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D-M Withers, « Knowledge Trouble – Practice, Theory and Anxiety in late 1970s Feminist Movements », German Historical Institute London Blog, ID : 10670/1.dc77aj
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The British Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the late 1970s was marked by intense anxiety and discussion about the status of ‘theory’. At their last national conference held in Birmingham in 1978, the WLM buckled under the weight of a decade of collectively generated, epistemic and ideological complexity, cut across by social divisions of race, sexuality and class. In the aftermath, a radical feminist day workshop was held at the White Lion Free School, London, in April 1979, partly ‘out ...