Women's Liberation
Why and how did this group form?
The first Women's Liberation Conference took place in Britain, during 1970, at Ruskin College. Also in 1970, Australian feminist Germaine Greer published her book,The Female Eunuch. As well as all that, in 1970, Sisterhood Is Powerful, An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement edited by the American feminist Robin Morgan, was published. And the year after all that (1971) the first women’s liberation march occured.
The theory of radical feminism in the United States developed as the opposite of the women's liberation movement. Within groups such as New York Radical Women(1967–1969), which Ellen Willis thought of as "the first women's liberation group in New York City", a radical feminist theory began to emerge that declared that "the personal is political" and "sisterhood is powerful", formulations that arose from these sessions.