The radical periodical has been fighting for feminism since 1972 – and now it’s as relevant as it ever was
issues, more familiar now, included battered wives, female genital mutilation and sex trafficking. Twenty thousand “blood and bone” letters poured in from readers. Dewart Bell said: “My mother …felt … that [At first, the image of the target Ms consumer was of a chain-smoking, booze-swilling libertinewas criticised for being too white, too elitist too hierarchical, too run by committee, too bland and too radical.
So, what now? In the US, the supreme court’s decision and its consequences have set alight the women’s protest movement again. Here, arguably, much of the movement has become professionalised, salaried, subdued. In the bookDavina James-Hanman makes some telling points. “Are we heading in the right direction or simply ending up in a cul de sac?” she asks.
But what kind of a future? Partly what the past 50 years has shown is the fragility of progress. The danger comes not just from reactionary forces but also because for some UK women’s organisations on the frontline, the collective anger and radicalism that is the pilot light of any revolution is too easily extinguished by the exhausting and divisive fight for funding, contracts and survival.
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