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Socialist Woman Vol. 6, No. 4, October 1978 · pp. 5-6 of the scan · 223 words

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M-Who's consciousness?

Q-Ours, It's when very small groups meet and start talking about their personal problems and what happens is that women who've been isolated who go around thinking that it's all their fault that their lives are shirtythey meet other women and discover that everyone has the same problems and that those problems are caused by the structures of society so they begin to see that they don't have to be dependent on men, that they can develop as human beings-and some of them begin to think that it's worth struggling to change society. Would you think that black women would be in a similar situation to that? M- Yes, but that wouldn't be their priority because they've got growing kids.

K-And they are already going out, having both family responsiblities and a job without a man-so that problem that they won't have:

confidence to go out and do things, I don't think they have that.

O-And there's a general difference between middle class people and Friday October 27 Speakers from Ireland, Italy and Puerta Rica Friday December 4 Speakers include Black woman militant from USA 7.30pm at the University of London Union, Malet St., W1.

A woman's right to contraception and abortion No forced sterilisation

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THEY UCLEA FREEDOM FOR BLACK YOUTHS AND OTHERS FROM SUS BETTER TREATMENT

← FEMINISTS IN ACTION United Black Action GroupSCRAP SU →

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