ABSTRACT
Throughout the twentieth century varieties of feminism coloured women’s thought and lives. Juliet Mitchell’s 1966 article in New Left Review is one of the seminal broadsides in the feminism of the 1960s and 1970s marking the rise of a radical feminist movement that changed the context for women’s lives across Europe. Inge Dahlsgaard’s assessment of the movement in Denmark is tangible evidence of the widespread character of action and ‘consciousness raising’, which figured throughout Europe. The scene in Western Europe was significantly different from Eastern Europe, as the impact of communism defused feminism. Thus the Lila manifesto of East German feminists marks the end of the so-called ‘iron curtain’ and challenges the form of ‘socialist feminism’ applied in the DDR.
