Historicising the Women's Liberation Movement. Issue 5 (2nd September 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bruley, Sue; Forster, Laurel
• Is Part Of: Women's history review. Volume 25:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 697
• Page End: 700
• Publication Date: 2016-09-02
• Subjects: Women -- History -- Periodicals; 305.4
• DOI: 10.1080/09612025.2015.1132872
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0961-2025

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Women's Liberation Movement of the late 1960s, 1970s and 1980s emerged out of a set of economic and social circumstances where women collected together in disparate groups and contexts to express their dissatisfaction with their role and position in society. Through consciousness-raising and activism women raised their voices, profiles and visibility. This important moment of women's history is revisited in this collection of essays, which look afresh at the diversity of the movement and ways in which we might historicise the feminism of the time.