Complicated Sisterhood: negotiating socialist feminism in the second wave periodicals Red Rag and Scarlet Women

A talk by Bec Wonders, doctoral researcher, Glasgow School of Art, organised by UCL Women’s Liberation

The Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s and 1980s in the UK saw a surge in women’s publishing that generated a networked feminist communications circuit in the form of newsletters and magazines. These periodicals functioned as essential forums through which to develop and disagree on their political positions. The letters and editorials reveal that the internal debates and disagreements with which second wave feminists were grappling still remain contentious today. More information.