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Women's Liberation Movement

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Artmix: The advantage of a diversity of feminisms. Iza Kowalczyk, the editor of the net-magazine Artmix, in conversation with Rosa Reitsamer.

Topic: 
Art
Gender studies
Grassroots media in Europe
Women's Liberation Movement
Teaser Image: 

Please can you shortly introduce yourself?

Interviewee: 
Izabela Kowalczyk
Interviewer: 
Rosa Reitsamer
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The Lesbian Herstory Archives

Location

United States

The Lesbian Herstory Archives is home to the world's largest collection of materials by and about lesbians and their communities.

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Feminist Archive North

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United Kingdom

The Feminist Archive North (FAN) holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) from 1969 to the present. Topics covered by FAN include the women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against women.

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CWLU Herstory Project

Location

United States

What was the Chicago Women's Liberation Union?

Out of the upheavals of the 1960's came a group of Windy City women determined to challenge the suffocating male supremacy of the time. They joined the growing women's liberation movement and organized the Chicago Women's Liberation Union (CWLU) which touched the lives of thousands of women through its many organizing projects from 1969-1977.

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Redstockings Women's Liberation Archives for Action

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United States

Redstockings" was a name taken in 1969 by one of the founding women's liberation groups of the 1960's to represent the union of two traditions: the "bluestocking" label disparagingly pinned on feminists of earlier centuries--and "red" for revolution.

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Documents from the Women's Liberation Movement

Location

United States

Documents from the
Women's Liberation Movement

An On-line Archival Collection
Special Collections Library, Duke University

The materials in this on-line archival collection document various aspects of the Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Items range from radical theoretical writings to humourous plays to the minutes of an actual grassroots group.

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International Archives of the Second Wave of Feminism

Location

United States
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Saying What We Want: Women's Demands in the Feminist Seventies and Now (Pamphlet)

Location

United Kingdom

'Saying that you want something - demanding it - does not necessarily mean that you will get it, but not saying what you want more or less guarantees that you will not get it.'
Zoë Fairbairns

This pamphlet is a thought-provoking and accessible introduction to the Women's Liberation Movement in 1970s UK and provides a spring-board for thinking about women's lives now.

In assessing the demands of the feminist past we challenge women to make present-day demands - once again its time to ask political questions and to 'say what we want'.

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Sheba Feminist Publishers (1980-1994)

Location

United Kingdom

ABOUT SHEBA FEMINIST PRESS

Sheba Feminist Press was established in 1980 -- one of a handful
of small independent publishers born of the UK women's movement
during the 70s and early 80s. The new feminist presses turned
their backs on the high-modernist clique then firmly in control
of the British book scene, and looked instead at what that world
literally couldn't see: the writing of women who hadn't been to
Oxford or Cambridge, and who weren't necessarily white or
heterosexual or middle-class, and who didn't speak with the
polished vowels of Bloomsbury. The new

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Women's Studies International Forum (Journal) former: Women's Studies International Quarterly (1978-)

Location

London
United Kingdom
51° 30' 0.5472" N, 0° 7' 34.4496" W

Statement:
Women's Studies International Forum (formerly Women's Studies International Quarterly, established in 1978) is a bimonthly journal to aid the distribution and exchange of feminist research in the multidisciplinary, international area of women's studies and in feminist research in other disciplines. The policy of the journal is to establish a feminist forum for discussion and debate.

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