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‘We wanted women to feel their power’
Last weekend Woman’s Place UK and UCL Women’s Liberation Special Interest Group held a high-profile conference in central London exploring issues of education and women’s rights. IAN McNEE reports
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ON THE eve of the pandemic Woman’s Place UK (WPUK) and the UCL Women’s Liberation Special Interest Group (WLSIG) held an ambitious conference, Women’s Liberation 2020, at UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE), recalling the 50th anniversary of the historic British Women’s Liberation Movement conference held at Ruskin College in 1970.
Holly Smith of the WLSIG and a key organiser of both Women’s Liberation 2020 and last Saturday’s Education for Women’s Liberation conference (also at UCL’s IOE) recalls that there was a lot of pressure from some staff and students at UCL to cancel the event in 2020.
Three years later and while the world has changed in many ways and the 2023 conference now has institutional support from UCL, it has not become uncontroversial.
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