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Want to know where your nearest women' group is? need help with the project you're writing on women' legal rights?like to know about women' theatre, film or music groups? want to contact other lesbians? Want to know more about Women's Aid or feminist publications? If you do you can write to WIRES, the national information and co-ordination service of the WIRES has been running successfully for nearly three years now. It was set up after the 1975 National Women's Liberation Conference as a central point of contact in the Movement, so that all groups could report their activities and keep in touch with what other groups are doing, as well as enabling more isolated women to find out about the various campaigns, projects and research going on all over the country. Such a co-ordination network is vital in a movement as diverse as ours, which is made up of local groups, and where much of the activity and information would otherwise remain unknown except to those most closely involved. Our files are fairly wide now, with contact addresses relevant to almost every subject you'd be likely to need. But they also rely on you to write regular reports The fortnightly newsletter is a vital part of our work, with information, articles, reviews, debates, events, letters, and news from groups and campaigns. We'd like more women to write for the newsletter so that it can become a more lively reflection of the discussions going on in the movement. At present we take many of our articles from local newsletters, but we'd appreciate a wider indication of what other people see as important. WIRES is run by a collective of 5 women and by 6 monthly meetings where any woman can come along with new ideas, criticisms, and suggestions. We have only just taken over in York and are only beginning to grapple with the problems involved so we welcome as much feedback as possible from all sisters. We are financed almost entirely by subscriptions, and we hope groups will be able to raise money for donations so we don't have to spend too much of our energy on fundraising it's your paper too! Above all we need subscriptions-£6.00 p.a. for individuals (£4.00 if poor) and £12.00 p.a. for groups (which get sent 2 copies). We make a charge for adverts for groups not in the W.L.M. SUBSCRIBE and keep yourself in touch and WIRES alive! Women's Liberation Movement. and keep them fully up to date. WIRES
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To develop the theory of Women's Liberation and debate the To be a forum for work in progress and current research and debates in Women's Studies.
Articles planned for the first issues include:
War in the Nursery: childcare provision in World War II Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination: a pioneer study of the weaknesses of the Acts Female Sexuality in Fascist Ideology Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley"
Visual Art, Politics and the Women's Liberation Movement First issue January 1979.
Subscriptions (3 issues per year) £3.50 (individual), E10 (institutions) Overseas subscribers please add E1.
Send to: The Feminist Review (Subscriptions SW), 65 Manor Road, London N16.
Denise Riley Mandy Snell M.A. Macciocchi Helen Taylor Tricia Davis and Phil Goodall ACTED A SOCIALIST OPPOSTION FOR A UNIED REVOLUTIOHARY ORGANISAT
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eminist Devrew political perspectives and strategy of the movement.