Lucy Delap (University of Cambridge) and Kristina Schulz (University of Bern) 

Date: 9th December 2010, 10 am – 4 pm
Venue: St Catharine’s College, Cambridge
The workshop will be an informal, work in progress seminar to discuss the British and continental European women’s movements in the 1970s, in a comparative and transnational perspective.
Programme

10 am Welcome
10.15 – 10.45 Kristina Schulz (Clare Hall/Centre for Gender Studies): “Researching the Women’s Movement, an introduction”
10.45-11.15 Leena Schmitter (University of Bern): “Maternity without Coercion. The Women’s Liberation Movement and Reproductive Rights in Switzerland”
11.15-12 noon Coffee and discussion
12-12.30 Freya Johnson Ross (University of Sussex): “Sisterhood or Structurelessness? Shifting Organisation in the UK Women’s Liberation Movement”
Lunch 12.30-1.30
1.30-2.00 Kathryn Telling (University of Nottingham) “Rosi Braidotti on Mary Daly: a European response to “essentialism” in the American second wave”
2.00-2.30 Natalie Thomlinson (University of Cambridge): “The colour of feminism: White feminists and ‘race’ in England, c.1960-1980”
2.30-3.00 pm Tea and discussion
3.00-3.30  Sarah Kiani (University of Bern): “What equality means: women’s movement and the campaign for equality in Switzerland in the 1980?s”
3.30-4.00pm Discussion
To register, please contact Lucy Delap on lmd11@cam.ac.uk