Women’s Liberation Now and Then by Sheila Jeffreys

A new wave of feminism is taking place and I never thought I would see one. I was involved in the women’s liberation movement (WLM) in London in the 1970s and 1980s before moving to Australia. Like all my sisters who continued to care about the WLM I experienced serious grief for a lost movement in the 1990s and particularly in the 2000s. It did seem that feminism would not rise again as all our women’s facilities disappeared, our discos, bookstores, publishers, women’s centres, bands. But then I was invited to speak at a radical feminist conference in London in 2012 and realised that a new wave of radical feminism was beginning to rise there.