Social Context / Legislation

• The Benyon abortion bill proposes to ban all abortions after 12 weeks except where there is a grave threat to the mothers life, give notification of abortion to the patient’s GP, deny abortion advice to girls under 16 except with parents present, restrict the charities that run clinics, and give police access to patient’s records from centres and clinics.

• The Housing (Homeless Persons) Act recognises battered women as homeless and prioritises women for re-housing if they are classed as ‘old age,’ are pregnant, have dependent children, or are classed as disabled.

Conferences

National

~ National Women’s Liberation Movement Conference, London
Issues: rape and other forms of violence against women, classism in the WLM, lesbians and child custody, autonomy and separatism, and campaigns such as Women Against Racism and Fascism. 2,500 to 3,000 women attend. “The Need for Revolutionary Feminism” by Sheila Jeffreys(Scarlet Women Five:10) is presented in a workshop. At the end of the conference, many women leave calling themselves Revolutionary Feminists.

“It was massive […] it was the first time that there was a women’s band, a proper women’s disco, and we didn’t take our clothes off, and that was the end of that, and it was into a new phase which I think was a shame, actually.” (Garthwaite, OHP Interview No. 7)

“The present day feminist movement for the liberation of women in this country is of late referred to as the Women’s movement’ and the words liberation, feminism, and radical, are more and more omitted […] by allowing the moderates amongst us to formulate more acceptable ‘requests’ to replace our demands we are denying ourselves and our sisters the possibility of taking from men that which is ours by right […] nothing will be given to us that is worth taking.” (Dwek 1977: 3)

Scottish National Women’s Liberation Conference, Aberdeen (1)
Issues: lesbianism and heterosexuality, language, the fifth demand.

Scottish National Women’s Liberation Conference, St. Andrews (2).

Welsh Women’s Conference.

Regional

~ Midlands Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Leicester (1)

~ Midlands Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Nottingham (2)

~ South West Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Bath (1)

~ South West Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Bridgwater

~ South West Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Exeter (2)

~ Yorkshire Regional Women’s Liberation Conference, Bradford

Socialist Feminist

~ The Crisis: Women in the Home and in Employment, Socialist Feminist Conference, Birmingham

~ (Second) East Anglia Regional Socialist Feminist Conference, Colchester

~ European Socialist Feminist Conference, Paris 

~ European Socialist Feminist Conference, Amsterdam 

~ Marxism and Feminism (Socialist Women’s Action Group), Leeds

~ Midlands Socialist Feminist Conference: ‘Feminism, Sexuality and Abortion’, Coventry

~ Midlands Region Socialist Feminist Conference against Racism and Fascism, Birmingham

~ National Socialist Feminist Conference, Norwich

~ Northeast Scotland Regional Women and Socialism Conference, Aberdeen

~ North West Feminist Socialist Conference, Manchester

~ Socialist Feminist Conference, Edinburgh

~ Yorkshire Regional Socialist Feminist Conference, Leeds

Radical / Revolutionary Feminist

~ Revolutionary/Radical Feminist Conference, Edinburgh:
`Towards a Radical Theory of Revolution’

Sexuality / Sexual Politics

~ Committee for Homosexual Equality (CHE) Women out of CHE Conference, London

~ Feminism/Sexuality and Abortion Conference, Leamington Spa

~ National Association of Gay Women Conference, Nottingham

~ National Conference of Lesbians on Telephone Services, Bristol (1)

~ National Conference of Lesbians on Telephone Services, Wick Court (2)

~ Scottish Lesbian Conference, Edinburgh

~ Sixth Demand, Midlands, Conference, Nottingham

Violence Against Women

~ WAF(E) National Conference, Leicester

~ WAF(E) National Conference, London

~ Scottish Women’s Aid Conference, Stirling

~ Yorkshire Region Workshop on Violence Against Women: Towards a Seventh Demand, York

Workplace Issues

~ Equal Pay Act One Year On Conference, Cambridge

~ Jobs for Girls the Problems of Women and Employment, Colchester

~ Minority Women in Employment (National Assembly of Women), London

~ Women in Construction, London

~ Women in Manual Trades, Leeds

~ Women in Manual Trades Conference, Sheffield

~ Women Political Scientists Conference, London

~ Women and Work 1977, London

~ Working women’s charter National Conference, London

Reproductive Rights

~ Abortion and Feminism Conference, London

~ National Abortion Coalition National Conference, London

~ Yorkshire Regional NAC Conference, Sheffield

Other

~ Anarchy, London

~ Action Against Sexism in Education, Manchester

~ Feminism and Non Violence, London

~ Images of Women in the Media, London

~ Kent Women’s Forum, Bromley

~ National Conference on Women’s Centres, London (1)

~ National Conference on Women’s Centres, York (2)

~ Northern Anarchist/feminist Conference, Leeds

~ Power and the Curriculum, Durham

~ Sex Role Stereotyping, Cardiff

~ Talking with Women Conference (Women and Education), Glasgow

~ Teaching Girls to be Women, Colchester

~ Teaching Girls to be Women Conference, Essex 

~ Women and Fascism Conference, Brighton

~ Women’s History/ Oral History Conference, Colchester

~ Women in Iran, London

~ Women and Ireland, London

~ Women, Ireland, and the Left, Liverpool

~ Women and Mental Health Conference, London

~ Women Print Conference, Camden 

~ WomenPrint, Peckham

~ Women and Science, Brighton

~ Woman Spirit, Oxford

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