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The birth of the Women's Liberation Movement

Overview:

A 'ready-made' search of our catalogueLink opens in a new window identifies some of the sources at the Modern Records Centre on second-wave feminism and women's liberation movements during the 1970s and 1980s, including newsletters, journals / 'zines, pamphlets and leaflets.

= This symbol after a link means that it links to catalogue descriptions of the documents (including the reference numbers which will help you to order up the original documents at the MRC).

= This symbol after a link means that it links to digitised copies of the documents.

Selected sources:

'Warwick Women's Liberation?', 1969Link opens in a new window

Short article in 'Campus' (student newspaper predecessor to 'The Boar'). It summarises the ideas of the women's liberation movement and advertises a talk on campus by Shelia Rowbotham. 'Campus' contains more articles and comment on the women's liberation movement including a longer follow-up article from 1969 - 'Path to freedom'Link opens in a new window - all issues have been digitisedLink opens in a new window and can be searched for keywords.

'Getting the vote doesn't cross the moat', 1972

Two part article on the women's liberation movement (including comment on its origins) by Veronica Beechey, published in the University of Warwick student newspaper 'The Warwick Boar'. Part 1Link opens in a new window and part 2Link opens in a new window are both available online.

'Notes on the history of the Women's Liberation movement', 1972Link opens in a new window

Article in 'Enough', journal of the Bristol Women's Liberation Movement. It provides a summary of the development of the movement in Britain between 1970-1972.

'Sisters and Workers: Ten Years of the Struggle for Women's Liberation and Socialism', 1980Link opens in a new window 

Socialist Workers' Party pamphlet by Anna Paczuska.

 

Illustration: 'Path to freedom'

Illustration to article on the Women's Liberation Movement in 'Campus', November 1969Link opens in a new window.