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Feminist theorist and writer Sheila Rowbotham explores the legacy of Britain’s first national Women’s Liberation Movement conference, held in Oxford in 1970.

Feminist theorist and writer Sheila Rowbotham explores the legacy of Britain’s first national Women’s Liberation Movement conference, held in Oxford in 1970. "Most important of all," she recalls, "was the collective confidence, energy and strength that came from discovering there were several hundred of us...I floated through the weekend in a state of buoyant happiness."
Producer: Neil Koenig

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Mon 1 Apr 201913:45
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