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 | 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 | Feb 27, 2026 | 1970s, Groups, Publishing, Women at work
By Barbara Ridley I cycled the three miles home from the hospital after my eight-hour evening shift and manoeuvred my bike into its slot in the hallway, before walking through the living room to get myself a cup of tea from the kitchen. I would have been wearing my...
by howl | Jan 28, 2026 | 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, First memories of getting involved, Publishing, Women at work
By Pat Caplan I read Betty Friedan’s book The Feminine Mystique when I was in Nepal in 1969. On return to UK in early 1970 it was clear that it spoke to me and my situation. Pregnant with my first child, highly educated but unemployed and seemingly unemployable (‘How...
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...
