ABSTRACT
The first Campaign Against Pornography (CAP) eonference took place in November 1989, shortly after the launch of Off the Shelf, CAP’s campaign to get W.H.Smith to stop stocking soft-porn magazines on its top shelf. The conference, entitled ‘Pornography and Sexual Violence’ had been planned for over a year, was massively oversubscribed and a 1990 repeat was planned. It was part of a programme of action between November 1989 and April 1990 which included a speaking tour and regional training events in February— sessions for activists on winning the arguments against pornography—and a national day of action on International Women’s Day. The November conference took place at Nottingham Polytechnic Students Union; students were much in evidence though the Townswomen’s Guild, which took part in the London press launch of Off the Shelf, was nowhere to be seen.
