ABSTRACT
This chapter takes up the idea of dreams and imagination as being at the centre of radical transformational change in relation to feminist practice in the local state, past and future. Feminists and researchers creating spaces for change Chasing the Dream. The Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) was inspired by similar dreams of transforming social relations both within domestic relations and in relation to the state. Competing utopias continue to impassion debate about the good society. They offer a resource and potential for developing practices to address intersectionality within the current context of equality practice within the local state in Great Britain, where single equality duties have been replaced by the generic duty. Femocracy, equal opportunities, managing diversity and gender mainstreaming were subsequently introduced as gendered strategies embedded within a vision of social democracy. Understanding of asymmetrical power relations was limited to individual actors and feminist networks who were, despite the GED, often marginalised from the formation and implementation of policy.
