Having been through
women's lib in the 1960s, I couldn't have imagined that in 2002 we'd be watching something as old-fashioned and cheesy as that.
Ruby reckons Pamela is the sole reason
women's lib is falling back into the slime.
Although she has chalked herself up a first, both for herself and for woman's rights, Dr Rickards, married with a 12-year-old son, does not hold a particular brief for
women's lib.
DESPITE the best efforts of the champions of
women's lib, the ladies are nonetheless finding life difficult.
It began in 1935, long before
Women's Lib. A young woman wrote to the magazine Nursery World, describing her sense of isolation, with no near neighbours and very little money.
But the near hysteria generated by the
women's lib movement has loaded the dice against men when a relationship breaks up.
That's been a very, very undesirable consequence of
Women's Lib. It wasn't what we thought about when we thought of
Women's Lib all those years ago.'
And there was me thinking
Women's Lib was about the symbolic burning of bras, not their removal by a lecherous looking Sid James.
Women's Lib still has some battles to fight in the fields of equal opportunity and domestic violence, but we have come a long way, and the majority of men have adjusted to the Velvet Revolution with good grace.
THERE was no sign of
women's lib in Going Native (C4) which saw a family swap their London house for a homestead in Swaziland.
Thirty years ago, when
Women's Lib was arguing against sexism, there was a useful slogan from World War I, which we used for consciousness-raising.
...marching from Hyde Park to Downing Street with 4,000 other women in the UK's biggest ever
women's lib demo.
women's lib - the movement aimed at equal rights for women