ABSTRACT

Although some women claim that we are in a post-feminist era, we have only to look at the demands of the first Women’s Liberation Conference, held at Ruskin College, Oxford, in 1970, to recognize that we are still far from having achieved equality. The 1970 conference demanded equal pay, twenty-four-hour childcare,1 free contraception and abortion on demand. Later, other demands were added-the right to determine one’s own sexuality; the rights of black women, including the right to determine their own demands autonomously; reproductive rights; and the right to education.