Sisterhood Is Powerful

"This was published in 1970 at the beginning of the Women’s Liberation Movement. It contained a variety of writing by key theoreticians and activists. Along with The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer and Kate Millett’s Sexual Politics which also appeared in 1970, these books were the rallying cry of the Women’s Liberation Movement and a call to activism in one’s personal and public life. It let us see that we weren’t alone. At the time we were speaking out from a slightly left-of-centre view. We were engaged in a variety of what now seems to be political work. For example, I worked at a free clinic giving pregnancy and birth control counselling. The Women’s Liberation Movement was very much involved around the issue of abortion. And I think that is partially a result of our own age group at the time and the Summer of Love."