Three women: acting organst eit spare Socialist Challenge 9 October 1980 thought Women's Voice was, appearance, copying Rib too closely. Partly 1 think we should be flattered if other ma Cavne copy our though of course there is a pro. biem it what another magazine is trying to suggesi is a similariapproach and content when this isn't the case.
Women's more onerter i wonlcl palu work, wuelcas we walll to look at women's lives in their entirety; to look as much women at home, at sexuality, presenting wonter media HOLTS who go out to work.
Do you think you could be accused of going the other way though, oT naving too much about nealtn, CHeGUILUTe and not enough about women who do go out to work?
All women work — not just at spare style, Events such much setting up of women's retuge for tereo women lntsis, tnepassing of the Equal Pay and Sex SNLS the National Front at its most visible in 1977; and the revolution in lran are recorded.
So. too. are events ••ce nio as a macazuic. becoming a collective in sex- 1973; being •oscenes in ducing special issues - a as the visual issue the first schools inasco, one tueo bat- with fiction, poetry, and articles writing in 1980.
The exmioition shows how Spare Rib ap lu asaulot proaches money. left and the liberation how Spare Rib attempts those though ho women concerned with exhibition the Cockpit banned in Princeton St, being London WCI. 1977; 30 Octobei TTOW December, 10am-8pm.
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Holborn, It to abOl Benn's view on feminism and the women's movement.
Benn spoke at the Abortion Cam, urging women tor u theo e ste work ers , he emphasised that ODOUI Party was 'umbrella organisation' that incorporate many strands of opinion including What do you think the should be bet the women s move now and in the future? I think this does raise huge proBecause the far left Britain, me quite important that feminists take the decisior to work around left Labour Party concerns and that woulo mean injecting into it a feminist anlaysis on questions such as spare the women's movement subsuming itself to the _Labou Party the concept of autonomv is too •strong Iol that; the women's movement is too diverse and the Labour Party is too obviously lacking in its consideration of feminism for any kind of mass alliance to be made.
But isn't there a case for arguing that the women's movement in its old form faces kind .crisis National conferences don't occul ally more. Feminist literature is very popular but that doesn't mean that lots of women are actively cam paigning as they used to. kind of passive feminism seems to exist.
Feminism has spread its concernemn comav cecOs. Du the movement has lost some of its identity. Some older women in the movement seem a little nostalgic for the past, but Rib POGETHER
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