazine...
by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey PART 2: Feminists in Education Fight Back – national and local campaigns. In the 1970s and 80s, there were an increasing number of local as well as national campaigning groups on the issue of gender and sexism that I was involved in, some at...
by howl | Jul 26, 2026 | campaigns, Conference, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Celia Burgess-Macey Part 1. Respect, pay and conditions-how I took the struggle for women’s liberation into my educational work. My own growing awareness on the changing political climate during the 1970s and 80s, affected my working life in several ways. Firstly,...
by howl | Jul 22, 2026 | Friendship, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Exploring My Lesbian Feminist Creativity In late 1978, after I learned I had cancer and underwent hard hitting but eventually successful treatment, Tierl Thompson and I decided we could no longer sustain our business running WRPM (Women’s Revolutions...
by howl | Jul 21, 2026 | campaigns, Culture, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family, Women at work
By Nicolle Freni Growing Up a Working-Class Young, Gay, Woman in Brooklyn You could say that being born into a poor, Italian American family in 1948 with typical immigrant problems and the Catholic religion determining a girl’s behaviour, led me straight to women’s...
by howl | Jul 16, 2026 | 1970s, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Relationships, sex, family
By Jenny Stroud, Brighton and Hove Women’s History Group I think even as a young girl, and a sporty one as well, that I knew innately there was something wrong with the balance of the world. This would have been in the late 1950s/early 1960s. I wasn’t allowed to play...
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 | 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 | Jan 9, 2026 | 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980s, 1981, campaigns, First memories of getting involved, Groups
Consciousness Raising Group with Essex University lake and tower blocks (Amber Djemal, Lynne Friedli and others) Amber Djemal Before arriving at Essex University, aged 18 in 1978, I had become aware of Feminism due to an action I had been involved in at school in...
by howl | Nov 18, 2025 | 1982, Culture, Groups, Publishing, Relationships, sex, family
By Jeanette Copperman The first feminist book I remember reading was Simone De Beauvoir’s The Second Sex when I think I was 13 or 14. I grew up in a strictly orthodox Jewish household and Shabbat (Saturday) was a day when you couldn’t write or shop or watch tv or...
