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have meetings.
Feminism means ladies, flaunt in front of men. as human beings achievements organised, I WAS in hospital having my second baby when I read a report of the first public meeting of the organisation which was to take the call for equal pay on to Britain's streets.
It was October 1968. The organisation had a mouthful of a name the National Joint Action Campaign Committee for Women's Equal Rights.
Two hundred people attended which was held at commons. among Ine nity wao volunteered the first to strike for equal pay.
NJACCWER CalllSocialist Challenge AN indication of the breadth of the women's movement a dozen years after it surfaced in Alison Agnew, aged 10, says: 'When I first became a feminist I thought that having a Why do we have to be So l asked a few girls if they could become rights women that They class themselves - from a report in Spare Rib.
and weaknesses, how it has and what is happening now. She records the rise and fall of the first contemporary organisation to raise women's issue.
paign's initials, at least, were just aboul pronounceadle was to De my first experience of organising on women's rights.
I had been involved in politics since I was 14, when I joined the Youth, parents always been a enmist. one Keen That my sister lessa ang should have careers of our and not be dependent on getting with the campaign as soon as ] was ormy reet.
It was rrea Blake. a distric official of the National Union Vehicle Builders (no TGWU) who'd had the starun une camoan olowing treasurer secretary Dor Lane Audrey member who had 6 November 1980 Page 12
Piche, sculptor and member of the 1980 Arts Awards Panel.
opportunity to settle down and to produce children, These statements 'WOMEN don't have enough depth to be artists' - Roland I am quite sure the vitality of a great many women students derives from frustrated maternity; most of these, on finding the longer experience a degree of passionate discontent sufficient to drive them towards the labour of creation in other ways — Reg Butler, ex-head of sculpture at the Slade art school.
sonal experience for women and many themes of the exCouncil hibition will be TerrinISTS.
will no men as vulnerable and dependent. In Cuddles she shows how woman's comtort is more important In the end than a man's physical photographs familiar to powder women, like genitals.
chose to pali emotional of scantily attired men of all ages wearing BOlO washing Bút teeth Smile again, but this time relationship turns. out to be a grown up man in cap and tie who bite her nipple hard feminist's must have clenched when they stopped in front of study of the between male doctors and women patients; it was a little too close to queline Moreau's attack on religious patriarchy; Ana Maria Pacheco's identifica ion or torture will a maic figure in her sculpture Some Exercise of Power. and suf Coe's collages on political violence, rape, and fascism.
On the whole the exhibition struck a balance between images of men full of pathos and vulnerability and those
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LEONORA LLOYD contributes to a series on the history of the women's movement: its