This week as part of Woman's Hour 60th anniversary we're talking about Second Wave Feminism in the 1970's - did the hardliners tarnish things for the rest of the movement? What mistakes were made and what might have been done differently? What kind of legacy has it left the women's movement?
No movement escapes without any criticism, even from within, and there are those who did feel it was going in a direction that was not for them. That is not to say they were right or the movement was wrong. We simply want to hear from women from both sides - those who felt radicalism was the way to achieve maximum rights for women and those who also passionately agreed with the fight for equality but who might have different views on what equality should mean and how it should be achieved.
Beatrix Campbell, feminist academic and writer and journalist, Minette Marrin join Jenni in the studio. |
