Journals

• Catcall

• Images of Women Newsletter, London

• Lesbian Teachers Newsletter, Nottingham

• Out of the Pumpkin Shell, Birmingham

• Scarlet Women, Tyne & Wear

• Women Craft

• Women Speaking, London

Bradford / Leeds

• Future Directions for the WLM in Leeds Conference, Leeds, March.

“…for all women in Leeds interested in the women’s movement. Previous to that the movement had become very fragmented and a lot of groups had folded […] It was hoped that it would revive Women’s activities […] The main thing that emerged from the conference was the need for a Women’s centre, and in July a house was acquired for this purpose.” (Leeds Big Flame 1976).

• Leeds groups:
Discussion group, Leeds Lesbians, Leeds GLF, Socialist Women’s Action Group, Sex Equality Group. Sex Discrimination Group:

“This was set up after the all Leeds conferences in March, to help women involved in cases of discrimination and to give publicity to these issues.” (Leeds Big Flame 1976).

• Leeds University Women’s Action Group

• Women’s Festival Feminist Literature Review Distribution Network, Leeds.

• Defend Juanita Greening campaign.
Juanita Greening was charged with murdering an abusive husband. After the campaign she is given a two year suspended sentence.

• Bradford campaigns against the National Front (NF).
The NF were then deciding whether to move their headquarters to Bradford. This move was not accomplished.

• Bradford holds an anti-Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) rally as SPUC holds an anti-choice rally.

• Women’s Research and Resources Centre (WRRC) summer school, Bradford University

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External sites cited on these pages:

~ Airs, Carole (1980) Dykes in the Granite City, Gay Left News, Vol 10, pp. 22-23
~ Anderson, Elizabeth Garret – bio, from Spartacus Educational
~ Brief history of Equal pay strikeat Trico-Folberth factory, from Trades Union Congress (TUC)
~ La Leche League
~ Lesbian Left Group
~ Northern Irish Women’s Aid
~ Scottish Women’s Aid
~ Welsh Women’s Aid
~ Women Under Apartheid
~ Women’s Aid Federatio [England] (WAF[E])
~ Women’s Media and Action Group

Additional external sites of interest:

~ Thompson, Denise (1990) Theory and Its Difficulties

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