SAYING WHAT WE WANT: WOMEN'S DEMANS IN THE FEMINIST SEVENTIES AND NOW

by Zoë Fairbairns
pamphlet designed by Hilary Kay Doran, cover from an image designed by Esperanza Miyake.

Ordering details:
published 2002; 32 pages; paperback; ISBN 0-9536585-3-8; £1.

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Contents

Ali Neilson
Preface

Zoë Fairbairns
Saying What We Want: Women's Liberation and the Seven Demands

Helen Graham
Postscript

includes:
* lots of space to write your own demands
* an invitation to visit and contribute to the Women Demand web site


'Saying that you want something - demanding it - does not necessarily mean that you will get it, but not saying what you want more or less guarantees that you will not get it.'
Zoë Fairbairns


Saying What We Want: Women's Demands in the Feminist Seventies and Now looks back to the 1970s in order to look forward. In thinking about the demands of the feminist past we challenge women to make present-day demands - once again its time to ask political questions and to 'say what we want', and you are invited to write your demands in the pamphlet, and to email your demands to demands@feminist-seventies.net for possible inclusion on the Women Demand web site.

In the key central article, Zoë Fairbairns looks back at the seven demands created by the Women's Liberation Movement at national conferences held throughout the 1970s. These demands ranged from equality in the workplace and in education, through sexual and reproductive freedoms, to legal and financial independence and an end to male violence. In remembering her involvement in the WLM, Zoë argues that the Seven Demands were crucial - not only in terms of 'what it meant to call yourself a feminist' but also as a rally point and as an inspiration for 'possible directions for feminist political creativity'.