Women's Liberation Movement

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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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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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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" 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

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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'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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Now: Women's Studies International Forum

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"Set up in May '78 as a successor to the Scottish Women's Liberation Journal. Quarterly publication, printed, circulation 1,000- to be increased. Distributed: PDC, bookshops, subs, women's centres, sales at meetings etc. available to men. ₤150 for an average issue, self financing and supplemented by fund raising. 6/7 women work on the paper. Publication is aimed at women in Scotland and sympathetic to men. Hopes to promote debate on all issues concerning women in Scotland.

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"Set up in August '78, monthly paper. Circulation 250-500. Distribution: around pubs, door to door on estates, and in the local wholefood shop. Self financing n/l, costs: ₤8 an issue. 5 women work on the N/L, and the collective is open, and women are welcome to their monthly meetings. Aimed at any woman, and lets women know what's going on. Material from the collective plus other women, and they sometimes reprint an article.

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