Being feminist

Government and Opposition

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 442-463

  Lister, Ruth ^a  

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EID: 27844441734     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2005.00159.x     Document Type: Review

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2. The British Women's Liberation Movement adopted six demands, the fifth of which was for legal and financial independence.
3. When we finally disbanded, exhausted from the hard work of campaigning, I joined some other women in a women's group that met regularly to talk about political and personal issues. The group was an anchor in our lives and we still meet for reunion dinners when we debate the personal and the political as animatedly as ever.
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