For #LGBTHistoryMonth I will be posting a #womaninhistory every day. Today is Anne Lister an English landowner, business woman, intrepid traveller, mountaineer and diarist from Halifax, West Yorkshire who is sometimes described as ‘the first modern lesbian’. Lister was renowned for only dressing in dark clothing and rebelling against the strict gender stereotypes of her …
Alix Kates Shulman is a feminist, political activist and writer of fiction, memoirs, and essays. Shulman was one of the early radical activists of second-wave feminism and In 1967 she joined the new Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM), becoming a member of the early groups New York Radical Women, Redstockings, WITCH, and New York Radical Feminists. …
Sheila Rowbotham is an English theorist and historian of feminism and radical social movements. In 1969 she published her influential pamphlet “Women’s Liberation and the New Politics” in which she set out her theory of socialist feminism, arguing that women’s liberation can only be achieved by working to end both the economic and cultural sources …