George Stevenson's new book is a significant addition to the growing body of literature seeking to unravel the tangled origin stories, history, and demise of the Women's Liberation Movement (WLM) in Britain. Since the publication in 1982 of Anna Coote and Beatrix Campbell's Sweet Freedom: The Struggle for Women's Liberation, the intersections and tensions between class, race, and gender, alongside a focus on metropolis versus local activism, have fashioned and refashioned the telling of this important chapter in the history of female activism. These histories include Sarah Browne's The Women's Liberation Movement in Scotland (2014), Natalie Thomlinson's Race and Ethnicity in the Women's Movement in England 1968 to 1993 (2016), and Margaretta Jolly's Sisterhood and After: An Oral History of the UK Women's Liberation Movement, 1968–Present (2019).
Stevenson's original contribution to this rich historiography is to foreground the experiences of working-class women active in the WLM and the importance...
