8.45-9.15
registration and coffee
9.15-10.15
OPENING PLENARY
Mary Eagleton Re-reading the Seventies: Re-reading Women's Silence
10.25-11.55
PARALLEL SESSIONS ONE
SESSION A

Ros Brunt and Jenny Wolmark
Politics, pleasure and pain in the 70s

Helen Graham
'Being' a feminist: Political Subjectivity and the early days of the Women's Liberation Movement

Margaretta Jolly
Writing the web: Letters from the women's peace movement

chair:
Margaret Beetham

SESSION B

Emma Webb
Confessional Sins and Postmodern Practice: Re-Reading Marie Cardinal and Annie Leclerc

Yvonne Keller
Revolution and Assimilation: The Cultural Work of U.S. 1970s Lesbian Fiction

Yolanda Morato
Denise Levertov: the Aesthetics of Politics in a Transcultural Experience

chair: Sarah Edwards

SESSION C

Kester Aspden
Women against Male Violence in West Yorkshire

Marianne Hester
Revisiting Millett's Sexual Politics

Eve Setch
Women's Liberation and Anti-violence organisation

chair:
Mary Holmes

SESSION D

Anna Krugovoy Silver
The Cyborg Mystique: The Stepford Wives and Second Wave Feminism

Natasha Zaretsky
Feminism, Narcissism, and Anti-Natalism in the 1970s

Imogen Tyler
The ME Decade: Gender and narcissism in the late Seventies the beat that goes . . . Me . . . Me . . . Me . . . Me . . .

chair: Judy Giles

WORKSHOP
10.30-11.30

Mary Joannou
Revisiting the Best-Selling Confessional Novels of the 1970s

 
coffee
12.10-1.10
PARALLEL SESSIONS TWO
SESSION A

Mary Holmes
How to cope with having changed the world: Personal and structural accounts of seventies feminism

Imelda Whelehan
This Book Changes Lives: The legacy of the "Consciousness Raising" Novel

chair:
Ali Neilson

SESSION B

Nicole Westmarland
'Is it just me?' Second-wave feminism and agony aunt advice in women's magazines

Diane Speier
Birth in the 1970s, and beyond ...

chair: Emma Webb

SESSION C

Avril Rolph
Not just the miners' strike - the Women's Liberation Movement in South Wales

Sandra Adickes and Ruth Cowan
The Women's Movement of the 1970s as a catalyst for feminist action today

chair: Rosie Ilett

SESSION D

Paulina Palmer
Custody Problems and Contrdictions: Representation sof lesbian motherhood in the fiction of the 1970s.

Stevi Jackson and Sue Scott
Whatever happened to feminist critiques of monogamy?

chair:
Margaretta Jolly

WORKSHOP

Laura Potts, Jane Watts and Dena Attar
Reviving and Revisiting Consciousness-Raising as Feminist Practice