Directed by documentary filmmaker Vanessa Engle, Women is a new series exploring the rise of feminism and its impact on the lives of contemporary ladyfolk. Part one focuses on some of the leading lights from the women's liberation movement in the 1960s and 1970s, a relatively recent period in history which, in this context, looks as remote as the dawn of creation. It's easy to forget that women were once regarded as second-class citizens tethered to an absurdly restrictive set of societal expectations. How we've moved on.
GINGER & ROSA (12A) Verdict: HHIII TWO young women living in London in the 1960s become involved in the anti-nuclear movement. Their paranoia is fuelled by the fact they were born when the first atomic bomb was being dropped on Japan.
It was all our yesterdays - all our gloriously bolshie, mouthy, defiant yesterdays. Broadcast on International Women's Day, BBC4's Women gave us the contemporary thoughts of a raft of seminal pioneers of the women's movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Some were physically bowed, but mentally unbloodied by the passage of time since they marched across streets and TV studios, wrote feminist pamphlets and novels, galvanised a generation and, literally, liberated them from the claustrophobia of 24/7 domesticity.
ART lovers are in for a treat when Middlesbrough's mima art gallery unveils four new exhibitions today. Based on Paper - The Marzona Collection is a major show from German museums, of more than 70 works, including collage, video, drawing and sculpture, from the 1960s and early 70s, a time of social upheaval, including the women's movement and anti- Vietnam War protests.
A RECENT survey of 3,400 women working in Britain has found that half have experienced sexual harassment at work including offensive sexist remarks and being made the butt of chauvinist jokes. The survey also revealed the extent of physical abuse faced by women at work. Four in 10 said they had been touched in a way that made them feel uncomfortable, while 27% had been kissed against their will. Only one in five women reported this foul abuse.
...The women's liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s made huge leaps forward for...
The 1960s were a time of great change: America mourned the assassination of John F Kennedy, the civil rights movement gained momentum and man took his first steps on the moon. For the 187 women machinists employed at Ford's Dagenham assembly plant in 1968, it was a decade when a single act of rebellion changed history.
I am afraid P Atkinson is preaching to the converted ("Supermarkets have erased a way of life", Western Daily Press Saturday). Ever since the 1960s we have seen the rise of the 'feminist' movement, which instead of releasing women from drudgery, has increased it. Women are expected to be career women as well as mothers today. The stay-athome mother is a thing of the past thanks to governments which have gradually cut the Family Tax Relief so supermarkets have filled a necessary gap when it comes to looking after the family.
THE 1960s were a time of great change: America mourned the assassination of John F Kennedy, the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum and man took his first steps on the moon. For the 187 women machinists employed at Ford's Dagenham assembly plant in 1968, it was a decade when a single act of rebellion changed history.
Feminism may no longer be the dirty word it was, but it's vital the movement's foundations are never forgotten. This new play from the boldly named Theatre Revolution probably isn't the most radical vehicle for such a notion, though it's a game enough look at the 1960s counter-culture as seen from the sofa by three very different women. It's 1969, Vicki is writing for the women's page of a London tabloid and lodging with the bohemian Vivien while being courted by Jack. Into their lives breezes Ursula, an Australian actress and Vietnam protester who buys into hippy ideals more than any of them.
EVEN the term Nollaig na mBan - Women's Little Christmas - suggests a sense of festive fun and seasonal magic. For traditionally on Nollaig na mBan - the customary celebratory day marked every January 6 - Irish women threw off their crossover aprons and donned their best tweed skirts and blouses for a day of well-deserved i n dulgence. And rightly so. For the previous 12 days of Christmas, these women had ensured that the warmth of the open hearth was instilled in the festive season, despite the relative privations of life at the time.
... sisters and the Irish Women's Liberation Movement, we no longer need a dedicated day to justify our ...Clare, who in the 1950s and 1960s ran a bakery business on Francis Street in Dublin'...
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