Shrew was an influential feminist magazine of the early years of the British women’s liberation movement (Bouchier 1983, 58). It acted as the outward-facing publication of the London Women’s Liberation Workshop – the umbrella organisation that co-ordinated small women’s groups across London, formed in 1969.

The June 1971 issue of ‘Shrew’ published interviews with a sample of housewives that suggested many women were unaffected by feminist literature and indeed by the Women’s Liberation Movement as a whole.

Magazine of the Women's Liberation Workshop. 23 issues, incomplete. Including headline articles on: industrial relations; childcare; contraception; the family; the notion of sisterhood; the night cleaners campaign (special issue 1971); matriarchy; feminism and nonviolence.

Aug 5, 2022 · In format and content, Spare Rib crossed boundaries between magazines that focused on home, beauty and lifestyle, such as Woman’s Own, and more overtly political, grass-roots movement media, such...

Women’s Movement magazines are the magazines produced by women who campaigned for equality during the 1970s and 1980s. We are looking at a range of magazines, from the early issues of Shrew (1969-78), to…

Jan 26, 2024 · Then, like many of the London WLM groups we produced a copy of Shrew, the magazine produced in turn by each group, which was then sold throughout the WLM. We worked together writing articles, doing the layout, typing it onto Gestetner ‘skins’ and printing it.

May 11, 2017 · Reading Shrew magazine as it mediated the Miss World protests of 1969 and 1970 reveals the multiple, contingent and complex feminisms underpinning activism. Exploring the debates within the pages of Shrew makes visible a critique of white hegemonic femininity, as well as a constant critical interrogation and testing of feminist ideas and practices.

Jun 12, 2020 · In 1977, the London Matriarchy Study Group produced a special issue of the British WLM Shrew magazine, which they titled Goddess Shrew. A small notice regarding its publication was printed in The Guardian, with Long’s address, who received more than 500 letters from women over the following fortnight asking for copies of the issue.

Mar 6, 2020 · The Peckham Rye group were one of four London groups who rotated the editing/production of the women's liberation magazine Shrew, set up in 1969 (see Bazin, reference below).

Cover of Shrew magazine from 1971, one of the earliest Women's Liberation Movement magazines, which Deborah Checkland acquired when active in the WLM in Wales in the early 1970s. Available as part of AMC / WAW Collection in West Glamorgan Archives, Swansea WAW1