"Equal pay for women and Tories Out!": The Women's Movement in Merseyside, c.1968-1990

《我的博士》是一个重要的恢复项目，重点关注默西塞德妇女解放运动从20世纪60年代末的概念到90年代的灭亡，结合被忽视的档案材料、当地女权主义印刷文化和原始口述历史采访作为主要来源基础。该项目旨在探索英国妇女解放运动中地方和国家之间的复杂动态，为我们理解女权主义和社会主义运动以及这一时期利物浦和英国妇女更广泛的激进和社区激进主义做出重大贡献。我的研究旨在证明地方和地区背景在塑造女权主义身份和优先事项方面的重要性，强调对该地区妇女行动主义的叙述比以前记录的更加复杂和多样化。我的研究挑战了1978年后更广泛的女权运动的发展和所谓的衰落的观点，也质疑了女权主义激进主义是如何适应不断变化的政治气候，并在20世纪80年代以多种不同形式蓬勃发展的，从而增加了对激进主义者“死后”的新研究。考虑到利物浦独特的政治格局，以及这段时期社会主义、女权主义和反种族主义政治之间的密切关系，绘制出默西塞德妇女运动在这一后期的发展和适应情况，也让我的研究能够讲述英国左翼更广泛的历史。这也寻求对WLM中长期被忽视的阶级和种族问题的新研究做出重大贡献。

My PhD is an important recovery project that focuses on the Merseyside Women's Liberation Movement from its conception in the late 1960s to its demise in the 1990s, combining neglected archival material, local feminist print cultures, and original oral history interviews as its primary source base. The project aims to explore the complex dynamic between the local and national within the British Women's Liberation Movement, making a significant contribution to our understanding of feminist and socialist movements as well as women's wider radical and community activism in Liverpool and Britain during this period. My research aims to demonstrate the importance of local and regional context in shaping feminist identities and priorities, highlighting a more complex and diverse narrative of women's activism in the regions than was previously recorded. Challenging ideas about the development and supposed decline of the wider WLM after 1978, my research also questions how feminist activism adapted to changing political climates and flourished in many different forms into the 1980s, adding to new research on activist 'afterlives'. Charting the development and adaptation of the Merseyside women's movement into this later period also allows my research to speak to wider histories of the British Left, considering Liverpool's unique political landscape and the strong relationship between socialist, feminist and anti-racist politics during this time. This also seeks to make a significant contribution to new research on the long-ignored issues of class and race in the WLM.