Zoë Fairbairns
 

Non-fiction

Contributions to non-fiction books

"Study War No More" in The CND Story London: Allison & Busby, 1983

"Taking it Personally" in Peace Moves: Nuclear Protest in the 1980s London: Chatto & Windus 1984

"The Cohabitation Rule: Why It Makes Sense" in Women and Social Policy. London: Macmillan, 1985

Interview with Marjorie Barnard in Writing Lives - Conversations between Women Writers London: Virago, 1988

"Teaching Creative Writing" in Dialogue and Difference: English into the Nineties,edited by Peter Brooker and Peter Humm. London: Routledge, 1989

"1984 Came And Went" in The Road From George Orwell: His achievement and Legacy edited by Alberto Lazaro. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang AG, 2001

"On Not Writing" in Engendering Realism and Postmodernism: Contemporary Women Writers in Britain edited Beate Numeier. Amsterdam and New York: Editions Rodopi, 2001

"Saying What We Want: Women's Liberation and the Seven Demands" in The Feminist Seventies. York, Raw Nerve Books, 2003

“Is Time On My Side?” in Desire, edited by Lisa Solod Warren. Seal Press, 2007

Pamphlets

book iconStudy War No More - Military Research in British Universities (CND, 1974)

book iconWomen's Studies in British Universities (editor) (The London Seminars, 1977)

book iconNo Place to Grow Up (with Jim Wintour) (Shelter, 1977)

cover SAYING WHAT WE WANTbook iconSaying What We Want: Women's Demands in the Feminist Seventies and Now (with Helen Graham, Ali Neilson, Emma Robertson and Ann Kaloski). Raw Nerve, 2002

This pamphlet looks at the Women's Liberation Movement of the 1970s, and the Seven Demands upon which British feminists - for a while - agreed.

 

If the word 'feminist' has any meaning, it has to incorporate a belief that there is such a thing as sexual politics, a power struggle between men as men, and women as women. The Seven Demands identified the points of political friction and conflict, and possible directions for feminist political creativity. They are certainly not reformist. If you think they are, take another look at them and try to imagine a world - or even just a small part of the world - in which they have all been fulfilled. Would it be a world that you would recognise? Or would it be one in which a revolution had occurred

The Seven Demands (agreed at the National Women's Liberation Conference held in Birmingham in 1978)

  • Equal pay for equal work
  • Equal education and job opportunities
  • Free contraception and abortion on demand
  • Free 24-hour community-controlled childcare
  • Legal and financial independence for women
  • An end to discrimination against lesbians
  • Freedom for all women from intimidation by the threat or use of male violence. An end to the laws, assumptions and institutions which perpetuate male dominance and men's aggression towards women

 

For more information, go to http://www.rawnervebooks.co.uk/sayingwhatwewant.html

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